Rate My Professor Mohamed Elsawy

Dr Mohamed Elsawy is a Lecturer in Pharmaceutical Sciences in the Division of Pharmacy and Optometry at the University of Manchester. He earned a Bachelor of Pharmacy from the Faculty of Pharmacy at Cairo University in 2004 and a Postgraduate Diploma in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from the same institution in 2007. He obtained his PhD in Peptide Medicinal Chemistry from the School of Pharmacy at Queen’s University Belfast in 2012. Following his doctorate, he completed a short-term postdoctoral fellowship at the Institut Européen de Chimie et Biologie, University of Bordeaux, in 2013. From 2014 to 2017, he held an EPSRC-funded postdoctoral research associate position in the Polymers and Peptides Research Group at the University of Manchester.

In 2017, Dr Elsawy was appointed Lecturer in Pharmaceutics at the University of Central Lancashire, where he established the Peptide BioNanomaterials Group. He moved to De Montfort University in 2020 as Senior Lecturer in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Head of Postgraduate Research Students at the Leicester Institute for Pharmaceutical Innovation before returning to the University of Manchester in 2024. His research focuses on the molecular self-assembly of peptides into bio-inspired nanostructures for pharmaceutical, biomedical and biotechnological applications, including the development of ultrashort ionic-complementary constrained peptides that form β-sheet nanofibres for hydrogels, drug delivery systems and tissue engineering scaffolds. He is a Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Materials Research Society and the United Kingdom Society of Biomaterials, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Dr Elsawy serves on editorial boards for Frontiers in Nanobiotechnology, Frontiers in Chemistry and Pharmaceutics.