Dr. Khaled Abouzid is a Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ain Shams University, Prominent Scholar in Drug Discovery, Co-founding Director of Center of Drug Discovery and Development Research ASU He was nominated as the Acting Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Sadat City from 8-2018 to 8-2022. He is currently a member of national pharmaceutical chemistry promotion committee
Dr. Abouzid’s research is directed towards drug discovery of bioactive small molecules with special emphasis on cannabinoids, targeted anticancer, anti-inflammatory, anti-viral anti-microbial agents and enzyme inhibitors. He has published over 150 research papers, two books and filed 14 patents in medicinal chemistry. He has Scopus H index of 28. He has supervised over 100 Master and PhD students in 7 universities. Dr Abouzid has research collaborations with German, British, Swedish, Canadian and US universities. He has also organized and presided over 34 international symposia and conferences.
Dr. Abouzid obtained his B.Sc. degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Cairo University in 1985, and his PhD. joint degree in Organic Chemistry from the Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University and School of Pharmacy University of Connecticut, USA.
Dr. Abouzid started his career in 1995 as a lecturer of Organic Chemistry at Cairo University, Faculty of Pharmacy. In 2001, he moved to the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Ain Shams University, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2003. He did postdoctoral work with Professor Jochen Lehman of the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany.