Sharjah24: As part of the UAE Innovation Month, a doctoral student at the University of Sharjah, Shaima Muhammad Ali, participated in an innovative project aimed at discovering a nutritional treatment to combat Covid-19, with her colleagues Sarah Mahmoud Abu Al-Joud, Fatima Al-Khayat and Nada Nasser, and this treatment depends mainly on compounds from natural plants.
The study, which is supervised by Dr. Sameh Soliman, Associate Professor at the College of Pharmacy, and Dr. Rania Hamdi, a post-doctoral researcher, through the use of artificial intelligence and laboratory analysis, revealed the inhibitory effect of a substance extracted from natural plants, a flavonoid, against SARS-CoV-2 by Binding to essential viral targets required for virus entry and replication.
Flavonoids also showed excellent immune-modulating and anti-inflammatory activity including inhibiting various inflammatory cytokines, which cause many cases of death. Moreover, flavonoids show a high level of safety and almost no side effects.
Another group of students from the College of Pharmacy at the University of Sharjah participated in a project for the early detection and prevention of diabetes.
The project comes as a result of the efforts of Dr. Hamza Al-Zubaidi, Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Practice and Therapeutics, at the College of Pharmacy at the University of Sharjah, Dr. Katrina Samorina, assistant researcher Ward Al-Sidawi, students: Zaha Dhafer, Noura Abbas, and Shada Radi from the College of Pharmacy, and the efforts were crowned with innovation. A health programme that works on early detection of diabetes and helps reduce the risk of developing the disease and its complications and prevention, by providing a systematic lifestyle designed to meet the needs of patients, especially since many people do not notice high levels of sugar in them, and it is also distinctive in the project, that it fits with the environment and society of the UAE.
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