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Belal Hanafy · PhD

About

Senior Scientist, Pharmaceutical Sciences at AstraZeneca.

Portrait of Belal I. Hanafy

I trained as a pharmacist in Egypt and spent the first part of my career at a bench, running the kind of iterative formulation experiments that drug delivery has traditionally depended on.

I now build predictive models for lipid nanoparticles and biologics, and help make designed experiments and modelling the ordinary way formulation work gets done, so that fewer animal studies are needed.

I am based in Cambridge, UK, where I am a Senior Scientist in Pharmaceutical Sciences at AstraZeneca.

Career

  1. Dec 2022 – present

    Senior Scientist

    AstraZeneca, Cambridge

    Pharmaceutical Sciences

  2. May 2021 – Dec 2022

    Scientist

    AstraZeneca, Cambridge

    Advanced Drug Delivery, Pharmaceutical Sciences

  3. 2018 – 2021

    Instructor and demonstrator

    Nottingham Trent University

    Chemistry, forensics and biosciences

  4. 2012 – 2015

    Registered pharmacist

    Egypt and Saudi Arabia

    Ministry of Health and Population; Al Qubani Pharmacy, Riyadh

Contact and records

The most complete and current record of my publications is my ORCID profile. For a collaboration, a talk, or a question about the work here, email is best.

ORCID
0000-0001-5356-8458
Email
bhanafy90 @ gmail.com
LinkedIn
belalhanafy