B Allal is presently a professor at Cadi Ayyad University of Marrakech in Morocco, where he teaches since 1982. He received a Bachelor of chemistry (1979) from Mohamed V University of Rabat in Morocco, a Third Cycle Doctorate on materials science (1982) from the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse in France and a PhD (1989) on chemistry of interfaces from the Catholic University of Louvain-La-Neuve in Belgium. His awards from the Fulbright scholar program (three months during 1997 and 2004) and his grants from the Children’s Hospital of Boston (October 97 to August98; June-August 1999) took him as a senior research scientist to the Harvard Medical School in USA to work on a project entitled “Apatite as a Local Delivery System for Anti-Cancer Drugs”. His research interests focus on the preparation, characterization of calcium phosphate materials, the understanding of their surface reactivity toward biological molecules and the development of new biomaterials for drug delivery applications. His research activities include also the development of new solid materials (phosphates and clay minerals) in relation with natural resources valorization and water purification. He has supervised several doctoral theses and published over 60 articles in peer reviewed journals andconferences proceedings, and he is serving as a reviewer of several reputed journals. B Allal is presently a professor at Cadi Ayyad University of Marrakech in Morocco, where he teaches since 1982. He received a Bachelor of chemistry (1979) from Mohamed V University of Rabat in Morocco, a Third Cycle Doctorate on materials science (1982) from the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse in France and a PhD (1989) on chemistry of interfaces from the Catholic University of Louvain-La-Neuve in Belgium. His awards from the Fulbright scholar program (three months during 1997 and 2004) and his grants from the Children’s Hospital of Boston (October 97 to August98; June-August 1999) took him as a senior research scientist to the Harvard Medical School in USA to work on a project entitled “Apatite as a Local Delivery System for Anti-Cancer Drugs”. His research interests focus on the preparation, characterization of calcium phosphate materials, the understanding of their surface reactivity toward biological molecules and the development of new biomaterials for drug delivery applications. His research activities include also the development of new solid materials (phosphates and clay minerals) in relation with natural resources valorization and water purification. He has supervised several doctoral theses and published over 60 articles in peer reviewed journals andconferences proceedings, and he is serving as a reviewer of several reputed journals.

Development of new solid materials