Roula M Abdel Massih
University of Balamand, Lebanon
Biography
Roula AbdelMassih received her Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from the University of Glasgow, U.K. in 2001. She served as the Chair of the Department of Biology, from 2008-2011. She obtained a Certificate of Completion for the Art and Practice of Leadership Development Program (May 2016) at Harvard. She was elected as a TWAS Young Affiliate from 2011 to 2015, selected by The New York Academy of Sciences and the STS to participate in the 2015 Future Leaders program in Japan and was elected as an education fellow in the National Academies in the Life Sciences (2015-2016). Her primary research focus is on the identification of biologically active plant components (anti-proliferative, anti-bacteria).