By studying PhD in Biochemical Engineering and Industrial Process Leadership, Fatima Mohammed Al Mulla, 25, aims to contribute to enhancing the value of the pharmaceutical market in the UAE, “the second largest market in the Gulf”, by increasing the local production of medicines. According to Al Mulla, a student at the University of London, the local market amounted to AED 11.3 billion in 2018, an increase of 8.2%, following the facilities and privileges offered to investors in the health sector and supporting investment in Pharmaceutical sector of exports and imports ».
“The DNA-based plasmid vaccine will nourish the local pharmaceutical market and replace viral vaccines, as they are safer and more efficient than viral vaccines, which may have negative effects on body health,” believes Mulla from the UK Ministry of Education. . This plasmid will become one of the world's leading pharmaceutical industries. ”
She explained that she worked on developing a plasmid vaccine for hereditary acid, as it succeeded in making it and worked to devise a method for extracting hereditary acid, up to 96% purity, which exceeds the percentage set by the World Health Organization to use the vaccine in humans. ».
Al-Mulla's scientific ambitions are not only to strengthen the local pharmaceutical market, but also to the industrial field, according to her specialization «PhD in biochemical engineering and industrial process leadership», and is currently working on «development and expansion of production of plasmid vaccine genetic acid to include the industrial scale, which requires "Making a bioreactor for this delicate type of plasmid, which requires very extra care."
Al-Mulla obtained the approval and support of the committee of experts supervising the doctoral thesis, to move forward «to manufacture the first reactor of its kind» in this expensive project, which will take a long time to complete.
Al-Mulla, a member of the University's Ph.D. student council, said that her scientific background in biotechnology has played a very positive role in her current study.He has obtained a Bachelor of Biotechnology with distinction with honors from the University of Sharjah and two master's degrees with distinction from the University of Glasgow, UK. The first is in biotechnology, the second in business administration.
In order to make the most of the scientific benefit possible, Mulla is a teaching assistant at the University of London. She is a member of the International Organization for Students in Economics and Business (ISIC) and a member of the UAE Engineers Association. It was among the top 10 in the UAE at the secondary level in 2012, and the second in the Emirate of Umm Al Quwain.
Regarding the experience of alienation chosen by Mullah to study, remember that it is one of the most beautiful experiences that I learned a lot «Every situation, no matter how difficult or harsh it was for me a valuable lesson, until I became a different person, aware of the value of what he owns, and realizes that life is a field rich in sermons and lessons» .
Al Mulla was keen to be positive, not only at the scientific level, but also social, and has always been involved in volunteer work related to youth, especially as she is responsible for public relations in the Association of activities for doctoral students at the university « I am currently working on the establishment of the Emirates Students Association. ”
Read and be informed at leisure
Fatima Al-Mulla, who loves reading and reading in multiple sciences in her spare time of study, her fellow scholars in the UK participate in a variety of activities, including the initiative "Respond to them" organized in conjunction with the Year of Tolerance, and «London International Book Fair» last March as volunteers in a pavilion The Mohammed bin Rashid Knowledge Foundation, which honored them and appointed them ambassadors for «Arabi» initiative, in order to represent the state in British society, and represent the initiative launched by the Foundation. As well as the various events organized by the Cultural Consulate of the State in the British capital London, which serves as a meeting point between the scholarship in the United Kingdom, which reduces the sense of alienation, and away from the homeland, and the reluctance of the family and the affection of friends and family.
Fatima obtained the approval of the committee supervising the doctoral thesis to manufacture the first reactor of its kind.
She worked on developing a plasmid DNA vaccine to replace viral vaccines.