Curriculum Vitae

Rana M. Qasaymeh

 

Personal Information

Rana Mohammad Qasaymeh

Address: Irbid- Jordan

E-mail: ranaqasaymeh@just.edu.jo

 

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

 

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

 

 

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)

 

Other skills:

 

 

Good experience in data processing and analysis using the following software’s: Chemdraw, Drug Discovery Studio, Autodock Vina, MNOVA and GraphPad Prism

 

 

Professional Membership

 

 

Member of Jordanian Pharmaceutical Association (2002-present)

Member of Phytochemical Society of Europe (PSE) (2018-present)

 

 

 

Conferences Attended

 

 

  • Phytochemical Society of Europe’s Young Scientists’ Meeting on Advances in Phytochemical Analysis (Trends in Natural Products Research), Liverpool (UK) 2018. Presented a Poster and a Best Poster Prize was awarded.

·       The 2nd International Conference on Herbal & Traditional Medicine, Dubai (UAE), 2019. Poster presentation

 

 

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.