Theodore Bilharz (born in 1825 - died in 1852 of the Typhus, contracted during a forwarding with Massawah with the Duke of Saxony-Coburg-Gotha, is a German parasitologist trained with the Université of Tübingen. It left its name to a parasitosis engraves, endemic in Egypt, the schistosomase or Bilharziose.

It is in 1851, whereas he worked at the hospital Kasr el Aini with the Cairo, that he discovered the Distomum haematobium , called Schistosoma haematobium later, a parasitic worm which settles in the blood-vessels of the internal bodies where they can survive from twenty to thirty years, highlighted during the construction of the Suez Canal.

In 1960, professor Dr. Ahmed Hafez Mousa decides to create an research institute on tropical medicines. Two years later, the Theodor Bilharz Research Institute (TBRI) is inaugurated with Gizeh, becoming one of the most famous hospitals of the world specialized in the fight against the endemic diseases, in particular the Bilharziose and its consequences, the parasitic and viral diseases which accompany it.