On October 13, 2020 the College of Pharmac Seminar series hosted Dr. Ali El-halawany, Professor of Phytochemistry and Natural Products, Department of Pharmacognosy, Cairo University; and Chief Scientific Officer, NAWAH Scientific, Cairo, Egypt. Prof. El-Halawany’s PhD was from the Institute of Natural Medicine, Toyama University, Toyama, Japan under the Japanese government “Monbukagakusho” scholarship.
He has 2 US-patents for bioactive secondary metabolites from natural resources besides more than 70 publications and two book chapters. The talk was on “Target based lead discovery from natural sources;
HCV protease inhibitors and Estrogen receptor modulators”.
HCV protease inhibitors and Estrogen receptor modulators”.
Dean Sherief Khalifa commented: It was a great pleasure to host professor El-Halawany’s seminar and we look forward to research collaboration between GMU and Cairo University.