Dr. Tamer Essam is the Ministry deputy of Health and Population for Pharmaceutical affairs and a professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University. He is the former head of Central Administration for Pharmaceutical Affairs (CAPA), Ministry of Health and Population. Dr. Tamer graduated from the Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University (2002) and got his PhD from Lund University, Sweden in the field of Biotechnology (2006).