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Mohamed Elsawy

Lecturer in Pharmaceutics

Biomaterials, Peptide Chemistry, Drug Delivery, Pharmaceutics, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Cancer Therapeutics

PhD Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, Queen’s University of Belfast, 2012 PGDip Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, 2007 BPharm (Hons.), Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, 2004

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  1. Milani, Amir H., Fielding, Lee A., Greensmith, Polly, Saunders, Brian R., Adlam, Daman J., Freemont, Anthony J., Hoyland, Judith A., Hodson, Nigel W., Elsawy, Mohamed orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-3964-2150 et al (2017) Anisotropic pH-Responsive Hydrogels Containing Soft or Hard Rod-Like Particles Assembled Using Low Shear. Chemistry of Materials, 29 (7). pp. 3100-3110. ISSN 0897-4756
  2. Gao, Jie, Tang, Claire, Elsawy, Mohamed orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-3964-2150, Smith, Andrew M., Miller, Aline F. and Saiani, Alberto (2017) Controlling Self-Assembling Peptide Hydrogel Properties through Network Topology. Biomacromolecules, 18 (3). pp. 826-834. ISSN 1525-7797
  3. Elsawy, Mohamed orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-3964-2150, Smith, Andrew M., Hodson, Nigel, Squires, Adam, Miller, Aline F. and Saiani, Alberto (2016) Modification of β-Sheet Forming Peptide Hydrophobic Face: Effect on Self-Assembly and Gelation. Langmuir, 32 (19). pp. 4917-4923. ISSN 0743-7463
  4. Castillo Diaz, L. A., Elsawy, Mohamed orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-3964-2150, Saiani, A., Gough, J. E. and Miller, A. F. (2016) Osteogenic differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells promotes mineralization within a biodegradable peptide hydrogel. Journal of Tissue Engineering, 7 . ISSN 2041-7314
  5. Elsawy, Mohamed orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-3964-2150, Tikhonova, Irina, Martin, Lorraine and Walker, Brian (2015) Smac-Derived Aza-Peptide As an Aminopeptidase-Resistant XIAP BIR3 Antagonist. Protein and Peptide Letters, 22 (9). pp. 836-843. ISSN 0929-8665
  6. Elsawy, Mohamed orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-3964-2150, Martin, Lorraine, Tikhonova, Irina G. and Walker, Brian (2013) Solid phase synthesis of Smac/DIABLO-derived peptides using a ‘Safety-Catch’ resin: Identification of potent XIAP BIR3 antagonists. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, 21 (17). pp. 5004-5011. ISSN 0968-0896
  7. Elsawy, Mohamed orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-3964-2150, Hewage, Chandralal and Walker, Brian (2012) Racemisation of N-Fmoc phenylglycine under mild microwave-SPPS and conventional stepwise SPPS conditions: attempts to develop strategies for overcoming this. Journal of Peptide Science, 18 (5). pp. 302-311. ISSN 1075-2617
  8. Wychowaniec, Jacek K., Iliut, Maria, Zhou, Mi, Moffat, Jonathan, Elsawy, Mohamed orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-3964-2150, Pinheiro, Wagner A., Hoyland, Judith A., Miller, Aline F., Vijayaraghavan, Aravind et al (2018) Designing Peptide/Graphene Hybrid Hydrogels through Fine-Tuning of Molecular Interactions. Biomacromolecules, 19 (7). pp. 2731-2741. ISSN 1525-7797
  9. Yamamoto, Masaya, Burgess, Kyle A., Workman, Victoria L., Elsawy, Mohamed orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-3964-2150, Miller, Aline F., Oceandy, Delvac and Saiani, Alberto (2018) RNA extraction from self-assembling peptide hydrogels to allow qPCR analysis of encapsulated cells. PloS one, 13 (6). e0197517. ISSN 1932-6203