Heba is a passionate young scientist with a great ambition. Currently, she is a postdoc at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University. She is also a lecturer of Pharmaceutics in the Faculty of Pharmacy, Damanhour University, Egypt. She has a B. Pharm and M.Sc. in Pharmaceutical Sciences (Pharmaceutics) from the Faculty of Pharmacy, Alexandria University, Egypt. She holds a Ph.D. degree (November 2021) in Pharmaceutical Sciences (Pharmaceutics) (Joint scholarship between the School of Pharmacy, Queen’s University Belfast, UK, and the Faculty of Pharmacy, Alexandria University, Egypt). The core of her Ph.D. project was improving the anticancer photodynamic efficacy using a combination of both nanocarriers
and microneedles. Her research interests focus on the development and characterization of microneedles and novel drug delivery systems, immunotherapy, photodynamic therapy, and applications of computational modeling in drug formulation and evaluation.
She is always motivated to develop next-generation drug delivery technologies. Heba is enthusiastic about international scientific collaboration and networking. She has a vision for science delivery and believes that being a YSC member will help her to achieve her vision and support young scientists. Outside of research, she shares in
different volunteering and public engagement activities. In her free time, she loves travelling, discovering new places with different cultures, writing, and sharing in cosmetic academies. She likes to learn languages and acquire new skills such as voice-over
and dubbing. One of her favorite quotes: “For a better world, be the change you want to see”.
