Anti-Obesity Drug Development. Physiology, Pharmacology and Drug Delivery

Authors

Fadia Salah Youssef Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacy, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. Dr. Fadia S. Youssef is an Associate Professor at the Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ain Shams University, Egypt since 2019. She was graduated from Faculty of Pharmacy, Ain Shams University in 2004. She received her Masters and PhD degrees from Faculty of Pharmacy, Ain Shams University. She was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship at the Institute of Pharmaceutical Biology and Biotechnology at Heinrich Heine University, D�sseldorf, Germany in 2018. She received the National Encouragement Award offered by the Egyptian Government in 2019. Her current research interests include the isolation of secondary metabolites from natural products as plant species, marine organisms and its associated fungi as well as essential oils extraction and its biological evaluation. Recently, she has been listed among the world's top 2% of most important scientists issued by Stanford University. Mohamed Lotfy Ashour Full Professor, Department of Pharmacy, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. Dr. Mohamed L. Ashour is a full professor of Pharmacognosy at Ain Shams University, Cairo Egypt since 2020. He was graduated at 1996 from Faculty of Pharmacy, Alexandria University and he obtained his Master degree in Pharmacognosy from Department of Pharmacognosy, Ain Shams University, Egypt. He got his PhD on 2010 from Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, Heidelberg University, Germany. His main research interest in medicinal plants with special emphasis on isolation, structure elucidation and biological screening of secondary metabolites from plants and marine organisms. In addition to application of molecular modelling and multivariate analysis in natural products research. He has international collaboration with Saudi Arabia, Germany, Tunisia, Italy, Algeria, Uzbekistan, Morocco, and China.