狠狠撸

Egypt Egypt

Rational Redesign Protein Engineer, Biosynthetic Medicinal Chemistst and Biotechnologist

Education

I have always been fascinated by the way nature morphs simple building blocks to create more complex natural cures. This fascination shaped my career, which started by the isolation, structure elucidation and biological evaluation of various classes of phytochemicals, with the main focus being iridoid glycosides (MSc studies). I then moved on to pursue my D.Phil studies at University of Oxford, where I learned the modern aspects of (b-lactam antibiotics) biosynthesis, molecular biology and enzymology (structural and mechanistic). I almost contributed to every-single project in my research group in Oxford, where the 24-hours of the days were not enough to satisfy my quest. During my D.Phi...