Dr Ghafourian is a Pharm.D. and has a PhD in pharmaceutical sciences from Liverpool John Moores University (UK, 1997), with a research focus on drug design and discovery. Her work includes the prediction of pharmacological and toxicological properties of drug candidates. She uses in vitro methods such as mitochondrial respiration, and computer-based modeling, including machine learning and molecular modeling for molecular medicine as well as drug delivery research. She is an associate professor of Pharmacology at the Barry and Judy Silverman College of Pharmacy, NSU. She is also the Associate Editor of Springer’s Molecular Diversity. Before joining NSU, she held faculty positions at various prestigious universities in the United Kingdom since 2001, including the University of Kent (11 years), the University of Sussex (5 years), and the University of Bedfordshire (2 years). She has many scientific publications including 95 research papers and book chapters, and supervised many PhD and Pharm.D. students and led various research projects.
Dr Ghafourian is a Pharm.D. and has a PhD in pharmaceutical sciences from Liverpool John Moores University (UK, 1997), with a research focus on drug design and discovery. Her work includes the prediction of pharmacological and toxicological properties of drug candidates. She uses in vitro methods such as mitochondrial respiration, and computer-based modeling, including machine learning and molecular modeling for molecular medicine as well as drug delivery research. She is an associate professor of Pharmacology at the Barry and Judy Silverman College of Pharmacy, NSU. She is also the Associate Editor of Springer’s Molecular Diversity. Before joining NSU, she held faculty positions at various prestigious universities in the United Kingdom since 2001, including the University of Kent (11 years), the University of Sussex (5 years), and the University of Bedfordshire (2 years). She has many scientific publications including 95 research papers and book chapters, and supervised many PhD and Pharm.D. students and led various research projects.