Pharmacology and Biochemistry Department
Pharmacology

Dr. Amany Abd El-Mageed Alzokaky

Current Position | Associate Professor (Acting Head of Department) |
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Major Specialty | Pharmacology |
Full time \ Part Time Delegation \ Appointed | Full Time Delegation |
aalzokaky@horus.edu.eg | |
Faculty Room Number | P304 |
Google Scholar link | https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=UbRYNikAAAAJ |
H-index | 3 |
Total Citations | 80 |

Dr. Ahmed G. Abd Elhameed Helal

Current Position | Associate Professor |
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Major Specialty | Pharmacology |
Full time \ Part Time Delegation \ Appointed | Full Time Delegation |
agamal@horus.edu.eg | |
Faculty Room Number | P221 |
Google Scholar link | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jiP5vy0AAAAJ&hl=en |
H-index | 4 |
Total Citations | 114 |

Dr. Ahmed Esam Khodir

Current Position | Associate Professor |
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Major Specialty | Pharmacology |
Full time \ Part Time Delegation \ Appointed | Appointed |
akhodir@horus.edu.eg | |
Faculty Room Number | P405 |
Google Scholar link | https://scholar.google.com.eg/citations?hl=en&user=48epa0oAAAAJ |
H-index | 15 |
Total Citations | 506 |

Dr. Mohamed khalil Elmahdy Elkasaby

Current Position | Lecturer |
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Major Specialty | Pharmacology |
Full time \ Part Time Delegation \ Appointed | Appointed |
mkhalil@horus.edu.eg | |
Faculty Room Number | P406 |
Google Scholar link | https://scholar.google.com/schhp?hl=ar |
H-index | 5 |
Total Citations | 61 |

Dr. Marwa Abd El-Dayem

Current Position | Lecturer (Post PhD Scholarship) |
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Major Specialty | Pharmacology |
Full time \ Part Time Delegation \ Appointed | Appointed |
mdayem@horus.edu.eg | |
Faculty Room Number | P407 |
Google Scholar link | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=o_BSY90AAAAJ&hl=en |
H-index | 5 |
Total Citations | 135 |

Dr. Samar Ahmed Anter

Current Position | Lecturer (Post PhD Scholarship) |
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Major Specialty | Pharmacology |
Full time \ Part Time Delegation \ Appointed | Appointed |
santar@horus.edu.eg | |
Faculty Room Number | P417 |
Google Scholar link | https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=ar&user=9nvpAt8AAAAJ |
H-index | 7 |
Total Citations | 167 |
Staff Assistant Members

Ahmed Mohamed Mamdouh

Current Position | Assistant Lecturer (PhD Scholarship) |
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Major Specialty | Pharmacology |
amamdouh@horus.edu.eg | |
Date of Academic Position | 1/9/2021 |
Google Scholar link | https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=ar&user=4nqQ48QAAAAJ&view_op=list_work |
H-index | 1 |
Publications & Presentations | In-vitro and in-vivo investigation of amygdalin, metformin, and combination of both against doxorubicin on hepatocellular carcinoma |

Mohammed Atef Taher El-Gammal

Current Position | Assistant Lecturer |
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Major Specialty | Pharmacology |
melgamal@horus.edu.eg | |
Date of Academic Position | 1/5/2022 |
Google Scholar link | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=TJPR2-4AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao |
H-index | 1 |
Total Citations | 6 |
Publications & Presentations | 1- Etanercept Mitigates Cadmium Chloride-induced Testicular Damage in Rats" An Insight into Autophagy, Apoptosis, Oxidative Stress and Inflammation" 2- Mechanisms of Cadmium-Induced Testicular Damage |

Mennatallah Osama Ibrahim Zaki

Current Position | Assistant Lecturer |
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Major Specialty | Pharmacology |
mosama@horus.edu.eg | |
Date of Academic Position | 10/1/2016 |
Google Scholar link | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QTJYD9MAAAAJ&hl=ar&oi=ao |
H-index | 3 |
Total Citations | 12 |
ORCID | 0000-0002-2277-4934 |
Publications & Presentations | 1. Glimepiride mitigates tauopathy and neuroinflammation in P301S transgenic mice: role of AKT/GSK3β signaling 2. Potential role of Drug Repositioning Strategy (DRS) for management of tauopathy 3. Glimepiride ameliorates renal toxicity induced by cadmium in mice: Modulation of Jun N terminal kinase (JNK)/nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB) and phosphatidylinositol 3-kinases (PI3K)/protein kinase (AKT) pathways 4. Evaluation of β Amyloids and Tau Protein Biomarkers for Alzheimer’s Disease in Serum of Alzheimer Patients. |

Hadeer Mamdouh Abdelsalam

Current Position | Assistant Lecturer |
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Major Specialty | Pharmacology |
habdelsalam@horus.edu.eg | |
Date of Academic Position | 2/12/2020 |
Google Scholar link | https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=ar&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=hadeer+m+abdelsalam&oq=hadeer+m+abdelsa |
Research Gate | https://www.researchgate.net/publication/366087167_TLR4-IN-C34_protects_against_acute_kidney_injury_via_modulating_TLR4MyD88NF-kb_axis_MAPK_and_apoptosis |
ORCID | 0000-0003-4146-2693 |
Publications & Presentations | TLR4‐IN‐C34 protects against acute kidney injury via modulating TLR4/MyD88/NF-κb axis, MAPK, and apoptosis |

Laila Magdi Abd EL-Hamed EL-Shwady

Current Position | Demonstrator |
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Major Specialty | Pharmacology |
labdelhamed@horus.edu.eg | |
Date of Academic Position | 3/1/2022 |

Sara Samir Hamed Abo El magd

Current Position | Demonstrator |
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Major Specialty | Pharmacology |
ssamir@horus.edu.eg | |
Date of Academic Position | 12-12-2023 |
Biochemistry

Dr. Mohamed Shawky Zaghloul Abdou Sayed Ahmed

Current Position | Lecturer (Post PhD Scholarship) |
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Major Specialty | Biochemistry |
mshawky@horus.edu.eg | |
Faculty Room Number | P220 |
Google Scholar link | https://scholar.google.fr/citations?hl=ar&pli=1&user=2yLQqs4AAAAJ |
H-index | 5 |
Total Citations | 106 |
Research Published |
Elseweidy M M, Elswefy S E, and Shawky M 2013a Diabetic Renal Injury Induced in Experimental Rats. Biomedical Engineering 2(4):175-181. Elseweidy M M, Elswefy S E, Younis N N, and Zaghloul M S 2013b Pyridoxamine, an inhibitor of protein glycation, in relation to microalbuminuria and proinflammatory cytokines in experimental diabetic nephropathy. Experimental Biology and Medicine 238(8):881-888. Elseweidy M M, Elswefy S E, and Shawky M 2014 Renal injury induced in alloxan diabetic rats. Role of Mycophenolate Mofetil as therapeutic agent. Pathology-Research and Practice 210(12):979-984. Elseweidy M M, Zaghloul M S , and Younis N N 2016 10-DHGD ameliorates cisplatin-induced nephrotoxicity in rats. Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy 83:241-246. Elseweidy M M, Askar M E, Elswefy S E, and Shawky M 2017 Vanillin as a new modulator candidate for renal injury induced by cisplatin in experimental rats. Cytokine 99:260-265. — 2018 Nephrotoxicity induced by cisplatin intake in experimental rats and therapeutic approach of using mesenchymal stem cells and spironolactone. Applied biochemistry and biotechnology 184:1390-1403. Elnagar G M, Elseweidy M M, Elkomy N M, Al-Gabri N A, and Shawky M 2021 10-Dehydrogingerdione ameliorates renal endoplasmic reticulum/oxidative stress and apoptosis in alcoholic nephropathy induced in experimental rats. Life Sciences 279:119673. Elnagar G M, Elseweidy M M, Mahmoud Y K, Elkomy N M, Althafar Z M, Alnomasy S F, Al-Gabri N A, and Shawky M 2022 10-Dehydrogingerdione Attenuates Tramadol-Induced Nephrotoxicity by Modulating Renal Oxidative Stress, Inflammation and Apoptosis in Experimental Rats: Role of HO-1 Activation and TLR4/NF-κB/ERK Inhibition. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 23(3):1384. 2022 Eltanani S, Yumnamcha T, Gregory A, Elshal M, Shawky M , and Ibrahim A S Relative Importance of Different Elements of Mitochondrial Oxidative Phosphorylation in Maintaining the Barrier Integrity of Retinal Endothelial Cells: Implications for Vascular-Associated Retinal Diseases. Cells 11(24):4128. Helal M, Shawky M , Elhusseiny S, and Abd Elhameed A 2021 Lactoferrin Ameliorates Azithromycin-induced Cardiac Injury: Insight into Oxidative Stress/TLR4/NF-κB Pathway. Journal of Advanced Pharmacy Research 5(2):285-296. |

Dr. Muhammad Muhammad Salahuddin Awad

Current Position | Lecturer |
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Major Specialty | Biochemistry |
msalahuddin@horus.edu.eg | |
Faculty Room Number | P220 |
Google Scholar link | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5hNBxZAAAAAJ&hl=ar&oi=sra |
H-index | 2 |
Total Citations | 31 |
Research Published | Salman T M, Omran G A, El-Naa M M, Doghish A S, Youns S, and Awad M M 2014 Protective effect of proanthocyanidins on nephrotoxicity induced by antitumor dose of cisplatin in ehrlich solid tumor-bearing mice. Arab. J. Lab. Med 40(2):953-965. Salahuddin M M, Omran G A, Helmy M W, and Houssen M E 2021 Effect of regorafenib on P2X7 receptor expression and different oncogenic signaling pathways in a human breast cancer cell line: a potential of new insight of the antitumor effects of regorafenib. Current Issues in Molecular Biology 43(3):2199-2209. |

Dr. Amir Osama Hamouda

Current Position | Lecturer |
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Major Specialty | Biochemistry |
ahamouda@horus.edu.eg | |
Faculty Room Number | P220 |
Google Scholar link | https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=ar&user=F-OIAakAAAAJ |
H-index | |
Total Citations | |
Research Published | Hamouda A, Abdel-Hamed A, Abo-Elmatty D, Khedr N, and Ghattas M 2022 Pentoxifylline and its association with kaempferol improve NASH-associated manifestation in mice through anti-apoptotic, anti-necroptotic, antioxidant, and anti-inflammatory mechanisms. European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences 26(23):8644-8659. Maivel H. Ghattas Asmaa R. Abdel-Hamed, Amir O. Hamouda, Dina M. Abo-elmatty, Naglaa F. Khedr 2022 Role of Kaempferol Combined with Pioglitazone in the Alleviation of Inflammation and Modulation of Necroptosis and Apoptosis Pathways in NASH-induced Mice. Journal of Medicinal and Chemical Sciences 6(5):250-265 Nahla E El-Ashmawy, Eman G Khedr, Awad M ElAbd, Amir O Hamouda 2019 Association Between Soluble Urokinase Plasminogen Activator Receptor And Interleukin 6 In The Diagnosis Of Coronary Artery Disease Patients |
Staff Assistant Members
Maha Mahmoud Ibrahim Kamel

Current Position | Assistant Lecturer (PhD Scholarship) |
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Major Specialty | Biochemistry |
mkamel@horus.edu.eg | |
Date of Academic Position | 10/1/2016 |
Gamal Ahmed Elfar

Current Position | Assistant Lecturer (PhD Scholarship) |
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Major Specialty | |
Faculty Room Number | |
Google Scholar link | |
H-index | |
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Eman Hamdy Mohamed Yousef

Current Position | Assistant Lecturer |
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Major Specialty | Biochemistry |
ehamdy@horus.edu.eg | |
Date of Academic Position | 20/9/2017 |
Google Scholar link | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=08DKybIAAAAJ&hl=en&authuser=1 |
H-index | 1 |
Total Citations | 3 |
Publications & Presentations | Polo-like kinase 1 as a promising diagnostic biomarker and potential therapeutic target for hepatocellular carcinoma |

Menna Abdelnaser Hassan

Current Position | Assistant Lecturer |
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Major Specialty | Biochemistry |
mabdelnaser@horus.edu.eg | |
Date of Academic Position | 11/9/2015 |

Menna Mostafa Eldawoudy

Current Position | Demonstrator |
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Major Specialty | Biochemistry |
Meldawoudy@horus.edu.eg |

Ibrahim Ali Ali Erfan

Current Position | Demonstrator |
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Major Specialty | Biochemistry |
eerfan@horus.edu.eg | |
Date of Academic Position | 10/1/2021 |

Mohamed Elsayed Mahdy

Current Position | Demonstrator |
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Major Specialty | Biochemistry |
mmahdy@horus.edu.eg | |
Date of Academic Position | 10/10/2021 |

Ingi Ayman Ahmed Hafez

Current Position | Demonstrator |
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Major Specialty | Biochemistry |
Ehafiz@horus.edu.eg | |
Date of Academic Position | 21/2/2023 |

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