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Mohammed Nawzad Sabir
Interim Dean of the College of PharmacyCollege of Pharmacy
- Ph.D. University of Sulaimani
M.Sc. University of Sulaimani
B.Sc. University of Baghdad - Email: [email protected]
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Dr. Mohammed Nawzad Sabir is interim Dean of the College of Pharmacy at American University of Iraq, Sulaimani (AUIS). Born in 1968, he attended the College of the Pharmacy at the University of Baghdad and graduated in 1991. He was employed by the Ministry of Health/Department of Health in Sulaimani in 1991 at the local teaching hospital, where he worked at different posts, including as a clinical pharmacist, Head of the Drug and Therapeutic Committee at the Teaching and General Hospitals, Director of Drug and Medical Supplies Department at the Department of Health, as a member of the SCR-986 Committee, and as a national pharmacist employed by the WHO in the SCR-986 program for three years. He was also a member of the High Committee of the Kurdistan Medical Association and the Head of the Pharmacy branch-Sulaimani from 1998 to 2003.
In 2006, Dr. Mohammed joined the College of Pharmacy and the University of Sulaimani as a lab instructor. In 2009, he was enrolled as a teaching faculty member and as the Head of the Department of Pharmacognosy and Pharmaceutical Chemistry until 2015. In 2010, he was appointed Vice Dean of the College of Pharmacy. After obtaining his Ph.D. in 2019, he was a lecturer at the Pharmacy College at the University of Sulaimani.
His research interests are in biotechnology, drug development and discovery, and natural products. He joined AUIS as interim Dean in October 2022. Dr. Mohammed is the author of four publications and a book. He currently lives in Sulaimani.
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Publications
- Talabani NS. Tofiq DI. Sabir MN. Quantitative evaluation of bioactive substances isolated from Citrullus colocynthis kernel in Kurdistan Region-Iraq, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry & Drug Discovery, 2012, 3(2), 87-93.
- Sabir MN. and Rachid S. Comparative analysis of the fatty acid pattern of Silybum marianum with Nigella sativa by Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectroscopy, IJPS, 2013, 22(1), 25-31.
- Sabir MN. and Askari AA. Characterization of flavonolignans in Silybum marianum L. Grown naturally in Iraqi-Kurdistan Region. JZS-A, 2013, (4)15. 1-11.
- Sabir MN. Pharmacognostic study of Silybum marianum. First Edition May 2014. LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2014, ISBN-13: 978-3-659-23527-6.
- Amin LN. Sabir MN. Al-Khafaji EM. Rachid S. Bioavailability Enhancement of Silybin Through Carbon-23 Acid Derivatization. JZS-A, 2015, 17(3). 87-96.
- Adham AN. Sabir MN. Abdulqadir DH. Naqishbandi AM. Concurrent Self-use of Herbal and Synthetic Medicines in Kurdistan Region-Iraq. JZS-A, 2016, 18(2), 243-8.
- Sabir MN. Saour KY. Rachid S. In vitro Cytotoxic and Antimicrobial Effects of a Novel Peroxysesquiterpene Glucoside from The Rhizomes of Cyperus rotundus L (Cyperaceae). TJPR, 2020, 19(2), 331-9.