Since September, 2019 Ghina’a Abu Deiab has been a faculty member at Yarmouk University. Ghina'a is teaching and doing research in both Medicinal Chemistry and Organic Chemistry. In particular, her group is working on the preparation and biological evaluation
of anticancer agents. Besides, the group is working on studying
teaching methodologies linking Medicinal Chemistry/Organic Chemistry and
Clinical Therapeutics courses.
Ghina'a earned her B.S. in Pharmacy from Jordan University of Science and Technology in 2006. In 2010, she earned her M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry from the same university. In 2012, she went to University of North Carolina at Greensboro to pursue a Ph.D. in Medicinal Biochemistry in the group of Dr. Mitchell Croatt. She focused her graduate research on the synthesis and biological evaluation of neuroprotective agents against ischemic stroke and successfully defended her thesis in 2016. Ghina’a then went back to Jordan to start her independent academic career as an assistant professor at Applied Science University in February, 2017 till September, 2019.
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