Biography

Dr Amany Kamel is a Professor of Pharmaceutics & Industrial Pharmacy and the Vice President of Ain Shams University for Graduate Studies and Research. She was the former Dean of Faculty of Pharmacy, Ain Shams University. She is a Pharmaceutical Scientist with more than twenty years of academic and industrial experience in pharmaceutical technology and nanomedicine. She was a Visiting Professor at School of Pharmacy University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada for four years where she Led a large research team in cooperation with Professor Shawn Wettig. She has various administrative experiences, she was the Vice Dean for Students and Academic Affairs, Vice Dean for Community Services and Environmental Development, and Head of the Department of Pharmaceutics and Industrial Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ain Shams University. She was the general secretary of the supreme committee for supervising the compulsory training (Internship) for pharmacists.

She supervised many graduate students in Ain Shams University and Waterloo University, Canada. She has published book chapters and many international publications in highly prestigious journals and participated in many national and international conferences. She is a member of many prestigious scientific societies like the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS), and the American Nano Society. She is a member of board of directors of the Egyptian Drug Authority and a member of the Committee for drafting the Egyptian Pharmacopoeia - Egyptian Drug Authority (EDA). She is a member of board of directors and consultant in several pharmaceutical companies. Her research focuses on nanotechnology and drug delivery; gene therapy; design of ligand-directed active tumor-targeted polymeric nanoparticles; design of intelligent nanotechnology-based drug delivery systems for cancer treatment; design of inhalable nanocomposites for enhanced pulmonary targeting; small particle formation and microencapsulation; kinetics and mechanisms of drug release from small particle systems, emulsions, multiple emulsions, vesicles, biocompatible matrices; pharmacokinetics and bioavailability of different drug products.