About me
Ahmed Khottary Oraby, B.Sc. (Pharm), M.Sc., Ph.D.
Greetings! I'm Ahmed Oraby, a pharmacist and a synthetic medicinal chemist working at the interface of chemical biology, computational drug design, and virology. My path has taken me from Giza, Egypt to labs across Canada, building inventive pathways to tackle current and emerging viral infections.
2014
Visiting research scholar, Georghiou Lab, Memorial University of Newfoundland — antimicrobial small-molecule design
2016
MSc, Pharmaceutical Organic Chemistry, Beni Suef University; joined the Russell Lab designing novel HCV inhibitors
2016–2022
PhD, Chemistry, University of Alberta — West Group
Present
Women and Children’s Health Research Institute (WCHRI) Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemical & Structural Virology — Marchant Lab, Dept. of Medical Microbiology & Immunology
Design → synthesize → test
Bench
synthesis
Molecule
medchem
Model
CADD / MD
Target
Research Focus
Medicinal & Organic Chemistry
Design · Synthesis · SAR
Molecular Virology
Viral Replication · Antivirals
Computational Drug Discovery
Docking · MD · AI
Structural Biology
Cryo-EM · Protein–Ligand Interactions
