Ahmed El-Ghannam, Ph.D.

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Dr. El-Ghannam specializes in synthesis and characterization of biomaterials for drug delivery and tissue reconstruction. His lab creates resorbable scaffolds for tissue reconstruction and to enable in vivo drug delivery to signal cells. The research activities of El-Ghannam’s lab addresses problems related to treatment of breast and liver cancer and bone infection. He routinely performs biocompatibility tests, drug release kinetics, assessment of therapeutic effects and cell function and engineering surfaces of biomaterials to stimulate cell function and tissue formation.