Education and Professional Experience

2009-present Professor, Department of Biology, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
2006-2009 Chairperson, Department of Biology, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
2004-2006 Professor, Department of Biology, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
1998-2004 Associate Professor, Department of Biology, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
1994-1998 Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
1993-1994 Senior Research Associate, Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Cleveland, Ohio
1990-1993 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Anti-Cancer Drug Laboratory, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas
1986-1989 Supervising and Coordinating Laboratory Courses in Biology and Human Anatomy and Physiology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS. 

Honors and Awards

2010       Editorial Board member of the Clinical Cancer Investigation Journal
2010       Managing Editor of the Special Issue of Frontiers in Biosciences Journal
2008       First prize: ISESCO Science Prize for contributions in Biology
2007       First prize for best poster presented at the first regional scientific conference on traditional Arabic and Islamic medicine, Jordan 
2007       First prize for best poster presented at the KHCBI-NCI-DUKE University Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Cancer Research 
                Conference, Jordan           
2004       First prize Abdul Hameed Shoman for contribution to medical sciences                     
2003       First prize Suad al-Sabbah Award for best research manuscript