Zoheir A Damanhouri

Professor
Academic
King Abdul Aziz University
Saudi Arabia

Professor Surgery
Biography

Zoheir A Damanhouri is currently the Chairman of Pharmacology Department in the Faculty of Medicine at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He obtained his BSc degree in Biochemistry from the University of Lancaster in the United Kingdom, and his MSc and PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Wales. His main research focuses on various areas in pharmacology including natural products on anticancer drugs and their toxicities, implication of herbal medicine co-administration with conventional drugs and therapy also on drug metabolism in particular variability in CYP450 isozymes (and SNP’s) and their involvement in drug interactions, adverse drug effects and polymorphism. He has over 40 publications in his specialty in pharmaceutical sciences. Zoheir A Damanhouri is currently the Chairman of Pharmacology Department in the Faculty of Medicine at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He obtained his BSc degree in Biochemistry from the University of Lancaster in the United Kingdom, and his MSc and PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Wales. His main research focuses on various areas in pharmacology including natural products on anticancer drugs and their toxicities, implication of herbal medicine co-administration with conventional drugs and therapy also on drug metabolism in particular variability in CYP450 isozymes (and SNP’s) and their involvement in drug interactions, adverse drug effects and polymorphism. He has over 40 publications in his specialty in pharmaceutical sciences.

Research Intrest

Obstetrics and Gynaecology