Assistant Professor (Adjunct)

Bio

January 2020 – Present: Assistant Professor (Adjunct), College of Natural and Health Sciences, Zayed University, Dubai, UAE.
September 2016 – June 2019: Assistant Professor, College of Biotechnology, University of Modern Sciences, Dubai, UAE.
September 2014 – May 2016: Assistant Professor (Adjunct), Chemistry Department, University of Sharjah, Al Sharjah, UAE.
May 2013 – August 2014: Assistant Professor (Adjunct), Faculty of Sciences, American University of Dubai, Dubai, UAE.
January 2011 – December 2012: Research Scientist, Proteomics International, Perth, WA, Australia.
May 2009 – December 2010: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Biomedical, Bimolecular and chemical sciences School, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia.
May 2006 – December 2008: Lecturer, Chemistry Department, Faculty of Sciences, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt.
April 2004 – April 2006: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, U.S.A.
March 2003 – February 2004: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

Office

Dubai Academic City, D-L1-022

Phone:

+971-4 4021496

Email:

Teaching Areas

Teaching Areas:
General Chemistry.
Inorganic Chemistry.
Fundamentals of Organic Chemistry.
Principles of Biochemistry.

Research and Professional Activities

Field of interest: Bioanalytical Chemistry

- Development of novel approaches to assess oxidative stress biomarkers for both in-vitro and in-vivo models.
- Development of new chromatographic and mass spectrometric methods to study protein-protein interactions and analyze complex biological samples.
- Quantitative studies of Drug-Protein Binding.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

1. Jarrar M, El-Shafey Ahmed. The Paradox of Ectopic Melanin Synthesis in Adipose: Potential  Mechanism, Benefits and Perspectives in Abating Obesity Complications. J Obes Weight Loss Ther 8: 363, 2018.

2. Mohammed Jarrar, Ahmed El Shafey, Rabia Essa, Ruksar Damji, Aisha Rauf, Ielaf Hindi. Melanin relieves oxidative stress in adipocytes culture in vitro. Pharmaceutical and Biological Evaluations, 4:212-215, Aug. 2017.

3. Hatice Tohma, Ahmed F. El-Shafey, Kevin Croft, Tea Shavlakadze. Protein thiol oxidation does not change in skeletal muscles of aging female mice. Biogerontology 15:87-98, 2014.

4. El-Shafey, A. F., A. E. Armstrong, J. R. Terrill, M. D. Grounds, and P. G. Arthur Screening for increased protein thiol oxidation in oxidatively stressed muscle tissue. Free Radic Res. 45(9):991-9, 2011.

5. El-Shafey A, N Tolic, MM Young, KL Sale, RD Smith, and V Kery. ““Zero-length” Cross-linking in Solid State as an Approach for Analysis of Protein -Protein Interactions.” Protein Science 15(3):429-440, 2006.

6. Li G, Zhou X, Wang Y, El-Shafey A, Chiu NH, Krull IS. Capillary isoelectric focusing and affinity capillary electrophoresis approaches for the determination of binding constants for antibodies to the prion protein. J Chromatogr A. 2004 Oct 22; 1053 (1-2):253-62.

7. S. Schiavo, A. El-Shafey, N. Jordan, N. H. Chiu, and I. S. Krull. Immuno-PCR: an overview of the analytical technique currently pushing the limits of detection. PharmaGenomics Magazine. 2004 January, 36-45.

8. El-Shafey, Ahmed; Zhong, Huijuan; Jones, Graham; Krull, Ira S. Application of affinity capillary electrophoresis for the determination of binding and thermodynamic constants of enediynes with bovine serum albumin. Electrophoresis 2002, 23(6), 945.