Fouzi Mouffouk
Kuwait University, Kuwait
Biography
Fouzi Mouffouk is an Associate Professor in Department of Chemistry at Kuwait University. His research activities are focused on the field of “Nanotechnology and biomedical (designing and fabricating self-assembled nanomaterials and their application in: medical imaging, regenerative medicine and biosensor technology and biosensors)”. He completed his MS and PhD at University of Montpellier II France. After his PhD, he spent three years as a Research Scientist at Centre for BioArray Innovation, which is one of the four consortiums for Post Genome Sciences in UK and; he was responsible for the development of new biosensor devices. He was involved in many projects related to the development of nano-probes for cancer early detection using ultrasounds and MR imaging at Rush Hospital in Chicago, USA. After that, he was appointed as Senior Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory where he worked on a project called artificial life (or living technology) with NASA Institute of Astrobiology, to design and assess the performance of artificial genes that support the functionalities of these proto-cells (gene self-replication and gene implication in the proto-cell metabolism). After that, he was appointed as an Associate Professor at Institute for Biotechnology and Bioengineering Centre for Molecular and Structural Biomedicine, University of Algarve, Portugal.