Tarek Abdelghany is an Egyptian Pharmacist, Lecturer, and Researcher, born in Cairo, Egypt in 1989. Tarek has more than 10 years of teaching and research experience across different Universities in Egypt and the UK.
Tarek is one of the executive members of the Medical Consultancy Council of Hayah Kareema in Egypt (Egyptian Presidential initiative). He is involved in three different multidiscipline research projects related to Drug Discovery and Targeting and Environmental Toxicology “Collaboration between scientists from Newcastle University, Cairo University, the University of Aberdeen, Cambridge University, Imperial College, Northumbria University, Dresden University and Freeman Hospital”.
Tarek joined Newcastle University in September 2017 for his PhD studies (awarded in 2021). During his time at Newcastle, he worked in research and teaching across Biomedical and Pharmacy Schools, published several papers, was awarded a £30K ICURe grant, initiated several successful international research collaborations, and was nominated by students for Educational awards for two academic years. He was awarded the UK Higher Education Associate Teaching Fellowship (D1) in 2019 and received the FHEA (D2) recognition (June 2021).
Tarek graduated with a bachelor degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Egypt in 2011 (ranked amongst the top 100 schools of pharmacy worldwide) and was one of the top-ranked students in his cohort. He was appointed to the position of Pharmacology Lecturer/Research Assistant (2012-2017) and gained his masters in Pharmacology with honours in 2015. He attended various training programmes and internships across several universities and pharmaceutical companies in many countries. Tarek is one of the Alumni of the National Training Academy (NTA) in Egypt. He graduated from the Egyptian Presidential Leadership Programme (PLP) in 2016 and joined the Egyptian Executive Presidential Leadership Programme (EPLP) in 2017.