Young Affiliate
Sunoqrot Suhair
Associate Professor
Current nationality
Jordan
Current country of residence
Jordan
Affiliation / Institution
Al-Zaytoonah University of Jordan
Biodata
Suhair Sunoqrot is an Associate Professor of Drug Delivery and Nanomedicine at Al-Zaytoonah University of Jordan’s (ZUJ) Faculty of Pharmacy. She holds a BS in Pharmacy from the University of Jordan in 2007, and a PhD in Biopharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2013. Her research focuses on the development of nanoscale solutions to tackle delivery challenges of poorly water-soluble drug candidates, with special interest in the valorization of plant polyphenols both as therapeutic agents and as nanomaterial building blocks. She has authored more than 40 peer-reviewed publications in reputable journals and currently holds the highest number of citations across ZUJ and the highest H-index at the Faculty of Pharmacy. Notably, she was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Daniel Turnberg Fellow at King’s College London. She received the PhosAgro/UNESCO/IUPAC Green Chemistry for Life Award and the TWAS Prize for Young Scientists from Jordan in 2018. She is currently the only Jordanian member of the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA) (2019-) and a TWAS Young Affiliate (2021-).
Sustainable Development Goals
AFFILIATED FROM
2021
AFFILIATED UNTIL
2026
Country of birth
Jordan
Section
03. Medical & Health Sciences
TWAS Regional Office
TWAS Arab Regional Partner (TWAS-AREP)
Suhair Sunoqrot_CV.pdf
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Country where living and working for the majority of the last 10 years
Jordan
Public contact information
Last updated on 12/07/2023