Dr. Bilal Ali Al-Jaidi

Personal information:

  • Date of birth: 16th January 1977.
  • Marital status: Married.
  • Nationality: Jordanian.
  • Address: Faculty of Pharmacy

Philadelphia University

Amman, 19392

Jordan,

Tel: +962 6 4799000/ Ext. 2328

Mobile: +962772338398.

Educational information:

  • PhD in Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Design, November 2010, University of Strathclyde, UK.

Thesis title: Design and Development of New Anti-Trypanosomal Agents.

Supervisors: Prof. Simon P. Mackay and Dr. Geoffrey Coxon.

Project: In this research we have used computer aided drug design and molecular modeling to design novel anti-trypanosomal agents to combat the human African trypanosomiasis. Ligand based drug design was used in finding the suitable chemical scaffold for the compounds being synthesized. These compounds were tested on the whole parasite in vitro and most of them have shown promising sub-micromolaractivites. The compounds having imidazole, benzimidazole, benzothiazole, indole and thiazole scaffolds.

  • Master Degree in Pharmacy, Medicinal chemistry and Pharmacognosy, (GPA, 87.6), 2005, Faculty of Pharmacy, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan.

Title: Design, Synthesis and Antimicrobial Evaluation of 3-aminobenzenesulfonamide derivatives.

Supervisors: Dr. AmjadQandil and Prof. Mohammad Hassan

Project: This work resulted in the synthesis of derivatives that had shown a promising activity against Candida albicans with minimum inhibitory activity reached to 16g with limited activity against bacteria, so they had a selective activity against fungi. Also during that work I did the microbiological testing by myself, which is the macrodilution susceptibility testing against Candida, Pseudomonas¸E.coli, and Bacillus following the NCCLS standards for that procedure.

  • Bachelor degree in Pharmacy, (GPA, 81.5), 2000

Faculty of Pharmacy

Jordan University of science and technology

P.O. Box 3030

Irbid22110

JORDAN

  • Secondary education(GPA, 96.1), 1995.

Jerash secondary school

Jerash

JORDAN

Work Experiences:

  • From 28th November till now: Assistant Professor in the faculty of Pharmacy, Philadelphia University:

Lecturing in Medicinal Chemistry topics (Medicinal Chemistry-1,2 and 3 in addition to drug design topics).

Supervising in the Medicinal Chemistry practical courses.

  • Five semesters as part time lecturer (10/2005-6/2007) in Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy department, faculty of Pharmacy, JUST. (Pharmaceutical Analytical Chemistry lab, Pharm 227, and Pharmaceutical Organic Chemistry lab, Pharm 224). My responsibility was to teach the theoretical and the practical part of various laboratory experiments in organic and analytical chemistry techniques. Many techniques had been taught in those courses such as, distillation, extraction and recrystallization in addition to the use of some instrumental equipment, such as UV, NMR, IR and melting point apparatus.
  • During the Master degree Study, I was working as teaching assistant for two years in Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy department, Faculty of Pharmacy, JUST. During that I supervised and demonstrated in Pharmaceutical Organic Chemistry lab, and Pharmaceutical Analytical Chemistry lab.

Other Experiences:

  • I have a good knowledge in the use of most of the spectrometric analysis instruments including NMR, IR and UV. I worked in these devices during my master degree study, through my teaching experience and during my current PhD study.
  • I have a good experience in how to biologically test certain compounds to find their Antimicrobial activities including the antibacterial and the antifungal activities, this by running the following methods:

Microdilution and macrodilution susceptibility testing.

Antibacterial Disc diffusion method.

Antibacterial Hole diffusion method.

IT Skills:

  • I have extensive knowledge in all Microsoft office programs.
  • I am also proficient in a range of chemistry software including ChemDraw and ChemSkitch, Accelrys®visualizer, and Pymol®

Interests:

  • I frequently play football with friends.
  • I play badminton from time to time.
  • I listen to soft music and watch TV, especially football games.

Conferences and symposiums

  • EaStCHEM Organic Chemistry meets Chemical Biology Symposium, School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, UK, 29th April 2009.
  • 7th Glasgow International Symposium on Synthetic Chemistry, Department of Applied Chemistry, University of Glasgow, UK, 3rd September 2009. The title of the poster presented was: Towards Selective and Safe Anti-tuberculosis Agents.
  • Cancer Research UK Medicinal Chemistry Training Program, Newcastle University, UK, 4th November 2009.
  • Biological and Medicinal Chemistry 3rd Postgraduate Symposium. University of Cambridge, UK, 11th December 2009. The Title of the oral presentation given was: Towards Selective Anti-tuberculosis Agents.
  • RSC Perkin Meeting for Scottish Universities, University of Dundee, UK, 16th December 2009.

Publications:

  • Qosay Al-Balas,Nahoum G. Anthony, Bilal Al-Jaidi, AmaniAlnimr, Grainne Abbott, Alistair K. Brown, Rebecca C. Taylor, Gurdyal S. Besra, Timothy D. McHugh, Stephen H. Gillespie, Blair F. Johnston, Simon P. Mackay, Geoffrey D. Coxon;Identification of 2-Aminothiazole-4-Carboxylate Derivatives Active against Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv and the β-Ketoacyl-ACP SynthasemtFabH, PloS One Journal, Volume 4, Issue 5, 2009.
  • Amjad M. Qandil, Mohammad A. Hassan, and Bilal A. Al-Jeaidi. Design and Synthesis of a Series of 3-aminobenzenesulfonamide Derivatives and their Screening for Antimicrobial and Cytotoxicity Activity. Jordan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Volume 1, Issue 1, 2008, 41-54.