Khairia M. Youssef
Future University, Egypt
Biography
Dr. Khairia Youssef is a Professor of Organic Chemistry since 1999. Dr. Khairia had the Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, the Master degree and Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University on 1977, 1980 and 1984, respectively. In 1988, Dr. Khairia was on a special research assignment with Etreby Computer in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. in order to: 1) Assist in the design of a stand alone Drug Interaction query system 2) Practical study in Computer Application in Pharmacy Field. 3) Practical study in Computer and its role in the educational process. In 1992, Dr. Khairia was on a Peace Fellowship for Post Doctoral Research which concerns with "Design and Synthesis of Potential Antileukemic and/or Antiviral 2'-Deoxymethylene Nucleosides" at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California. U.S.A., under the supervision of Dr. Eric J. Lien, Ph. D. The design of the work is based on QSAR. Prof. Dr. Youssef is interested in drug design, synthesis and evaluation of certain pharmacologically active compounds. She published 62 papers in national and international journals. Professor Youssef supervised many researchers and teaching assistants. Professor Youssef published more than 60 publications into National and International Journals in the field of Drug Synthesis. The most recent papers were published between years 2007-2014 while Professor Youssef has been worked at FUE. From time of graduation till now Dr. Khairia taught different undergraduate and post-graduate courses. Prof. Youssef had been awarded the Bronze award from King Abdul Aziz city for science and technology for the exclusive research “Synthesis of Curcumin Analogues as Potential Antioxidant, Cancer Chemopreventive Agents” which had been granted by King Abdul Aziz city for science and technology, Project No. AR 19-39. Prof. Youssef had been awarded a certificate from The Marquis Who's who Publications Board as a subject of biographical record in Who's who in Science and Engineering 2008-2009. Inclusion in which is limited to those individuals who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in their own fields of endeavour and who have, thereby, contributed significantly to the betterment of contemporary society. She had been awarded the silver award from King Abdul Aziz city for science and technology for the exclusive research “Novel Modified Estrogens: Synthesis, Binding Affinity to Estrogen Receptor, Biological and Antitumor Activities of various Novel Modified Estrogen” which had been granted by King Abdul Aziz city for science and technology, Project No. AR 24-4. Prof. Youssef had been awarded the FUE Azazi Award for Outstanding Research for the academic year 2012/2013. This reflects well on the important contributions to the scholarly reputation of FUE. Perzigian, Anthony (perzigaj) PERZIGAJ@UCMAIL.UC.EDU Prof. Youssef as an International Conference Organizer had been awarded a Certificate for Participating as Organizer for the 1st FUE International Conference on Pharmaceutical Technologies (1st FUE-ICPT), Feb, 2012.http://icpt.fue.edu.eg/ Also, Prof. Youssef had been awarded a Certificate for Participating as Organizer for 3rd FUE International Conference of Pharmaceutical Sciences (3rd FUE-ICPS), Feb, 9-11, 2015.
