Speaker
Dr. Mostafa Assem Mostafa Darwish
Lecturer of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Nahda University., Egypt
Biography :
Mostafa Darwish has his expertise in molecular pharmacology regarding mechanisms of cisplatin nephrotoxicity and the influence of drugs or substrates on transporting system like OCT2 in tubules on cisplatin excretion from his master work. In addition, he studied the role of chemokines in initiation as well as development of diabetes mellitus in his Ph.D. He studied the role of the chemotactic chemokine CXCL16 and its processing enzymes ADAM 10 and ADAM17 in pancreas of diabetic mice. He has a very good experience in animal modeling and molecular imaging techniques like immunofluorescence and western blotting.
