Journal of Medicinal Chemistry & Studies

Dr. Rasha Hanafi is Associate Professor of pharmaceutical and biomedical analysis at the unit of Instrumental analysis and analytical chemistry of at the German University in Cairo. She joined the GUC in 2004 as a teaching assistant till she obtained her master’s degree in pharmaceutical analysis from Cairo University in 2005 followed by Ph.D. in pharmaceutical and biomedical analysis in 2009 supervised by Prof. Hilde Spahn-Langguth and Prof. Laila Mahran, where she was the first pharmacist to earn this degree from GUC. She obtained her habilitation from the Supreme Council of Universities of Egypt in 2016 to become associate professor of pharmaceutical analysis. She teaching of Instrumental analysis and analytical chemistry for Pharmacy students and is the supervisor of the Central Research Laboratory of the faculty and trainer on all chromatographic and spectrophotometric instruments. She is a scientific consultant and free-lance trainer for the Industry and Academia in the field of Analytical Method Development and Validation. She obtained many travel grants from DAAD including GERSS, and financial sponsoring from different pharmaceutical companies (Roche and SEDICO) for a variety of analytical developed methods of interest. She supervised more about 20 masters and Ph.D. students have been an external examiner for postgraduate students from Cairo University. She co-authored one book and has more than 25 publications in peer-reviewed international journals and about 20 conference abstracts and oral presentations. In addition, she is reviewer and editor of 6 Scopus and Medline indexed international peer-reviewed journals in the field of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical analysis. She has been also an evaluator for DAAD scholarships’ applicants. Her research collaboration includes Freie University of Berlin, University of Tübingen, and 57357 children cancer hospital and the National Institute of Cancer. She masters 4 languages fluently (Spanish, French, English, and Arabic).