Assistant Professor (Adjunct)

PhD in Chemistry: 2003, Northeastern University, Massachusetts, U.S.A. 

Bio

Assistant Professor (Adjunct) at Zayed University, Dubai, since 2020, with prior teaching roles at the University of Modern Sciences, University of Sharjah, and American University of Dubai. Former Research Scientist at Proteomics International, Perth, and Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Western Australia and Northeastern University.

 

 
Office

Dubai Academic City, D-L1-022

Phone:

+971-4 4021496

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Teaching Areas

General Chemistry.

Inorganic Chemistry.

Fundamentals of Organic Chemistry.

Principles of Biochemistry.

Research and Professional Activities

- Development of novel approaches to assess oxidative stress biomarkers for both in-vitro and in-vivo models.
- Development of new chromatographic and mass spectrometric methods to study protein-protein interactions and analyze complex biological samples.
- Quantitative studies of Drug-Protein Binding.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

  1. Jarrar M, El-Shafey Ahmed. The Paradox of Ectopic Melanin Synthesis in Adipose: Potential  Mechanism, Benefits and Perspectives in Abating Obesity Complications. J Obes Weight Loss Ther 8: 363, 2018.
  2. Mohammed Jarrar, Ahmed El Shafey, Rabia Essa, Ruksar Damji, Aisha Rauf, Ielaf Hindi. Melanin relieves oxidative stress in adipocytes culture in vitro. Pharmaceutical and Biological Evaluations, 4:212-215, Aug. 2017.
  3. Hatice Tohma, Ahmed F. El-Shafey, Kevin Croft, Tea Shavlakadze. Protein thiol oxidation does not change in skeletal muscles of aging female mice. Biogerontology 15:87-98, 2014.
  4. El-Shafey, A. F., A. E. Armstrong, J. R. Terrill, M. D. Grounds, and P. G. Arthur Screening for increased protein thiol oxidation in oxidatively stressed muscle tissue. Free Radic Res. 45(9):991-9, 2011.
  5. Li G, Zhou X, Wang Y, El-Shafey A, Chiu NH, Krull IS. Capillary isoelectric focusing and affinity capillary electrophoresis approaches for the determination of binding constants for antibodies to the prion protein. J Chromatogr A. 2004 Oct 22; 1053 (1-2):253-62.
  6. S. Schiavo, A. El-Shafey, N. Jordan, N. H. Chiu, and I. S. Krull. Immuno-PCR: an overview of the analytical technique currently pushing the limits of detection. PharmaGenomics Magazine. 2004 January, 36-45.
  7. El-Shafey, Ahmed; Zhong, Huijuan; Jones, Graham; Krull, Ira S. Application of affinity capillary electrophoresis for the determination of binding and thermodynamic constants of enediynes with bovine serum albumin. Electrophoresis 2002, 23(6), 945.
 

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