Research Interest
Dr. Mohamad Aljofan graduated with a BSc (Pharmaceutical Sciences) (Honors) from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Melbourne (Australia). He has a Master’s Degree in Clinical Pharmacy and a PhD in drug discovery that was conducted at Australia’s highest research institute “The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation”. Dr. Aljofan did his Postdoctoral training at Prince Henry’s Institute of Medical Research and the School of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University- Australia. After, he became the Vice Dean and Department Chair of Clinical Pharmacy at the University of Hail in Saudi Arabia where he established his mixed Clinical and Basic research group. His Clinical research focuses on medication adherence and public health and his Basic research interests revolve around drug discovery and development, particularly early drug discovery. Dr. Aljofan received several research grants and funding from different sources including the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, Monash University, University of Hail and KACST in Saudi Arabia. He is a recipient of many awards and recognitions including the prestigious Australian NHMRC- Postdoctoral Fellowship, CSIRO-Postgraduate Scholarship and RMIT Undergraduate Scholarship.
Anticancer activity of metformin: a systematic review of the literature.
Aljofan M, Riethmacher D.
Future Sci OA. 2019 Aug 22;5(8):FSO410. doi: 10.2144/fsoa-2019-0053. Review.
Metformin: A stroke of luck.
M Aljofan, A Gaipov
Electronic Journal of General Medicine 16 (3). 2019.
Knowledge, awareness, attitude and practice of healthcare professionals towards hepatitis B disease and vaccination
TM Alshammari, M Aljofan, G Subaie, T Hussain, GM Subaiea. 2019.
Development and validation of a simple and sensitive HPLC method for the determination of liquid form of therapeutic substances.
Alkhamaisah, SI, Kareem M.Y, Gaipov, A, Aljofan, M. Electron J Gen Med 2019;16(3).
Viral entry inhibitors targeted to the membrane site of action
M Porotto, CC Yokoyama, LM Palermo, B Mungall, M Aljofan, R Cortese, Journal of virology 84 (13), 6760-6768.
Development and validation of a chemiluminescent immunodetection assay amenable to high throughput screening of antiviral drugs for Nipah and Hendra virus
M Aljofan, M Porotto, A Moscona, BA Mungall. Journal of virological methods 149 (1), 12-19
A high-throughput in vitro model of human embryo attachment
H Ho, H Singh, M Aljofan, G Nie. Fertility and sterility 97 (4), 974-978
Kinetic dependence of paramyxovirus entry inhibition
M Porotto, CC Yokoyama, G Orefice, HS Kim, M Aljofan, BA Mungall. Journal of virology 83 (13), 6947-6951