She graduated from Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Egypt and received the PhD from the same college. She is a member of American Society of Pharmacognosy and Italo-Latin American Society of Ethnomedicine and serving as an Editorial Board Member in Natural Products Chemistry and Research. Also, she is a reviewer for many international journals concerning chemistry and biological activity of medicinal plants. She published at least 30 scientific papers also contributed in publication of a scientific book and her field of interest is bioactivity of medicinal plants.