Dr. Bilal Ali Al-Jaidi
Personal information:
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Date of birth: 16th January 1977.
Marital status: Married.
Nationality: Jordanian.
Address: Faculty of Pharmacy
Philadelphia University
Amman, 19392
Jordan,
Tel: +962 6 4799000/ Ext. 2328
Mobile: +962772338398.
Educational information:
 PhD in Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Design, November 2010,
University of Strathclyde, UK.
 Thesis title: Design and Development of New Anti-Trypanosomal
Agents.
 Supervisors: Prof. Simon P. Mackay and Dr. Geoffrey Coxon.
 Project: In this research we have used computer aided drug design and
molecular modeling to design novel anti-trypanosomal agents to combat
the human African trypanosomiasis. Ligand based drug design was used
in finding the suitable chemical scaffold for the compounds being
synthesized. These compounds were tested on the whole parasite in vitro
and most of them have shown promising sub-micromolar activites. The
compounds having imidazole, benzimidazole, benzothiazole, indole and
thiazole scaffolds.
 Master Degree in Pharmacy, Medicinal chemistry and Pharmacognosy,
(GPA, 87.6), 2005, Faculty of Pharmacy, Jordan University of Science and
Technology, Jordan.
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Title: Design, Synthesis and Antimicrobial Evaluation of 3aminobenzenesulfonamide derivatives.
Supervisors: Dr. Amjad Qandil and Prof. Mohammad Hassan
Project: This work resulted in the synthesis of derivatives that had
shown a promising activity against Candida albicans with minimum
inhibitory activity reached to 16g with limited activity against bacteria,
so they had a selective activity against fungi. Also during that work I did
the microbiological testing by myself, which is the macrodilution
susceptibility testing against Candida, Pseudomonas¸ E.coli, and
Bacillus following the NCCLS standards for that procedure.
 Bachelor degree in Pharmacy, (GPA, 81.5), 2000
Faculty of Pharmacy
Jordan University of science and technology
P.O. Box 3030
Irbid 22110
JORDAN
 Secondary education (GPA, 96.1), 1995.
Jerash secondary school
Jerash
JORDAN
Work Experiences:
 From 28th November till now: Assistant Professor in the faculty of Pharmacy,
Philadelphia University:
 Lecturing in Medicinal Chemistry topics (Medicinal Chemistry-1, 2 and
3 in addition to drug design topics).
 Supervising in the Medicinal Chemistry practical courses.
 Five semesters as part time lecturer (10/2005-6/2007) in Medicinal Chemistry
and Pharmacognosy department, faculty of Pharmacy, JUST. (Pharmaceutical
Analytical Chemistry lab, Pharm 227, and Pharmaceutical Organic Chemistry
lab, Pharm 224). My responsibility was to teach the theoretical and the
practical part of various laboratory experiments in organic and analytical
chemistry techniques. Many techniques had been taught in those courses such
as, distillation, extraction and recrystallization in addition to the use of some
instrumental equipment, such as UV, NMR, IR and melting point apparatus.
 During the Master degree Study, I was working as teaching assistant for two
years in Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy department, Faculty of
Pharmacy, JUST. During that I supervised and demonstrated in Pharmaceutical
Organic Chemistry lab, and Pharmaceutical Analytical Chemistry lab.
Other Experiences:
 I have a good knowledge in the use of most of the spectrometric analysis
instruments including NMR, IR and UV. I worked in these devices during my
master degree study, through my teaching experience and during my current
PhD study.
 I have a good experience in how to biologically test certain compounds to find
their Antimicrobial activities including the antibacterial and the antifungal
activities, this by running the following methods:
 Microdilution and macrodilution susceptibility testing.
 Antibacterial Disc diffusion method.
 Antibacterial Hole diffusion method.
IT Skills:
 I have extensive knowledge in all Microsoft office programs.
 I am also proficient in a range of chemistry software including ChemDraw and
ChemSkitch, Accelrys® visualizer, and Pymol®
Interests:
 I frequently play football with friends.
 I play badminton from time to time.
 I listen to soft music and watch TV, especially football games.
Conferences and symposiums
 EaStCHEM Organic Chemistry meets Chemical Biology Symposium, School
of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, UK, 29th April 2009.
 7th Glasgow International Symposium on Synthetic Chemistry, Department of
Applied Chemistry, University of Glasgow, UK, 3rd September 2009. The title
of the poster presented was: Towards Selective and Safe Anti-tuberculosis
Agents.
 Cancer Research UK Medicinal Chemistry Training Program, Newcastle
University, UK, 4th November 2009.
 Biological and Medicinal Chemistry 3rd Postgraduate Symposium. University
of Cambridge, UK, 11th December 2009. The Title of the oral presentation
given was: Towards Selective Anti-tuberculosis Agents.
 RSC Perkin Meeting for Scottish Universities, University of Dundee, UK, 16th
December 2009.
Publications:
 Qosay Al-Balas, Nahoum G. Anthony, Bilal Al-Jaidi, Amani Alnimr, Grainne
Abbott, Alistair K. Brown, Rebecca C. Taylor, Gurdyal S. Besra, Timothy D.
McHugh, Stephen H. Gillespie, Blair F. Johnston, Simon P. Mackay, Geoffrey
D. Coxon ; Identification of 2-Aminothiazole-4-Carboxylate Derivatives
Active against Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv and the β-Ketoacyl-ACP
Synthase mtFabH, PloS One Journal, Volume 4, Issue 5, 2009.
 Amjad M. Qandil, Mohammad A. Hassan, and Bilal A. Al-Jeaidi. Design and
Synthesis of a Series of 3-aminobenzenesulfonamide Derivatives and their
Screening for Antimicrobial and Cytotoxicity Activity. Jordan Journal of
Pharmaceutical Sciences, Volume 1, Issue 1, 2008, 41-54.