
Dr. Walaa Bedewy
I work as a postdoc in Prof. Marc Adler's group since July 2021. My PhD work was about design and synthesis of bicyclic peptide libraries which was achieved in Ohio State University, USA. Afterwards, I defended my thesis in my home university, Helwan University, Egypt. During my PhD, I gained cell culture skills which enabled me to perform the required cell-based assays to test different peptides for cellular delivery or anticancer activity. Additionally, I gained experience in the biochemistry field which enables me to express, purify, and label the required proteins to perform different binding assays or to test the inhibition of protein-protein interaction. All that qualified me to wrap up my thesis projects starting from the design and synthesis of peptidomimetics and ending up with biological evaluation and optimization of the activity.