PhD students
Safwa Moheb El Haddad received her master’s degree in Pharmacy in October 2024, doing his thesis internship at the Pharmacognosy Laboratory of the Department of Pharmacological and Biomolecular Sciences “Rodolfo Paoletti.” The thesis, titled “From the ethnopharmacology of Niger to the study of the anti-inflammatory properties of Prosopis africana (Guill. & Perr.) Taub. in gastric cells,” investigated the potential of natural extracts and the ethnopharmacological aspect of some plants traditionally used in Niger in the treatment of gastric inflammation. The thesis was the winner of the Italo Taddei Award as part of the XXXIII National Congress of Phytotherapy.
After graduating, she continued her work in the Laboratory of Pharmacognosy as a volunteer, subsequently obtaining a scholarship for promising graduates. Her research focuses on the anti-inflammatory activity of natural extracts through in vitro experiments on gastric cells, involving pathogenic bacteria such as Helicobacter pylori; she was co-supervisor of an experimental thesis. She is currently attending the Doctoral School in Pharmacological and Biomolecular Sciences, Experimental and Clinical at the Laboratory of Pharmacognosy of the Department of Pharmacological and Biomolecular Sciences ‘Rodolfo Paoletti’ of the University of Milan.
It also participates in scientific dissemination activities aimed at the public and the local area.