💡On 7th October 2020, Emmanuelle
Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
for the development of a method for genome editing "the CRISPR/Cas9
genetic scissors". 💡👏🏼
💡Therefore, PSRC is inviting you to
join us in a scientific lecture about " CRISPR / CAS9 technology and the
ongoing research to use this technology in treatment" with Dr. Areej
Abuhammad on Sunday, 20th December 2020, at 6pm using ZOOM. 🙏🤩
Dr. Areej Abuhammad studied Pharmacy in the
University of Jordan and was awarded an M.Sc. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from
the same university. She successfully carried out a D.Phil. in Pharmacology in
the Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford.
Dr. Abuhammad joined the Department of
Pharmaceutical Sciences in the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Jordan
in August 2013 and since then has been working on establishing the first
protein crystallization laboratory in Jordan. Dr. Abuhammad's research focuses
on drug design and protein crystallography. She has published several papers
and was an invited speaker in several international conferences in more than 18
countries around the world.
She was awarded the LOREAL-UNESCO “For
Women In Science” Levant and Egypt Fellowship in 2017 and the LOREAL-UNESCO
International Rising Talent in 2018.
💡The deadline for submission is on
Friday 18/12/2020 at 10 p.m.
To sign up for this lecture, kindly fill
the following form:
https://forms.gle/HJM7aPGDcVBgAUZKA