India-Egypt research in progress

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 18

Prof Abdou Saad El-Tabl, a renowned chemist from the Menoufia University, Egypt, is at National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER) for a research project.

A joint research grant under the India-Egypt agreement on science and technology cooperation was approved for NIPER and Menoufia University in 2017. The research will be conducted on ‘Synthesis, spectroscopic, characterisation and molecular-modelling studies on new metal chelates as therapeutic agents’.

Prof Abdou Saad El-Tabl’s expertise is in the synthesis of metal complexes and their use for various therapeutic purposes such as in anticancer and antibacterial therapies. He is being accompanied in his visit to NIPER by Prof Moshira Mohamed Abd El Wahed.

The expertise of the Indian team is to computationally design and synthesise organic ligands for metal complexation.