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Mounira Hmani Aifa (born 1972) is a Tunisian geneticist, best known for her work in mapping the PRSS56 gene.[1] She has been a recipient of the "Sur les traces de Marie Curie" award from UNESCO and the L'Oreal Foundation in 2012, and a fellowship from them in 2002.
Aifa is from Sfax, in Tunisia, and currently teaches and researches at the Sfax Biotechnology Center.[1] In 2002, she won the L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award, which allowed her to pursue post-graduate research in human genetics at the Faculty of Medical Sciences in Linköping, Sweden.[2] She continued this research in Tunisia, working on a project which studied the genetic origins of hereditary deafness.[2] She also pursued research on posterior microphthalmia, a rare genetic condition affecting the eye, for which she mapped the PRSS56 gene, and established its potential links with a type of glaucoma.[3][4] In 2012, she was awarded the "Sur les traces de Marie Curie" from UNESCO and the L'Oreal Foundation for this research.[5]
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