Ayman El-Faham
King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Biography
Dr. Ayman El-Faham received his Ph.D in 1991 in organic chemistry as a joint project between Alexandria University and University of Massachusetts, Amherst, U. S. A. under the supervision of Prof. L. A. Carpino, where he worked on the synthesis of new protecting groups for both solution and solid phase peptide synthesis. Dr. El-Faham involved in the development of new coupling reagents based on 1-hydroxy-7-azabenzotriazole durng his postdoctoral (1992-1999) at the UMASS in Prof. Carpino’s Lab. He holds many patents in this field. He joined the Barcelona Science Park during the summer of 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2011 worked with Prof. Fernando Albericio in the development of a new family of immonium type coupling reagents. He acted as Head of the Chemistry Department, Beirut Arab University, Lebanon (2000-2004) and as Vice Dean, Faculty of Science Alexandria University (2010-2011); currently he is Professor of Organic Chemistry, at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.