Major: Pharmacology

Specialization: development of therapeutics for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

PRESENT DESIGNATION:

• Assistant Professor of pharmacology (Since July 2019)

EDUCATION:

• Ph.D in Medical Pharmacology, College of medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
• M.S. in Pharmaceutics, College of pharmacy, MCPHS University, Boston,MA ,USA
• Pharm.D, College of pharmacy, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
  

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

• Drug discovery, Neurodegenerative disease and pain management

SCIENTIFIC MEMBERSHIPS

1. Member of  American Society for pharmacology and experimental therapeutics ASPET

PUBLICATIONS (in KSAU-HS)

1. François-Moutal L, Felemban R, Scott DD, Sayegh MR, Miranda VG, Perez-Miller S, Khanna R, Gokhale V, Zarnescu DC, Khanna M, “Small Molecule Targeting TDP-43’s RNA Recognition Motifs Reduces Locomotor Defects in a Drosophila Model of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).” ACS Chemical Biology, vol. 14, no. 9, 2019, doi:10.1021/acschembio.9b00481.

BOOKS

• Arabic patient education Handbook on diabetes mellitus patients in collaboration with the Friends of Diabetes Society (1000 copies)