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African Scientist in
the Diaspora
DR Mohamed Hassan Alin
MD DTMH PhD
Dr.Mohamed Hassan Alin,was born in
Somaliland and did his medical degree
at the Faculty of Medici ne National University, Mogadish, Somalia.
He then moved to Sweden and did his PhD
in Clinical Phar macology in a joint project on Artemisinin
metabolism and pharmacokinetics involving the Dept of
Ph armacokinetics and Pharmacotheraperutics, Uppsala University,
Uppsala, Sweden and Dept of Infec tious Diseases,
Huddinge University Hospital,
Karolinksa Institute, Stovckholm, Sweden.
Dr. Alin spent over
10 years as a
researcher in Uppsala University / Karolinska
Institute in clinical p harmacology with clinical field work
(efficacy, safety and
pharmacokinetics of antimalrials and speci ally artemisinin
compounds) in collaboration with Dar Es Salaam
University Hospital ,Tanzania. He
the refore has solid experience of field work on clinical trials in
the Tropics.
He has
published over 25 papers in peer
reviewed journals and has made many presentations at
int ernational conferences. He is also a
member of the Swedish Academy of
Pharmaceutical Scien ces.
In 1997
he joined AstraZeneca
Pharmaceutical Company in Sweden as a
Scientific Adviser in clinic al
pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamics and drug metabolism in the
Department of Clinical Pharma col ogy. He is currently a
Senior Scientific Adviser in the same
department.
With over 8 year of clinical
pharmacology experience from AstraZeneca
pharmaceutical company, Dr. Alin has
developed a broad scope of expertise in
the following areas:
(a)
the preclinical and clinical drug development process
(b)
design and execution of clinical trials
(c)
pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamic modeling and
(d)
interaction with drug regulatory authorities
and ethics committees towards the
approval of new drug applications (NDA).
Besides his proven leadership
skills, Dr. Alin has a great ability to
interact and collaborate with people of different scientific
backgrounds and cultural diversity.
As testimony of his international
citizenship, he speaks five languages !!
- English
- Swedish
- Italian
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Arabic
-
Somali
Senior Clinical Pharmacology Scientist
Section of Clinical Pharmacology,
Department of Medical science
AstraZeneca Clinical Research &
Development, Mölndal
S- 431 83 Mölndal, Sweden
Source:AIBST
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