Mohammad H. Alsaggar

Irbtid, Jordan

Phone:0790743868

Email:

OBJECTIVE:

My career so far has been nothing less of perfect success; the rail is just right on track to move on.I am seeking to pursue my research in the field of Biomedical Sciences. In particular, the elite research on cancer gene therapy is truly inspirational. Given the chance,I would love to be a member of cancer research team and the research community at large at cancer research association. I am looking forward to integratechemistry, biology and genetics with human pathophysiology, biochemistry and therapeutics to optimize cancer therapy.

EDUCATION:

Aug. 2011 –May 2016 PhD in Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Sciences,

University of Georgia

Athens, GA

Dissertation: Hydrodynamic Delivery for Cancer and Obesity Research (Completion date 05/2016)

2004- 2009 B.Sc in Pharmacy

Jordan University of Science and Technology

Irbid - Jordan

GPA:92.1%;Distinguished Grade.

Rank:2nd out of 360.

2004 Jordanian Tawjehi, Mus’ab Ben Omair High school

Irbid - Jordan

GPA: 93.4%;excellentGrade.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

July 2016 – PresentAssistant Professor

School of Pharmacy, Jordan University of Science and Technology

Irbid - Jordan

Aug 2015- May 2016 Teaching Assistant

School of Pharmacy, University of Georgia

Athens, GA

Sep 2009 – July 2010 Teaching and Research Assistant

School of Pharmacy,Jordan University of science and technology

Irbid – Jordan

Feb 09 – Sep 09 Pharmacist

A’eshah Cummunity Pharmacy

Irbid – Jordan

WORK DESCRIPTION:

Assistant Professor; Current duties are teaching and research. The courses I am teaching are Gene and Protein Therapy, Pharmaceutical Microbiology, and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology. Areas of research include Cancer Gene Therapy. Cancer Metastasis, Gene Therapy of Obesity and Diabetes, Gene Delivery.

Teaching Assistant; I was responsible for supervising 4th year students in B.Sc in Pharmacy in various drug development and pharmaceutical industry techniques.

Teaching and research Assistant (Jordan); throughout this work, I acquired and developed teaching skills. I was responsible for teaching Pharmacy Practice, Pharmaceutical Microbiology and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology laboratories to 4th year Pharmacy and PharmD student. My duties were a lecturer and supervisor for these laboratories.

Pharmacist, I managed and ran the pharmacy, and duties were to dispense prescriptions, provide counseling to patients and to supervise training students and technicians.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:

PhD Dissertation, Aug 2011 – May 2016

Gene Delivery and Gene Therapy Lab, Advisor: Dr. Dexi Liu.

  • Establishment and optimization of metastatic tumor models in mice using hydrodynamic cell delivery.
  • Quantitative assessment of tumor growth and sensitivity to anticancer therapies.
  • Therapeutic assessment of selected genes in various diseases models in mice.
  • Techniques include cell culture, DNA cloning, DNA and RNA purification, analysis of gene expression, tissue histology, serum biochemistry and others.

Undergraduate Research Assistant, Sep 2009 – Aug 2010

Pharmaceutical Technology Department, Jordan University of Science and Technology.

  • Characterization of drug release profiles in various dosage forms.
  • Assessment of Drug-excipients interactions in various dosage forms.
  • Techniques include synthetic chemistry, analytical assays such as HPLC and spectrophotometry, and various preformulation methodologies.

AFFILIATIONS:

JPSA: Jordanian Pharmacy Student Association

JPA: Jordanian Pharmacists Association

AAPS: American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists

AACR: American Association of Cancer Research

ASGCT: American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy

CONFERENCES:

  • 2009 International Conference of Arab Pharmacists.Amman, Jordan
  • 2011 Graduate Symposium of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Pittsburgh, PA
  • 2013 AACR Annual Meeting. Washington D.C.
  • 2015 ASGCT Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.

PUBLICATIONS:

  1. Mohammad Alsaggar andDexi Liu(2014)Gene delivery: an essential component for successful gene therapy. In"Drug Delivery", Edited by Ashim Mitra, Deep Kwatra, and Aswani Dutt Vadlapudi,Jones & Bartlett Learning, Burlington, MA, USA, pp 381-398.
  1. Yahya Alhamhoom, Mohammad Alsaggar andDexi Liu(2015)Future perspective – towards targeting at the cellular level,In"Advances and Challenges in the Delivery of Oligonucleotide-based Therapies",(Volume 2), pp 2-17. doi: 10.4155/fseb2013.14.10.
  1. Mohammad Alsaggar andDexi Liu(2015) Physical methods for gene transfer. In “Non-Viral Vectors for Gene Therapy: Physical Methods and Medical Translation.” L. Huang, D. Liu, and E. Wagner (eds), Advances in Genetics 89: pp1–24.
  1. Mohammad Alsaggar andDexi Liu(2014) Liver-targeted gene and cell therapies: an overview, In “Gene Therapy and Cell Therapy through the Liver,” Shuji Terai and Takeshi Suda (eds), Springer Japan KK, Tokyo, Japan, pp 1-11. doi: 10.1007/978-4-431-55666-4_1.
  1. Mohammad Alsaggar, Qian Yao, Houjian Cai and Dexi Liu (2016) Differential growth and responsiveness to cancer therapy of tumor cells in different environments. Clinical and Experimental Metastasis,33(2): pp 115-124.
  1. Mingming Gao, Yongjie Ma, Mohammad Alsaggar and Dexi Liu (2016) Dual Outcomes of Rosiglitazone Treatment on Fatty Liver. The AAPS Journal. Jul;18(4):1023-31.
  1. Mohammad Alsaggar, Michael Mills and Dexi Liu (2017) Interferon beta overexpression attenuates adipose tissue inflammation and high fat diet-induced obesity and restores glucose homeostasis. Gene Therapy. Jan;24(1):60-66.
  2. Hardik Mody, Sau Wai Hung, Mohammad AlSaggar, Jazmine Griffin, and Rajgopal Govindarajan (2016) Inhibition of S-Adenosylmethionine-Dependent Methyltransferase Attenuates TGF-β1-induced EMT and Metastasis in Pancreatic Cancer:Putative Roles of miR-663a and miR-4787-5p. Molecular Cancer Research. Nov;14(11):1124-1135.

REFRENCES:

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