Auteur: Amani S. Awaad

Dr. Amani Shafiq Awaad was born on 25th August in 1963 in Cairo, Egypt. She completed her B.Sc and M. Sc in Pharmaceutical Science from the College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh and Ph.D. in Pharmacognosy from College of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Cairo in 1995. She started her professional career as Assistant Researcher of Pharmacognosy (1994-1996 & 1999-2001) and worked as Head of Natural Products Unit (2000-2006) at the Aromatic and Medicinal Plants Department, Desert Research Centre, Cairo. She also worked as Post Doctoral Researcher (1997-1998) at School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Science, Portsmouth University, U.K. and Post Doctoral Associate Professor (2003-2004) at Bradford University, U.K. in between. She has been working as Professor of Pharmacognosy since 2006 at Chemistry Department, Faculty of Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. She has been actively involved in Teaching and Research Guidance of students. She has handled several research projects. She is serving as Member of several important committees of the University and referee/editor for many journals of repute. She is also a member of several Professional Societies at National and International level. She is widely traveled and has attended several International Conferences. She has more than 30 research papers published in research journals of national and international repute and two technical bulletins to her credit. She has received several national and international awards for outstanding contribution in the field Aromatic and Medicinal Plants.