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Prof. Dr. Dalia Mohamed
(Ph.D., PGcertHE, FHEA)
* PGcertHE: Postgraduate certificate of higher education (UK)
* FHEA: Fellowship of Higher Education Academy in the UK
Professor of Analytical Chemistry /

Dr. Dalia was graduated from the Faculty of Pharmacy-Cairo University (1994). Her interest is in drug analysis which started with an MSc (from Helwan University, Egypt) dealing with the analysis of beta-agonist agonist drugs with different spectrophotometric and spectrofluorimetric methods. Thereafter followed a Ph.D. (from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, 2005-2009) in the field of analysis of DNA adducts generated by alkylating cytostatic drugs using high-performance liquid chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometry.
Since 2009, Dr. Dalia started lecturing on different instrumental methods of analysis as spectroscopy, chromatography, and electrochemical methods, and their application in the field of drug analysis in different matrices.

Research interests
The emergence of the term green analytical chemistry attracted the interest of the analytical community and raised awareness among analytical chemists to develop quantification methods that are benign to the environment. So, Dr. Dalia is highly interested in employing green analytical chemistry approaches to newly developed analytical methods by bearing in mind the green aspects from the early stages of method development to ensure the reduction or elimination of hazardous substances that are either utilized in or produced by the method, thus, turning it to be a more safe method to the environment. Dr. Dalia is also concerned with residual pharmaceuticals (mainly antibiotics) analysis in food matrices where such residues pose a threat due to their direct effect on the emergence and spread of antibiotic-resistant human pathogens which impose harmful effects on the consumer's health. Another point of interest is the pharmacokinetic study of multicomponent medication on healthy Egyptian volunteers which is not only considered as a challenge for the analytical chemists but also raises questions regarding the effect of co-administration on the pharmacokinetic parameters of each drug.
Within the establishment of the methods of analysis; Dr. Dalia utilizes different separation procedures; solid phase extraction, liquid-liquid micro-extraction, protein precipitation as well as advanced quantification techniques as UPLC-MS/MS, HPLC, spectroscopy, and univariate mathematical spectrophotometric methods. Such techniques have permitted very high sensitivity and selectivity enabling the determination of drugs in biological fluids and food samples.