Ahmed Awad

Ahmed Awad serves as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at California State University Channel Islands, where he teaches Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry, General Chemistry, and Quantitative Analysis courses across lecture and laboratory formats.

His educational background includes a Ph.D. from the University of Ulm in Germany, followed by postdoctoral research fellowships at Iowa State University and the University of California Santa Barbara.

Dr. Awad's research focuses on synthesizing modified nucleosides, nucleotides, and therapeutic nucleic acids for anticancer applications targeting pancreatic and prostate cancers, while simultaneously developing real-time gene expression monitoring techniques for early cancer detection. This interdisciplinary work integrates medicinal chemistry, chemical biology, and oncology to create novel therapeutic and diagnostic approaches.

Though specific advising details and grant information are not documented in available materials, his scholarly efforts consistently advance cancer treatment methodologies through chemical innovation and biological application.