MDD Student’s Journey from the Master’s Program to PhD Student at VCU

The field of pharmacy is constantly evolving and changing, with many new career paths opening up for pharmacists beyond conventional roles. Dalia Al Saeedy, a PharmD graduate from Gulf Medical University (GMU), decided to pursue a career in research and academia. During her time at GMU, Dalia explored multiple areas of pharmacy practice by training [...]

In April, 8-13, 2022, and after two years of being conducted online, the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) organized its 115th annual meeting in Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, LA, USA. Several thousands of cancer research interested scientists attended and presented in the biggest cancer research conference Worldwide. Two Master of Drug [...]

On Tuesday, April 12th, the Master of Science in Drug Discovery and Development seminar series and the department of pharmaceutical sciences had Dr. Samar Mowafy as the speaker for the talk. Dr. Samar is currently an assistant professor at the pharmaceutical chemistry department, Misr International University in Egypt. She was previously a postdoctoral fellow at [...]

On Tuesday March 22nd, the College of Pharmacy and the master in drug discovery and development seminar series had Dr. Nadine Hosiny as the speaker for the joint event. Dr. Nadine is Postdoctoral Associate, Biology Department, School of Sciences, New York University in Abu Dhabi  (NYUAD). Currently, Dr. Nadine research focuses on stem cell reprogramming [...]

On Tuesday March 8th, the master in drug discovery and development seminar series had Dr. Amr Sonousi as the speaker for the event. Dr. Sonousi’s research interest is the development of improved antibiotics for the treatment of multi-drug resistant infectious diseases. He has published five research articles in prestigious journals and had two patents. Dr. [...]

On Tuesday March 1st, the College of Pharmacy and the master in drug discovery and development seminar series had Dr. Ahmed Fouda as the speaker for the joint event. Dr. Fouda is Adjunct assistant professor, South University, USA, MTM pharmacist, Aspen RX, USA, and a Pharmacy leader, Riteaid Co, USA. Dr. Ahmed Fouda is an [...]

On February 22nd-24th 2022, Postgraduate and undergraduate students of college of pharmacy, Gulf Medical University have presented 16 research projects in the annual meeting of Dubai Pharmacy and Technology conference (DUPHAT-2022) at Dubai World Trade Center.  The posters are the reflection of the students’ scholarly activity in their postgraduate theses work as well as the [...]

On Tuesday, February 15, 2022 the college of pharmacy hosted a research seminar for the Master of Science in Drug Discovery and Development (MDD) students. The seminar was given by Dr. Mohamed AbouGhaly, Associate Professor of Pharmaceutics and Industrial Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, New Giza University. Dr. AbouGhaly earned his doctoral degree from Cairo University, [...]

On 21st of December 2021, Ms. Sharrol Jasmine, GMU Master of Science in Drug Discovery and Development (MDD) student participated and won best poster presentation in the GMU Research Day. Sharrol presented part of her master’s thesis; Computational Design and Chemical Synthesis of Novel series of Pyrazolo Pyrimidine Derivatives as EGFR Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors. Sharrol’s [...]

On Monday, December 13th, the College of Pharmacy had a joint seminar between the college faculty research seminar and the master in drug discovery and development (MDD) seminar series. The talk was given by Dr. Muhammad Adbullatif, Associate Professor of Pharmacology & Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University. Dr. Muhammad gave a talk titled “Towards [...]