Yasmeen Tarek AlNajjar

Certified life coachFreelance / Project

• Job Details:I help people fulfill their goals, plan, make decisions, and think clearly and differently in matters they are stuck at. I help my clients to raise their self-awareness, boost their self-esteem and confidence, find their true selves ans act upon it.

Assistant LecturerFull Time

• Job Details:• Teach a total of 4 undergraduate Pharmaceutical Chemistry III & IV courses / labs: 2 courses (theoretical and practical) per each semester • Grade assigned projects, quizzes, midterms, final exams • Assist faculty with administrative tasks • Enhance the interactive learning techniques in class • Prepare some of the course material including laboratory experiments and tutorial slides • Supervise students in final projects and evaluate project presentations

ResearcherFull Time

• Job Details:• Conducted several amide and sulfonamide coupling reactions using different synthetic schemes, performed ether dealkylation reactions using BBr3, purified compounds using column chromatography, monitored the progress of all the reactions carried out by thin-layer chromatography, elucidated the structures of all compounds using LC-MS, 1H NMR spectroscopy, 13C NMR spectroscopy • Designed potent selective Dyrk1A inhibitors with two compounds exhibiting a dual inhibitory activity against α-synuclein aggregation and induced cytotoxicity in the dopaminergic SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells