Natural Remedies in Disease Management and Treatment

Natural Remedies in Disease Management and Treatment explores the preclinical and clinical aspects of herbal remedies, focusing on common diseases treated and managed with natural solutions.

Mostafa Mahmoud Hegazy is an Associate Professor of Pharmacognosy and Medicinal Plants Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt and Vice Dean for Education and Student Affairs, Faculty of Pharmacy, Sinai University, Arish, Egypt. Dr. Hegazy obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry of Medicinal Plants from Al-Azhar University (Cairo, 2015). He continued his post-doctoral research in collaboration with ranked universities such as the University of Mississippi (USA), Technische Universitaet Braunschweig (Germany), University of Granada (Spain), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (Malaysia) and Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (China). From 2016, he was a Visiting Professor (part-time) at many universities, such as Egyptian Russian University, Port Said University and Al-Ahram Canadian University.
Dr. Hegazy published 30 research papers and reviews in international peer-reviewed journals and 6 book chapters (Scopus h-index is 7 and 265 citations). Since 2015, Dr. Hegazy has been a reviewer for several highly cited international journals, such as Medicina, Molecules, Diagnostics, Journal of Clinical Medicine and Biology of MDPI as a Reviewer Board Member. He is currently serving as an Editorial Board Member and Associate Editor for the Journal of Umm Al-Qura University for Medical Science, Sinai International Scientific Journal (SISJ), Guest Editor for the Journal of Evidence-Based Integrative Medicine (JEBIM) and Scientific Consultant for many Egyptian Pharmaceutical companies.
He received several prizes at the Scientific Excellence Day organized by the Syndicate of the Egyptian Pharmacists (2011) and at the Scientific Excellence Day for Using Technology in Education organized by Pharmacognosy and Medicinal Plants Dept., Faculty of Pharmacy, Al-Azhar University (2016).
Mohamed Fawzy Ramadan is a Professor of Food Chemistry and Biochemistry at the Department of Clinical Nutrition, Faculty of Applied Medical Science, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia.
Prof. Ramadan obtained his Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) in Food Chemistry from the Berlin University of Technology (Germany, 2004). Prof. Ramadan continued his post-doctoral research at ranked universities such as the University of Helsinki (Finland), Max-Rubner Institute (Germany), Berlin University of Technology (Germany), and the University of Maryland (USA). In 2012, he was appointed as a Visiting Professor (100% teaching) in the School of Biomedicine, Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok, Russian Federation.
Prof. Ramadan published more than 400 research papers and reviews in international peer-reviewed journals. He also edited and published several books and book chapters (Scopus h-index is 50 and more than 9000 citations). He was an invited speaker at several international conferences. Since 2003, Prof. Ramadan has been a reviewer and editor in several highly-cited international journals, such as the Journal of Medicinal Food, eFood, Journal of Umm Al-Qura University for Applied Sciences and Journal of Advanced Research. He is the editor-in-chief of Journal of Umm Al-Qura University for Medical Science.
Prof. Ramadan received several prizes, including Abdul Hamid Shoman Prize for Arab Researcher in Agricultural Sciences (2006), the Egyptian State Prize for Encouragement in Agricultural Sciences (2009), European Young Lipid Scientist Award (2009), AU-TWAS Young Scientist National Awards (Egypt) in Basic Sciences, Technology and Innovation (2012), TWAS-ARO Young Arab Scientist (YAS) Prize in Scientific and Technological Achievement (2013), and Atta-ur-Rahman Prize in Chemistry (2014).