Curriculum
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Rana M. Qasaymeh
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Personal
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Rana Mohammad Qasaymeh Address: Irbid- Jordan E-mail: ranaqasaymeh@just.edu.jo |
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Personal profile |
I
am fascinated by the study of bioactive compounds from natural sources as I
have a strong belief that nature is still an untapped reservoir for novel
structures and lead compounds. My research interests including isolation and structure elucidation
of natural products using chromatography and NMR techniques. Ethnopharmacological investigation of traditional plants
remedies. Evaluation of the cytotoxicity and Immunomodulatory activities of
the medicinal plants extracts and isolated phytochemicals |
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Education |
PhD in Natural Products Chemistry/ Phytochemistry; 2021 Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and
Biomedical Sciences (SIPBS), University of Strathclyde, UK MSc of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy;
2003 Jordan
University of Science & Technology BSc of Pharmacy; 2000 Jordan
University of Science & Technology |
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Professional
Experience |
March 2022 - now Assistant Professor of Natural Products Chemistry/ Drug Discovery
from Natural Sources Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy Jordan University of Science & Technology/ Faculty of
Pharmacy March 2005 to 2017 Full
time lecturer: Jordan
University of Science & Technology/ Faculty
of Pharmacy October 2003 to March 2005: Part-time
lecturer: Jordan
University of Science & Technology/ Faculty
of Pharmacy Teacher assistant and Research work (October,2000- January,2002) |
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Other skills: |
Good experience in data processing
and analysis using the following software’s: Chemdraw,
Drug Discovery Studio, Autodock Vina,
MNOVA and GraphPad Prism |
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Professional
Membership |
Member of Jordanian Pharmaceutical
Association (2002-present) Member of Phytochemical Society of Europe
(PSE) (2018-present) |
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Conferences Attended |
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The
2nd International Conference on Herbal & Traditional Medicine, Dubai
(UAE), 2019. Poster presentation |
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Publications |
1.
Rana M Qasaymeh, Dino Rotondo,
Carel B Oosthuizen, Namrita Lall, Veronique Seidel.
Predictive Binding Affinity of Plant-Derived Natural Products Towards the
Protein Kinase G Enzyme of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MtPknG). Plants (Basel).8, 477, 2019 2.
Feras Q Alali,
Khaled Tawah, Tamam El-Elimat, Rana Qasaymeh, Chen Li, Jason Burgess,
Yuka Nakanishi, David Kroll, Mamsukh Wani, Nicholas H Oberlies,
"Phytochemical studies and cytotoxicity evaluations of Colchicum tunicatum Feinbr and Colchicum hierosolymitanum Feinbr (Colchicaceae): two native Jordanian meadow
saffron.," Nat. Prod. Res., vol. 20, no. 6, pp. 558-566, 2006. 3.
Mohsen S Al-Mahmoud, Feras
Q Alali, Khaled Tawaha, Rana
M Qasaymeh, "Phytochemical study and cytotoxicity evaluation of
Colchicum stevenii Kunth
(Colchicaceae): a
Jordanian meadow saffron.," Nat. Prod. Res., vol. 20, no. 2, pp.
153-160, 2006. 4.
Feras Alali,
Khaled Tawaha, Rana M Qasaymeh,
"Determination of colchicine in Colchicum steveni
and C. hierosolymitanum (Colchicaceae):
comparison between two analytical methods.," Phytochem
Anal, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 27-29, 2004. |
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