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Wael Mamdouh
- Position: Professor
- Department: Department of Chemistry
- Email: [email protected]
Wael Mamdouh is a professor of nanotechnology at the Department of Chemistry at The American University in Cairo (AUC). Mamdouh is also the leader of one of the largest dynamic research groups at AUC, biomedical polymer nano-composites, hydrogels and tissue engineering.
Mamdouh is the also the founder of a recent Spinoff Company (NANO-Fib-TECH) for producing innovative nanotechnology-based antibacterial and disinfectant nanofibers liquids for healthcare industry from the lab to the market. The project led to this startup was funded by the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT) in Egypt and incubated in collaboration with Bedaya Center for Entrepreneurship and SMEs Development (GAFI), Ministry of Investments in Egypt for nine months in 2016.
Recently, Mamdouh won the first place prize among 200 participants for the best startup in the third Cairo International Exhibition of Innovation (Cairo Innovates 2016), organized by ASRT in Egypt.
Mamdouh supervised many students with different backgrounds (chemistry, biology, biotechnology, pharmacy, mechanical engineering and dentistry) in different programs (chemistry, biotechnology, nanotechnology, applied sciences, dentistry, and pharmacy) in AUC as well as in collaboration with national universities (Ain Shams and Cairo Universities) and international universities (University Putra Malaysia (UPM) and the Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO), Denmark.
More than 18 students (undergraduate, MSc and PhD) graduated under Mamdouh’s supervision since 2014, which is one of the highest records. Many of those students further developed their careers abroad (PhD studies) in USA, UK, Switzerland, Germany and France.
Mamdouh has very strong teaching record at prestigious European, Asian and Egyptian Universities. The courses he taught range from general chemistry courses to advanced courses and presented lectures in nanoscience and nanotechnology at AUC.
In 2005, he joined the Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO) at Aarhus University in Denmark as assistant professor where he was in charge of one of the highly equipped state-of-the-art nanoscience and nanotechnology laboratories, the scanning probe microscope (STM and AFM)) activities under ambient conditions. In 2009, he joined the Department of Chemistry at AUC as adjunct assistant professor. In 2011, Mamdouh was hired as a full time tenure-track assistant professor at AUC until 2017 where he became associate professor (tenured).
Mamdouh has also been appointed as guest professor since 2008 at two prestigious universities in China; Tianjin University (TU), Tianjin, and Henan University, Kaifeng. In 2011, he became a tenure-track assistant professor of nanotechnology at AUC.
For about 20 years, Mamdouh has built up significant research experience in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology where he was engaged in performing state-of-the-art nanoscience and nanotechnology research in a multidisciplinary research environment across many scientific fields such as chemistry, physics, biology, material science, and surface science.
Mamdouh used in his research a wide variety of nanomaterials ranging from core-shell silver nanoparticles, nanofibers, DNA/RNA nucleobase molecules, modified nucleobases, peptide nucleic acids, locked nucleic acids, amino acids, carbon nanotubes, enzymes, proteins, chromosomes, and DNA origami.
Mamdouh’s research work is divided into four main parts:
Designing novel nanomaterials and nanocomposites - electrospun nanofibers and conjugated nanoparticles - for biomedical, industrial and packaging applications using natural and synthetic polymers, herbal extracts and essential oils.
Investigating different biomedical activities (such as antibacterial, drug delivery, antioxidant, and cell proliferation) of the developed nanomaterials
Applications of the prepared nanomaterials in:
- Drug delivery (for cancers like breast and lung) and neurodegenerative diseases (Alzehimer)
- Antibacterial and antifungal nano-coatings
- Nanofibers scaffolds for wound dressings
- Nanofibers scaffolds for tissue engineering (including bone, cartridge, tissue and skin regeneration), and Nanodentistry
- Nanofibers scaffolds for Nano-cosmetics,
- Nanoporous membranes for biomedical, industrial and packaging applications.
- Converting food waste into useful nanomaterials in different forms (nanofibers and nanoparticles), with enhanced biomedical applications
Instruments development: Mamdouh is interested in building scientific instruments such as electro-spinning techniques which are cost-effective, reliable, robust and user friendly, in addition to biomedical kits.