BUE

Centre for Drug Research and Development (CDRD)

 

 

Message From the Founder 

During the past three years, we have seen impressive growth in our postgraduate student enrollment, our academic programmes, and especially our research effort, as we work directly with our postgraduate students to open to them a whole new world of discovery, development, and practising in a highly qualified environment with our ongoing efforts to build innovative educational and research programs that meet the ever-changing needs of our health care system. This is how and why the idea of the CDRD came to life: to meet the growing needs of pharmaceutical manufacturing and research in addition to the wide expansion in drug discovery. This offers both postgraduate students and researchers a chance to go through the challenges that prepare a great next generation of pharmacists to make a difference in people’s lives and the healthcare system. 

 Sincerely, 

Professor Abdelgawad Hashem

Founder and Former Director
                                                                                                  

About

Since its establishment in 2013, CDRD has been providing special support to the staff of the Faculty of Pharmacy in several aspects. Such support has been crowned with more than 104 Scopus-indexed publications in high-impact factor journals over all these years with 25 of them during this reporting period (May 2020- April 2021) with 4 of them tackling the covid-19 pandemic and a proposal for drug design of a covid treatment. In addition, members of the CDRD could achieve almost 5M LE of grants, either from BUE or non-BUE funders, funding their tremendous research activities, with almost 730,000LE in this reporting period from The British University in Egypt, ASRT-BA and STDF. This proves the continuous search for funding and the confidence of the funders in the researchers of The British University in Egypt. Importantly, we will consider the clinical application of this research outcome in clinical trials or studies. Besides, the CDRD members could file over 10 patents throughout these years. Meanwhile, the CDRD is maintaining a remarkable level of community services including providing bench space and lab facilities for students of more than 5 Universities. This year and due to the pandemic covid19, CDRD continues to provide training/workshops through online webinars on the Zoom platform. We organized 5 of them and more to come. Besides, the members of the centre provide various counselling services for both national and international pharmaceutical companies. In addition, CDRD has reached several national and international institutes through ongoing scientific collaborations with almost 12 institutes including 5 international ones covering all the continents. We will resume our efforts to increase our collaborators, especially in the pharmaceutical industry.

Mission And Vision

Vision
Our vision in the CDRD is to achieve state-of-art research activities and attain fruitful interaction between pharmacy departments, BUE research centres and other national and international research institutes to provide opportunities for undergraduate, postgraduate and postdoctoral multi-disciplinary excellent research that promotes drug discovery for pharmaceutical industries & ultimately leads to innovative Egyptian Pharmaceuticals.

Mission
We are a well-established, fully equipped research centre that can effectively support and enhance the multi-disciplinary research activities in the Faculty of Pharmacy in the BUE by applying state-of-art research activities in the fields of drug discovery and the pharmaceutical industry. These research activities are enhanced by enhancing inter-disciplinary research within the University, promoting the resources of the centre, collaborating with national and international organizations, and providing training opportunities for both BUE members and other research institutes’ members to augment their research capabilities. These activities should help researchers pursue their state-of-art research and provide opportunities for young researchers to pursue their undergraduate and postgraduate studies with the ultimate goal of enhancing drug discovery, biomedical research, and the pharmaceutical industry.

Objectives

1) Support and enhance the state-of-the-art research activities for the Faculty of Pharmacy academic staff in drug discovery, biomedical research and the pharmaceutical industry.
2) Encourage and facilitate the interactions among different departments of the Faculty and other research institutes in The British University in Egypt to develop multi-disciplinary research opportunities.
3) Collaborate with national and international institutes to provide more opportunities for young researchers to pursue their postgraduate studies and for other academic staff to enhance their research activities.
4) Provide high-class training for BUE and non-BUE researchers in order to augment their research capabilities.
5) Provide continuous consultancy services for different disciplines of the Pharmaceutical industry/research.
6) Continuous enhancement and development of both financial and infrastructure resources of the centre.