Faculty

Dr. Naglaa Gamil Shehab is a Professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Department at Dubai Pharmacy College for Girls, UAE, and a Professor in the Pharmacognosy Department at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Egypt. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences in 1991, her Master's in Pharmacognosy in 1999, and her PhD in 2004, all from Cairo University. Dr. Naglaa was promoted to Professor at Dubai Pharmacy College for Girls in 2015 and at Cairo University in 2018. With over 30 years of teaching experience, she has held various leadership positions in both institutions, including Head of the Admission Committee, Student Affairs, Curriculum Development, Faculty Development, and Research Unit. She also served as Chief Academic Officer at Dubai Pharmacy College for Girls and finally as Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, at Dubai Pharmacy College for Girls.

Dr. Naglaa is a member of the American Society of Pharmacognosy and holds certifications in nutrition and health. She introduced a pioneering course on "Natural Medicines, Safety, and Efficacy" at Dubai Pharmacy College, which focuses on drug-herb interactions and supplement quality control, a first of its kind in the Arab region. Her role as Associate Dean of Academic Affairs has provided her with extensive experience in community, industrial, and hospital training, enabling her to collaborate effectively with training heads at Dubai Pharmacy College.

Dr. Naglaa has received prestigious research awards from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Amsterdam in the field of Natural Products. She has been recognized among the top two thousand scientists in the UAE. As a reviewer for numerous international journals in natural products, she has published over 40 scientific papers in impact factor journals. To continuously advance her career, she regularly participates in workshops, seminars, webinars, and conferences in the field of education.

• Ph.D. in Pharmacognosy from Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Egypt in 2004
• MSc in Pharmacognosy from Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Egypt in 1999
• B. Pharm from Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Egypt 1991

• Extraction, Isolation, characterization, and Phytochemical Investigation of the Medicinal plants.
• Evaluation of different biological activities of natural products.
• Food or herbs drug interaction

• Naglaa Gamil Shehab ,Temidayo S. Omolaoye ,Stefan S. Du Plessis ,et al,  Phytochemical Evaluation of Lepidium meyenii, Trigonella foenum-graecum, Spirulina platensis, and Tribulus arabica, and Their Potential Effect on Monosodium Glutamate Induced Male Reproductive Dysfunction in Adult Wistar Rats, Antioxidants 2024, 13, 939. https://doi.org/10.3390/ antiox13080939
• Hanan S. Anbar,  Naglaa Gamil Shehab, et el, The wound healing and hypoglycemic activates of date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) leaf extract and saponins in diabetic and normal rats, PLOS ONE September 23, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0308879
•  Huda Jamal AlMadalli; Kaisar Raza; Bazigha K. Abdul Rasool; Naglaa Gamil Shehab; Francesca Della Sala; Assunta Borzacchiello, Pomegranate extract-loaded sphingosomes for the treatment of cancer: Phytochemical investigations, formulation, and antitumor activity evaluation, PLOS ONE 2024-02-12 | Journal article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0293115
• Lara J Bou Malhab , Khuloud Bajbouj , Naglaa G Shehab , Salma M Elayoty , Jithna Sinoj , Eman Abu-Gharbieh..etal,  Potential Anticancer Properties of Calotropis procera: An Investigation on Breast and Colon Cancer Cells, Heliyon, 26;9(6):e16706, 2023. 
• Hanan S. Anbara, Naglaa G. Shehaba, Nadia M.M. El, et al., RoubUpadacitinib protects against cisplatin-induced renal and hepatic dysfunction without impairing its anticancer activity, European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 172, 2022.
• Waseem A, Naglaa Gamil Shehab et.al, Micromeri fruticosa Induces Cell Cycle Arrest and Apoptosis in Breast and Colorectal Cancer Cells, Pharmaceuticals, 13(6), 115, 2020.
• Eman Abu-Gharbieh, Naglaa G. Shehab, Ihab M. Almasri, Yasser Bustanji, Antihyperuricemic and xanthine oxidase inhibitory activities of Tribulus arabicus and its isolated compound, ursolic acid: In vitro and in vivo investigation and docking simulations, PLoS ONE 13(8):e0202572, 2018.
• Eman Abu-Gharbieh and Naglaa Gamil Shehab, Therapeutic potentials of Crataegus azarolus var. eu- azarolus Maire leaves and its isolated compounds, BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 17:218, 2017.
• Eman Abu-Gharbieh and Naglaa G Ahmed, Bioactive content, hepatoprotective and antioxidant activities of whole plant extract of Micromeria fruticosa (L) Druce ssp Serpyllifolia F. Lamiaceae against Carbone terachloride-induced hepatotoxicity in mice, Tropical Journal of Pharmaceutical Research 15 (10): 2099-2106, 2016.
• Naglaa Shehab, Eman Abu-Gharbeih & Fatehia Byoumi, Impact of phenolic composition on hepatoprotective and antioxidant effects of four desert medicinal plants, BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 15:401 DOI 10.1186/s12906-015-0919-6, 2015.