Tutor information
Amr Abdelgany
Amr is an Associate Senior Tutor at the Department who has worked on gene therapy since his DPhil at Oxford. He then continued his research at Oxford exploring novel genetic methods for discovery of new therapies. Amr has taught for the Department since 2012.
Courses
Medicinal products are developed from nature and may offer therapeutic benefit. This day school is designed to provide an understanding and insight into how medicinal products are discovered and developed into approved pharmaceutical agents for human use.
Our genes control our biological processes, and scientists are decoding their role in disease development to identify new clues for novel therapies. Gene technologies offer a new Personalized Medicine approach of treating patients as individuals.
Genome sequencing (Genomics) offer new opportunities for potential applications in healthcare and perhaps suggesting new therapies for diseases that were not treatable before.
DNA preserves our body’s information through a combination of (approx) 24,000 known genes. Understanding genes and their role in diseases has scientists eagerly investigating their potentials in future personalized medicine through gene and stem cell.
Fast-growing advances in gene technologies are shaping biomedical science. A long list of emerging technologies have been developed. Explore the basics about gene technologies and their applications in medicine discoveries.