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African Scientist in
the Diaspora
 
Dr. Mohamed Hassan Alin
MD DTMH PhD
Dr.Mohamed Hassan Alin,was born in
Somaliland and did his medical degree
at the Faculty of Medicine Natio nal University, Mogadish, Somalia.
He then moved to Sweden and did his PhD
in Clinical Phar macology in a jo int project on Artemisinin
metabolism and pharmacokinetics involving the Dept of
Ph armacokinetics and Pha rmacotheraperutics,Uppsala University,
Uppsala, Sweden and Dept of Infec tious Diseases,
Huddinge Univer sity Hospital,
Karolinksa Institute, Stovckholm, Sweden.
Dr. Alin spent over
10 years as a
researcher in Uppsala University / Karolinska
Institute in clinical pharmaco logy with clinical field work
(efficacy, safety and
pharmacokinetics of antimalrials and speci ally artemisinin
c ompounds) in collaboration with Dar Es Salaam
University Hospital ,Tanzania. He
the refore has solid experie nce of field work on clinical trials in
the Tropics.
He has
published over 25 papers in peer
reviewed journals and has made many presentations at
internation al conferences. He is also a
member of the Swedish Academy of
Pharmaceutical Sciences.
In 1997
he joined AstraZeneca
Pharmaceutical Company in Sweden as a
Scientific Adviser in clinical
pharma cokinetic/pharmacodynamics and drug metabolism in the
Department of Clinical Pharma col ogy.He is curre ntly a
Senior Scientific Adviser in the same
department.
With over 8 year of clinical
pharmacology experience from AstraZeneca
pharmaceutical company, Dr. Alin h as
developed a broad scope of expertise in
the following areas:
(a)
the preclinical and clinical drug development process
(b)
design and execution of clinical trials
(c)
pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamic modeling and
(d)
interaction with drug regulatory authorities and ethics committees towards the
approval of new drug ap plications (NDA).
Besides his proven leadership
skills, Dr. Alin has a great ability to
interact and collaborate with people of dif ferent scientific
backgrounds and cultural diversity.
As testimony of his international
citizenship, he speaks five languages !!
- English
- Swedish
- Italian
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Arabic
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Somali
Dr. Mohamed Hassan Alin
| MD |DTMH
|PhD|
Senior Clinical Pharmacology Scientist
Section of Clinical Pharmacology,
Department of Medical science
AstraZeneca Clinical Research &
Development, Mölndal
S- 431 83 Mölndal, Sweden
Source: AIBST
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