14th World Congress on Chemistry
Barcelona, Spain
Shaymaa E. Kassab
Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
Biography
Kassab is currently Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at Faculty of Pharmacy-Damanhour University. In 2014, she joined a research group at the University of Maryland in Baltimore in the USA as a research fellow via a personal grant and patented a compound of therapeutic value against B call lymphoma. In 2016, she went back to USA as a research fellow at top universities there, Virginia Commonwealth and Texas A&M to learn and get trained on advanced research instruments and join research projects targeting neurological disorders. Her publications are in Q1-lead-international journals and specialized in Medicinal Chemistry and drug discovery. She focuses on designing novel compounds and developing others to be with minimized adverse effects and is selectively acting against the biological targets. She is a reviewer for Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry and ACS Omega.