Dr. Ayman is a Senior Research Associate and “Cell and Tissue Biology Unit” Manager at Aswan Heart Centre – Magdi Yacoub Foundation. He is also an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Science, Cairo University. In 2011, he was granted his master’s degree from the Faculty of Science, Cairo University on Telomerase activity in Human breast cancer biology, and in 2013, he Joined Dr. Torsten Stein Lab at Glasgow University, Scotland, UK, for his PhD studies on Extracellular matrix remodeling in mammary gland and Breast Cancer invasion and metastasis. Dr. Ayman then joined Prof. Magdi Yacoub’s lab in 2016 for his Postdoc studies to investigate Extracellular Matrix remodeling in cardiovascular pathologies in addition to his studies on using patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) as an in vitro model for inherited cardiac conditions such as Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. In 2019, he was awarded a 1yr fellowship at Dr. Heather Machado’s laboratory at the school of Medicine, Tulane University, LA, USA, to train on novel methodologies for ECM studies in biological systems and employ “matrisome” signature in molecular diagnostics. His current research at Aswan Heart Centre focuses on the molecular and cellular mechanisms, and ECM remodeling drivers in cardiac and extra cardiac tissues of Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and Heart Failure, to identify novel and personalized molecular diagnostic tools and therapeutics.