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Asian Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences | ISSN: 2249-622X | Volume 8
October 22-23, 2018 | Frankfurt, Germany
&
Joint Event
Chemistry and Organic Chemistry
8
th
World Congress on
Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy
International Conference on
Mayyada El-Sayed
American University of Cairo, Egypt
Sorption and chromatography processes in environmental and
biochemical applications
S
orption and chromatography processes have been widely
usedinaplethoraofapplicationscoveringvariousaspectsof
our daily life. We highlight some of these applications through
presenting some relevant work that has been undertaken by
our group in three major areas, namely water treatment,
bioseparation and biomedical engineering. For water
treatment purposes, the removal of heavy metals, hardness
ions and dyes using low-cost adsorbents, biosorbents and
chelating agents is presented. Furthermore, the application
of sorption and chromatographic processes in bioseparations
is demonstrated by means of practical examples on the
recovery of valuable proteins from whey mixtures, as well as
separation of bioactive polysaccharides from algal extracts.
Finally, the role of sorption equilibrium and kinetic studies
in evaluating the activity and efficiency of biomaterials and
biosensors is addressed. Examples are provided on assessing
the activity of biomaterials for bone regeneration via studying
sorption kinetics of Ca and P ions onto their surface, as well
as evaluating the efficiency of glucose-binding proteins as
biosensors for diabetes through investigating the binding
of glucose onto these proteins via sorption mechanisms.
Speaker Biography
Mayyada El-Sayed obtained her PhD in Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at
CambridgeUniversity,UK.SheworkedasavisitingresearchfacultymemberattheUniversity
ofMarylandBaltimoreCounty(UMBC).SheiscurrentlyanAssociateProfessorandGraduate
ProgramDirector at the Chemistry Department, American University in Cairo. She has been
awarded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship along with other professional awards. She is also
a member of a number of professional associations including ACS, AIChE and IChemE.
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mayyada@aucegypt.eduNotes:
Mayyada El-Sayed, Chemistry and Biomedicine 2018, Volume 8
DOI: 10.4066/2249-622X-C4-010