Dr. Islam M. Saadeldin is an Associate Professor at King Saud University, Saudi Arabia and adjunct associate professor at Zagazig University, Egypt. He received his Ph.D. degree from Seoul National University, South Korea in 2012. He was a visiting scholar at Niigata University, Japan (2008), and also served as a post-doc fellow at Seoul National University, South Korea (2013-2014). He has been awarded the Asian Universities Alliance (AUA) Scholar Award and a visiting professorship to Seoul National University, South Korea in 2019.

He has a patent of invention (The Korean Intellectual Property Office) regarding embryo transgenesis through piggyback transposons. He has authored more than 80 SCI/SCIE papers covering the fields of advanced biotechnology such as somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), therapeutic cloning, genome editing, transgenesis, assisted reproductive techniques (ARTs), adult stem cells, and embryonic stem cells, as well as elucidating the roles of exosomes in pathophysiology and embryonic-maternal crosstalk. In addition, he focuses on comparative cellular defence against extreme hyperthermia, and the relation with cellular anastasis, and cellular resilience. He serves as an Editorial board member of various journals and an associate editor and associate editor for various journals.