Husam M Younes
Qatar University, Qatar
Biography
Husam Younes is a graduate of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Alberta (UA) in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He received his BSc (Pharm) in 1992 followed by MSc (Pharmaceutical Technology) in 1995. He worked as a Technical Manager in the Pharmaceutical Industry in Palestine and Jordan then completed his PhD from UA in 2002. In August 2007, Younes moved to Qatar to start his new career as the Founding Chair of Pharmaceutical Sciences department in the new Pharmacy Program at Qatar University. He is currently an Associate Professor of Biopharmaceutics at the College of Pharmacy and the founder of the new Pharmaceutics and Polymeric Drug Delivery Research Laboratory. He previously worked in the pharmaceutical industry and also as a senior consultant to Newfoundland Health Department in Canada. His main research is in the areas of controlled drug release, biomaterials, tissue engineering and synthesis of novel biodegradable polymers designed for localized and targeted delivery of therapeutic proteins in cancer therapy. Younes supervised graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in his lab and acted as an editorial board member and a reviewer for many pharmaceutical and drug delivery journals.
