The college of Pharmacy congratulate Prof. Alaa AlJabali for being ranked among the top 2% of researchers in the world “for the year 2023” according to the scientific researchers’ database of unified citation indices prepared by Stanford University and the international publishing house “Elsevier”, according to several factors, the most important of which is international scientific publishing, the number of scientific citations to research, and participation in reviewing and editing scientific research in established journals.

It is noteworthy that Prof. Alaa AlJabali has published more than 100 research papers in peer-reviewed international scientific fields, and he is a member of more than one research group worldwide.

Prof. Alaa AlJabali holds a Ph.D. in nanotechnology from the University of East Anglia\United Kingdom, and did post-doctoral research at the University of Oxford.

We are proud of this achievement and wish him continued progress and excellence.

On Sunday, 01 Oct 2023, the first qualitative training course entitled “Cell Transplantation Technology” was opened in the presence of the Dean of the College of Pharmacy, Prof.Dr. Fadia Mayas, the Director of the Queen Rania Center, Dr. Abdel Basset Athamneh, and a number of faculty members at the College of Pharmacy in Yarmouk University in cooperation with the Queen Rania Center, and was moderated by Dr. Ali Hamidat, Assistant Dean for Student Affairs.

This week-long training work shop was designed to provide participants with a solid foundation in cell culture techniques and equip them with the high-quality skills and knowledge necessary to conduct cell culture experiments. It covered the basic cell culture principles, techniques and applications. Participants in this course will learn the basics of cell preservation, including techniques for multiplying, storing, monitoring cell growth and counting.

A meeting was held between college’s academic and administrative staff on the first day of the new academic year 2023/2024, which took place on Sunday, 01 Oct 2023. The meeting included a welcome speech from the Dean of the College of Pharmacy, Prof. Dr. Fadia Mayas.

As a part of his tour at Yarmouk University, which was organized in cooperation with the Tourism Promotion Authority at the Ministry of Tourism and included medical colleges and various facilities at Yarmouk University, Dr. Qasim Younis, a Palestinian dentist and influencer, visited the College of Pharmacy with the aim of encouraging educational tourism and to attract Palestinian students to study in the pharmacy program.

A brief presentation of the college’s history, achievements, programs, and teaching plans were proposed by the Dean of the College, Prof. Dr. Fadia Mayas and faculty members. Also means of cooperation and the possibility of attracting students to the international program at the College of Pharmacy at Yarmouk University were discussed. The visit included an introductory tour of the college’s facilities, including teaching and research halls and laboratories, smart halls, in addition to the simulated pharmacy.

At the end of the meeting Dr. Qasim Younis expressed his great admiration for the college building, its program, plans, and achievements.

It is worth noting that the vision of Yarmouk University and its strategic plan aims to attract the largest possible number of students from various countries to be enrolled in different programs as the university decided to treat new international program students the same as Jordanian students in the parallel program for accepted students, starting from the first semester of this academic year.

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A fruitful partnership between the faculty of pharmacy presented by the faculty dean Prof. Mervat Alsous and the Continuity Company for Software and Information Technology was established. The faculty was granted the updated version of Galaxy management software, which is considered one of the most important pharmacy management programs in Jordan for more than 25 years. This aims to train out students to use the same software established in many community pharmacies and to better qualify them for the labor market.

A delegation from the Faculty of Pharmacy - Yarmouk University, headed by the Dean of the Faculty, Prof. Mervat Al-Sous, and a number of faculty members participated in the activities of the conference, which was held from 7-8 June.

During the conference Dr. Ali Hmedat presented a scientific paper on the sidelines of the conference.

The training committee of the college of Pharmacy at Yarmouk University held a practical clinical skill exam for the students of the training course on Sunday 28 th of May 2023.

Under the patronage of Prof. Dr. Mervat Al-Sous the Faculty of Pharmacy has held an oath-taking ceremony for their graduate students which also included the graduation books ceremony on 5/23/2023 in the auditorium of the Faculties of Medicine and Pharmacy. The ceremony was initiated by a speech from the dean of the faculty then a speech from the assistant dean for student affairs Dr. Rawan Sharideh, and the valedictorian speech. The ceremony was attended by students expected to graduate and a number of faculty members in the college who shared some advice with their students on how to make the most out of the upcoming stage.

Under the supervision of Dr. Derar Al- Omari, Dr. Meriem Rezigue and Dr. Hadeia Mashaqbeh, the faculty of pharmacy at Yarmouk university regulated a scientific visiting into The Jordan Research and Training Reactor (JRTR)  that is located in the campus of Jordan University of Science and Technology at Al-Ramtha city in northern Jordan on 10-1-2023. 

The visit aimed to enhance the knowledge of the students toward the reactor and how it is enrolled in the course of Advanced pharmaceutical technology to the methods of manufacturing the radiopharmaceuticals.