Education Profile

King Abdulaziz University (KAU) Assistant Professor Current Position

University of Cambridge (Postdoc) 2022-2024

University of Cambridge (Ph.D) 2022

University of Nottingham (Master) 2015

Queen Mary University of london (Bachelor of Science) 2014

Short Scientific Bio

Ali studied Pharmaceutical Chemistry at Queen Mary University of London, graduated in 2014. Then he started his master's in Drug discovery and Pharmaceutical Science at the University of Nottingham and graduated in 2015. Ali moved to the USA in 2016 and started working on beta-lactamase inhibitors at the University of New Hampshire. In 2018 Ali moved back to the UK to start his PhD with Prof Sir Tom Blundell at the University of Cambridge (Department of Biochemistry at Sanger Institute). His main PhD thesis is in Computational/Experimental Drug Discover in Cancer and SARS CoV-2. In 2022, Ali continues his Postdoc with Prof Blundell in Drug Discovery in infectious disease (Mycobacterium Abscessus) . I have recently moved to KSA and joined the Department of Biochemistry as Assistant Professor at KAU where I will be hosting my lab.