Samar Azab

صورة
Organizations: Universities
Professions: Educator

PERSONAL INFORMATION


Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology

Samar Azab

1977

CONTACT INFORMATION / PRIVATE


Cairo

Egypt

samar_saad_azab@yahoo.com

CONTACT INFORMATION / WORK


Ain Shams University

Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy

Cairo

Egypt

Education


PhD of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ain Shams University - University of Texas Medical Branch (Interior Mission System), 2009.

MSc of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ain Shams University, 2004.

BSc of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ain Shams University, 2000.

 

languages


Arabic

English

French

German

COMPETENCES


Drug Resistance in Human Cancer

Molecular Basis of Cancer Development and Treatment

Gene Therapy

WORK HISTORY


Postdoctoral fellow, Prodrug Department, Klinik fuer Tumorbiologie, Freiburg, Germany, 2010.

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ain Shams University, 2004-2009.

Teaching Assistant, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ain Shams University, 2000-2004.

Productions and Works


"Multi-Drug Resistance as a Problem Challenging Breast Cancer Chemotherapy," in Agressive Breast Cancer ed. by Regina H. DeFrina, pp. 53-100.

"2-Methoxyestradiol Eeverses Doxorubicin Resistance in Human Breast Tumor Xenograft," Cancer Chemother Pharmacol, 62, no. 5, pp. 893-902, 2008.

"2-Methoxyestradiol and Multidrug Resistance: Can 2-Methoxyestradiol Chemosensitize Resistant Breast Cancer Cells?" Breast Cancer Resistance Treatment 113, no. 1, pp. 9-19, 2008.

"Modulation of Epirubicin Cytotoxicity by Tamoxifen in Human Breast Cancer Cell Lines," Biochemical Pharmacology 70, no. 5, pp. 725-32, 2005.

AWARDS


German Egyptian Research Short Term Scholarship for Postdoctoral Studies in Germany, 2010.

Award of International Publication, Ain Shams University, 2009.

Federation International Pharmaceutical, Congress Travel Grant Award, 2009.