Nawah Scientific

Nawah Scientific is MENA and Africa's first and largest Cloud Lab, a pioneering contract research organization (CRO) headquartered in Cairo, Egypt. Founded in 2015, the company provides outsourced analytical and R&D services to organizations across the life sciences, pharmaceutical, food and beverage, and agricultural sectors, serving clients in over 30 countries worldwide. Its cloud-based service model allows buyers to submit samples from anywhere in Egypt via scheduled pickup, receive analysis at Nawah's Cairo facility, and collect results through a digital online platform—eliminating the need for clients to own or maintain their own laboratory infrastructure.

Nawah structures its capabilities around three core service pillars. The Life Sciences unit serves basic research, niche science applications, and drug discovery workflows for academic institutions and biotech companies. The Pharmaceutical Industry unit provides end-to-end analytical support, encompassing raw material characterization, finished product testing, method development and validation, stability studies, and compilation of Common Technical Document (CTD) regulatory dossiers for drug registration submissions. The Food and Agriculture unit delivers comprehensive testing from soil and agricultural inputs through finished food and feed products, addressing food safety screening, contaminant identification, and compositional analysis.

The laboratory deploys a broad range of analytical instruments and methods. High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) is the backbone of quantitative analysis at Nawah, used for simultaneous multi-analyte assays with high resolution, sensitivity, and reproducibility across pharmaceutical and food matrices. Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) underpins volatile compound profiling, residual solvent testing, and chromatogram-based identity and purity determinations—a method clients have specifically commended for its precision and professionalism. PCR-based molecular analysis, including TaqMan quantitative PCR, supports identity confirmation, pathogen detection, and genotyping applications. The microbiology department conducts food and feed microbiological testing, water and environmental microbial analysis, and pathogen detection in accordance with national and international standards. Nawah also develops and supplies its own Certified Reference Materials (CRMs) to provide traceability anchors for analytical laboratories across the region.

Nawah Scientific holds ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation granted by the Egyptian Accreditation Council (EGAC) for a broad scope of test methods, including microbiological analysis and methods aligned with Egyptian National Food Safety Authority (NFSA) regulations. The company is the first entity in the Middle East and Africa to achieve ISO 17034 accreditation for the production of Standard Reference Materials (SRMs), a landmark that directly strengthens regional metrological infrastructure. Nawah is additionally the first African entity to receive US FDA accreditation for food analysis, allowing clients who export food products to the United States to use Nawah's test results in support of FDA compliance documentation—a capability of significant commercial value for Egyptian and African food exporters.

The company's primary facility is located at Almokattam, Cairo, Egypt, and operates at the scale required to process over one million samples to date. Following a $23 million Series A funding round closed in December 2025, Nawah has announced plans to expand laboratory operations into Saudi Arabia and additional Egyptian cities, as well as to establish a dedicated R&D hub in Rwanda—a step that will position it as the first distributed pan-African CRO network. This geographic expansion reflects both investor confidence and growing regional demand for accredited contract testing services.

Nawah Scientific's client base exceeds 6,000 companies spanning pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, food manufacturing, agrochemical production, academic research institutions, and government regulatory agencies. Multinational corporations seeking regional testing capacity, SMEs that cannot economically operate their own labs, and export-oriented manufacturers needing internationally recognized test reports all form part of the portfolio. Client testimonials consistently highlight fast turnaround, accurate results, strong scientific communication, and flexibility in handling novel project types including detergent formulation analysis. The company received the Export Category Award at Pharma Awards 2025 by Pharmaconex, recognizing its contribution to pharmaceutical sector exports from Egypt.

With a decade of operation, accreditations spanning ISO 17025, ISO 17034, and US FDA food analysis recognition, instrumentation covering HPLC, GC-MS, qPCR, and microbiology platforms, and a digitally integrated sample management and results delivery system, Nawah Scientific is a credible and capable testing partner for any organization operating in the life sciences, food, agriculture, or pharmaceutical space across the MENA region and Africa. Its unique position as both an accredited testing laboratory and a regional producer of certified reference materials gives it a dual role—serving individual client testing needs while also elevating the quality infrastructure available to the broader regional scientific community.