College of Pharmacy Faculty Research Seminar by Dr. Eslam Mohamed

On Tuesday, October 12th, the college of pharmacy hosted a research webinar by Dr. Eslam Mohamed, Assistant professor of Immunology at California Northstate University, CA, USA. Dr. Eslam earned his Ph.D. degree in the field of immunology and immunological programming, from the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, GA, USA in 2016. Afterwards, Dr. Mohamed [...]

Between July 31st and August 5th, 2021, Ms. Dalia Al Saeedy, Master of Science in Drug Discovery and Development (MDD) student, traveled to Cairo, Egypt and worked with NAWAH Scientific, one of the partners of Gulf Medical University, College of Pharmacy. She had the opportunity to complete part of her own thesis work and underwent [...]

On July 28th, 2021, Master of Science in Drug Discovery and Development (MDD) students, Ms. Reham Khaled Abu Hijjleh and Mr. Samiullah Shabbir published an article in PeerJ Life & Environment Journal with their supervisor (Dr. Ahmed Al Abd). The publication is a collaborative work with students from the PharmD program (Ms. Nada Jiaan & Ms. Shahad [...]

On Tuesday, July 6th, the first-year Master in Drug Discovery and Development students presented their research proposals as part of the Directed Research course, which is considered the first part of the approval process of their research proposals. The meeting had all the MDD and pharmaceutical sciences department faculty with their wide range of experiences [...]

On June 18th, 2021, a group of students from the Master of Science in Drug Discovery and Development (MDD) had an online meeting with the Chair of Pharmacology & Toxicology department, College of Pharmacy, University of Arizona (UoA), Professor Xinxin Ding. During the session, our students presented an overview of their current research projects in [...]

The College of Pharmacy, Gulf Medical University, had its 2nd joint symposium with the College of Pharmacy, University of Arizona. The joint symposium was conducted over two days on Wednesday and Thursday, June 2nd and 3rd, 2021. Faculty members and students from both colleges were among the attendees, with six research presentations by faculty members [...]

On May 18th, 2021, a group of students from the Master of Science in Drug Discovery and Development has received a training on Reverse Transcription Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-qPCR) as a part of their course on Pharmacogenetics and Pharmacogenomics. The training session was conducted under the guidance of Dr. Raefa Abou Khouzam, Assistant Professor [...]

On 18th April 2021, Dr. Khaled Barakat, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Alberta, Canada, engaged with the master in drug discovery and development students in a lecture on “Introduction to Molecular Dynamics Simulation” as part of the ongoing Drug Design course. During the session, Dr. Barakat introduced the concept of [...]

On April 12, GMU Master in Sciences of Drug Discovery and Development, Reham Abu Hijjleh, participated in the 4th AUE Student Research Competition with a project titled “Evaluation of Anticancer Properties of the Marine Secondary Metabolite Terrein Under Various Microenvironmental Conditions.” Ms. Reham explained the rationale behind the project and its impact as literature is [...]

On April 7th, 2021, Mr. Samiullah Shabbir, Master of Science in Drug Discovery and Development student, and Teaching Assistant, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, GMU participated in DUPHAT 2021, by professional poster “Analyzing the pathophysiological impact of several programmed cell death mechanisms on cancer cells: apoptosis, autophagy, methuosis, ferroptosis and lysosomal permeabilization”.  The [...]