Dr. Amgad Albohy

Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and drug design at Faculty of Pharmacy, the British University in Egypt (BUE)
Dr. Amgad Albohy is an associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and drug design at Faculty of Pharmacy, the British University in Egypt (BUE). He received his PhD in chemistry from the University of Alberta, Canada and was working at the Alberta Glycomics Centre. He was trained in both Friedrich-Schiller University in Germany and the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center (CCRC), University of Georgia, USA. He has extensive teaching and research experience in Germany, Canada, USA, and Egypt. Dr. Albohy is interested in the area of molecular modeling with special focus on molecular docking and dynamics. His research focuses on the design of selective inhibitors among closely related isozymes. He is also interested in protein expression, enzyme assays development and optimization, enzyme kinetics and STD NMR. In addition to his current role at the BUE as an associate professor, he is also the deputy manager of the Drug Research and Development group (DRD-G) and the eLearning coordinator.
“Practical applications of molecular dynamics in the field of drug design and medicinal chemistry”