Mahmoud Ahmed, Phd

 Mahmoud Salama Ahmed is an assistant professor at department of pharmaceutical sciences at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC). Prior to TTUHSC, he was trained as a medicinal chemist to receive his PhD from the department of chemistry and biochemistry at South Dakota State University (SDSU). Then, he joined Kemin Industries,  Iowa; as a postdoctoral research scientist. In 2018, he joined UT Southwestern medical center as a research instructor. Dr. Ahmed’s  research program at TTUHSC focuses on recruiting the drug discovery tools including structure-based drug design, organic synthesis, X-ray  crystallography, and in vitro/in vivo biological evaluation to modulate different clinical diseases using small molecules. Dr. Ahmed published  in prestigious peer reviewed journals including Nature, Nature metabolism, Nature cardiovascular, Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, and European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry.