PhD student
University of Iowa
Hesham Refaat (he/him/his), MSc (Pharmaceutics)
Hesham received his Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Sciences and his Master of Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery from Minia University in 2016 and 2020 respectively. Hesham worked as a production pharmacist in a sterile manufacturing facility in Cairo, Egypt. After that, He shifted to academia and worked as a teaching associate in the pharmaceutics department at Deraya University where he conducted his research on enhancing the delivery of compounds from natural sources before joining the graduate program at the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Experimental Therapeutics at the University of Iowa. His current research work involves the characterization and formulation of proteins and biosimilar products.