Dr. Mohammed Abdullah Mahdi Alshawsh

Biography

Dr. Mohammed Alshawsh is currently working as Associate Professor at Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He obtained his PhD in Immunology from Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya in 2012. After his one year postdoc at University of Malaya, he joined Department of Pharmacology, University of Malaya in 2013. Since then he has been doing preclinical research in the area of metabolic syndrome, cancer and safety pharmacology. His current field of research interest mainly focuses on pharmacological and toxicological evaluation of natural products for the treatment of colorectal cancer, obesity, diabetes, and fatty liver diseases using in vivo (animal models) and in vitro (cell culture) studies and investigating the gene expression profiling to unravel the underlying molecular mechanisms involved. He is also doing safety and toxicology studies in particular acute, subacute, and chronic toxicities, genotoxicity, teratogenicity and postnatal developmental toxicity. Dr Alshawsh is a member of Italo-Latin American Society of Ethnomedicine, Malaysian Society of Pharmacology and Physiology and American Society for Microbiology. He served as a reviewer of several international journals, such as BMC Complementary Alternative Medicine, European Journal of Clinical Investigation, Journal of European Food Research and Technology and International Journal for Integrative Biology. Currently, he is supervising 8 PhD students and 1 Master student. He has published over 25 papers in peer-reviewed journals and has given over 15 oral and poster presentations at international conferences. He has an h-index of 10 and citations of more than 300 (Google Scholar) and obtained several research grants, such as UMRG, PPP and FRGS.

Research Interest

Toxicology (Acute toxicity, chronic toxicity, genotoxicity, teratogenicity and postnatal developmental toxicity studies) Therapeutics (In vivo animal models and In vitro cell culture drug testing ) Molecular Pharmacology (Investigating the gene expression profiling to unravel the underlying molecular mechanisms) Traditional Medicine and Natural Product (Pharmacological and toxicological evaluation of natural products for the treatment of colorectal cancer, obesity, diabetes, and fatty liver diseases studies)