Senior Research Pharmacologist
US Food and Drug Administration
Dr. Ahmed Zidan is a senior Research Pharmacologist at the CDER/OPQ. Ahmed joined FDA in 2005 and has a Ph.D. in pharmaceutical sciences in Zagazig University in collaboration with Howard university, USA. Dr Zidan leads the topical and transdermal drug products laboratories of DPQR in OPQ and provides hands-on trainings to reviewers on various topics, including 3D printing, preformulation consideration for development of oral drug products, transdermal delivery systems and in vitro release and permeation testing of pharmaceuticals. Dr. Zidan is the government liaison for complex excipients focus group at USP and is a member of the Transdermal Working Groups of CDER and the FDA’s additive manufacturing Group and chaired several international and domestic scientific events at FDA. Dr. Zidan is also an editorial board member of several pharmaceutical journals and published over 100 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters.