Chairman of Centre for Drug Discovery Research & Development. Former Vice President for Postgraduate Studies, Research, and International Affairs. Ex. Dean of Faculty of Pharmacy Ain Shams Uni. Consultant of the Minister of Health and Population for Pharmaceutical affairs. Vice Dean for community service and Vice Dean for Postgraduate Studies and Research, and Head of Dept. of Pharmacognosy, Fac. of Pharmacy, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. Ph.D. Phytochemistry and Natural Medicine, Meiji College of Pharmacy, Tokyo, Japan 1995. Academic and Scientific Activities Pharmacognosy, Phytochemistry, Biosynthesis of Natural Products, Phytotherapy, Drug Analysis, Marine Drug Discovery, Nutraceuticals Research Drug discovery from Natural Products: herbal medicine, marines as well as metabolites of endophytic fungi, bacteria, etc., for anti-cancer, anti-platelet aggregations, anti-inflammatory agents, anti-diabetic, neuroprotective hepatoprotective and anti-microbial as well as antiviral effects. 150 international publications, 4 book chapters, supervision on 150 Master's and Ph.D. theses. Awards Awarded State Merit Award 2021 as well as among the 2% best scientists worldwide according to Stanford University’s Statistics 2020 and 2021. Best researcher in MEJIJ PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY, TOKYO, JAPAN (1995). Scopus https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=8706682500 Orchid http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7445-963X dean@pharma.asu.edu.eg