He has awarded his PhD in 2011 from Bonn University, Germany, in the field of chemistry and biology of marine natural products. During 2012–2014 he had two postdoctoral fellowships in Finland (departments of Biology and Chemistry, Oulu Uni, Finland) and in France (department of marine natural products, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis). He has a record number of publications from his PhD dissertation in the field of marine drugs. He has also discovered potential and safe drugs against hepatitis C virus which is a worldwide crisis specially in Egypt. These results were applied for patenting and published in Q1 journals “J of Virology, Frontiers in Pharmacology, and Food & Function”.