Senior Staff Fellow (Pharmacologist)
US Food and Drug Administration
Dr. Ahmed Zidan is a senior staff fellow (Pharmacologist) in the CDER/OPQ. Ahmed joined FDA in 2005 and has MS and Ph.D. in pharmaceutical sciences. Dr Zidan leads the manufacturing laboratories and research of Division of Product Quality Research in Office of Pharmaceutical Quality and provides hands-on trainings to reviewers on various topics, including analytical metrices of complex drug products, Preformulation, 3D printing technologies, continuous manufacturing, preclinical development and scale up processes. Dr. Zidan is the government liaison for complex excipients focus group at USP and is a member of the FDA’s additive manufacturing Group and chaired several international and domestic scientific events. Dr. Zidan is also an editorial board member of several pharmaceutical journals and published over 115 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters.