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Mohammad Kamal , PhD
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Affiliation(s):
King Fahd Medical Research Center; King Abdulaziz University; Saudi Arabia
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Areas of Interest:
neuroscience research (neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer & Parkinson) type 2 diabetes mellitus and cancer
Biography & Research:
Dr. Mohammad Amjad Kamal is a Distinguished Adjunct Professor at the King Fahd Medical Research Center (KFMRC), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where he was full Professor from March 2011 to March 2013. He is leading a highly productive global collaborative research team based from Novel Global Community Educational Foundation (NGCEF). Dr. Kamal's biochemical research in the field of Alzheimer’s disease, Type 2 diabetes and leukemia has culminated in more than 320 publications in internationally respected journals, and 65 abstracts at international conferences.
Dr. Kamal migrated to Australia in 1998 and was awarded a prestigious U2000 Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2000 by the University of Sydney, School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences. This three years highly competitive award funded his research on the "Inhibition of amido phosphoribosyltransferase by new antifolates: Design and mechanism of action of purine antagonists". Amongst numerous projects, Dr. Kamal also collaborated on the molecular biological research project “Linkage of Alzheimer’s disease and Type 2 diabetes” at the University of Technology, Sydney - the commonalities underpinning these two disorders that impact a huge proportion of the world population remain an area of his current scientific focus.
He established his research group, the "Fundamental and Applied Biology Group" for advancing the medical scientific research at KFMRC (March 2011 to Nov 2013). He was selected as a scientific member to Chair the "Yousef Abdul Latif Jameel Therapeutic Applications in the Prophet's medicine". Moreover, he is serving as external examiner for PhD thesis evaluation of various universities and as an EiC/regional/editorial member/guest editor of several reputed scientific journals on an honorable basis.