Metabolomics & Systems Biology

Biography

Prof: Ashour Saleh Eljamil was born and raised in Tripoli, Libya. He received his Ph.D. in 1988 from the Biochemistry Department, University College Dublin, National University of Ireland, where his interest in lipid biochemistry started. In February 1989 he joined the Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tripoli, Tripoli, Libya, where he is full professor and was head of department from 2005 to 2007. In 1991, he headed the Biochemistry Department at the Medical Laboratory of Salahudeen Hospital in Tripoli. He was director of Medical Laboratory Department and Biochemistry unit at Tripoli Medical Centre from 1996 to 2004. He has presented papers at several scientific meetings in Dublin, Ireland (1986) and was an invited speaker at International Conferences on Drug Discovery and Therapy in Dubai, UAE in 2012, 2013 and 2014, and made presentations on low density lipoprotein-cholesterol, cholesterol and diet ,and serum lipid patterns in type 2 diabetes mellitus. Also plenary speaker, (Effects of Dietary Plant Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids), at The Maghrebian-Finnish Biotechnology Symposium (MFBS 2016). March 19-22, 2016 at Hammamet City, Tunisia and plenary speaker, (Effects of Dietary Plant Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids), at The Maghrebian-Finnish Biotechnology Symposium (MFBS 2018). March 19-22, 2018 at Helsinki, Finland, http://mfbs-2018. He has published papers on the effects of dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids and of pyridoxal-5-phosphate on platelet aggregation and on serum low density lipoprotein cholesterol, in international and regional journals. He has been a frequent visiting professor at Universities in Benghazi, Zawia , Sirte, and Musrata, Libya. He is editorial member of more than international journal. Recently, he published his Lipid Biochemistry for Medical Sciences book by iuniverse in U.S.A

Research Interest

His current research interest include in lipid biochemistry.