Sir Magdi Habib Yaqoub, a doctor of cardiac surgery, was born on November 16, 1935, in the Belbeis area of ​​the Sharkia Governorate in Egypt. The family's young aunt Eugenie, who died at the age of 21 due to a narrowing of the heart valve, and this is what prompted him to become a specialist in heart surgery.

He joined the Faculty of Medicine at Cairo University, graduated from it and qualified as a doctor in 1957, he worked as a deputy for surgery at Al-Qasr Al-Ainy, and in 1964 he traveled outside Egypt and began his career in the best and most modern hospitals in Britain, Dr. Magdi Yacoub obtained a royal fellowship from three universities, and in the year 1968 Takes up the position of assistant professor at the University of Chicago.

In 1974, Dr. Yacoub became the first doctor to perform open heart surgery in Nigeria, with the help of a team of eminent surgeons, and in 1980 he headed the Heart Transplant Program at Harefield Hospital in London,He and his team have performed thousands of surgeries, while the total number of heart transplants he has performed in his lifetime is about 2,000.

He was appointed as Professor of Cardiac Surgery at Bromton Hospital in London in 1986 AD, as one of the best cardiologists in the world, Dr. Yacoub developed new and pioneering techniques in the field of heart surgery in patients with heart problems at birth. He then became head of the Heart Transplant Foundation in Britain in 1987 AD, and a professor of cardiothoracic surgery at the University of London. Queen Elizabeth of Britain granted him the title of Sir since 1991.

He has done many studies and research on the engineering of heart valve tissues, the regeneration of the heart muscle, and the manufacture of many new devices to assist the left ventricle, He is the first to invent domino surgery, which involves transplanting the heart and lungs into a patient suffering from lung failure, and has supervised more than 18 doctoral theses in cardiac surgery for graduate students.

Since retiring from his job in 2001, Dr. Yacoub devotes all his time to the charitable organization (Chain of Hope), which he founded in 1995, which cares for children in conflict areas in developing countries who suffer from heart diseases, in addition to practicing surgery in his private clinic in Britain, as well as Worked as a consultant and viewer for organ transplants.

Dr. Magdi Yacoub presented more than 400 scientific researches in heart transplantation, and in his professional life he performed more than 25,000 open heart operations, including more than 2,500 heart transplants or heart and lung transplants. This is the highest number achieved by a heart surgeon in the field of heart transplants in the world He also supervised more than 18 doctoral theses in cardiac surgery and published more than 1,000 scientific articles.

Sir Magdi Yacoub established the Magdi Yacoub Foundation for Free Cardiac Surgery, an Egyptian non-profit organization working in the field of health care. He started the first center in Aswan,He is also the founder and director of the Magdi Yacoub Research Network, which established the Qatar Center for Vascular and Cardiac Research in cooperation with Qatar Foundation and Hamad Al-Tayyibah Foundation.

Sir Magdi Yaqoub received many civil honors such as the title of Knight in 1991, the State Medal of Pakistan, and the Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to medicine, he won the People's Prize in 2000 organized by the BBC, and in 1998 the Texas Heart Institute Award, For scientific achievement in the field of the heart and blood vessels, and the Distinguished Achievement Award in 1999.