Welcome
to the Department of Pharmacognosy, Ain Shams Univ. where our goal
is to combine nature and medicine to give you the best we
have to offer in the world of natural products. Our department is
one of the most popular in the faculty of Pharmacy given that we
have a busy schedule teaching pre-pharmacy, 1st, 2nd,
3rd and 4th year students. Our department
members include 3 professors,2 lecturers , 18 graduate students and
5
technicians, comprising different educational backgrounds, offering
the best of teaching as well as research skills. So, come
investigate the mystical world of natural products, filled with
fascinating microscopical beauty, fragrant miracle plants and
mysterious phytochemical conclusions, with our special touch of
Egyptian folklore; after all, we the Egyptians were the first to use
herbal medicine.
Prof. Nahla.A.Ayoub
The Department
The department of Pharmacognosy offers diverse types of
courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. For the under
graduate level, the courses delivered include Botany, Medical
botany, General Pharmacognosy, Chemistry of natural products as well
as the very recent course in the quality control of herbal drugs.
The applications of HPLC, GC and spectroscopic analysis were also
included.
Medical botany is designed as prerequisite course to Pharmacognosy
and Phytochemistry courses in order to help the students in the
identification of natural drugs from plant kingdom as well as, their
proper collection, storage and marketing according to official
texts. While General Pharmacognosy courses deal with the
identification of a natural drug in its natural form either entire
or powdered using advanced physicochemical techniques.
The courses of chemistry of natural products and their applications
in therapeutics are also covered. These courses are designed to deal
with different classes of 2ry metabolites. Thus; the courses cover
different methods of preparation, isolation and identification from
their natural sources by chemical and chromatographic methods as
well as their application in medicine and pharmaceutical industries.
In addition, special emphasis regarding the of biosynthesis of
natural products including carbohydrates, glycosides, bitter
principles, volatile oils, alkaloids---- etc are also covered. The
introduction of vast numbers of herbal drug in recent decade and
obstacles faced in their analysis required the development of a new
course viz., the quality control of herbal drug. Thus, provides the
pharmacy graduate with necessary knowledge that distinguishes him
from other being capable of solving the problem of herbal drug
analysis.
Contacts
Department
of Pharmacognosy
Faculty of Pharmacy
Ain Shams University
Organization of African Unity Street
P.O.X:11566
Abassia, Cairo
Egypt
Tel: (202) 405 1106
Fax: (202) 405 1107
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