Suher Zada is a professor of biology and immunology at The American University in Cairo. Zada has over 50 years of academic, administrative and research experience, both in Egypt and abroad. She is keen towards understanding and solving problems related to the immune system like infectious diseases with common public health threats in Egypt and worldwide using advanced and new research techniques in biotechnology, nanotechnology and computational studies. Before joining AUC, Zada was appointedto the Zoology Department, Faculty of Science at Cairo University to teach science and pre-medical students in 1965. She became a professor of immunology and embryology in 1989. She was a part-time faculty member at AUC from 1991 to 1998, when she was asked to come aboard as a full-time professior to help develop the biology major at AUC. The program has flourished, with the first students graduating in 2000. Zada became a tenured professor in 2004 and served as chair of the Department of Biology from the time it was founded (2004-2006).

Immunology - Infectious Diseases - Cancer Research Nanocarriers - Drug Delivery,  Use of bio-nanotechnology for improving the currently available therapeutics through the design and development of smart drug delivery systems "DDS" for targeting and treating of epidemic infectious parasitic diseases, the hepatitis C virus and different types of cancer,  Vaccines - microRNAs Use of biotechnology and bioinformatics for the discovery and validation of new therapeutics "specifically RNA interference (RNAi)-based strategies" and vaccines for treatment of such diseases, Cellular and Molecular Embryology - Developmental and Comparative Immunology