btained successively the MSc (1996) and PhD (1999) degree in Pharmacology and Toxicology at the Cairo University, Egypt. He was a visiting scholar in 2002 at the Department of Veterinary Medicine of the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. In 2003 and 2005 he conducted a postdoc fellowship, respectively, at the Pharamcogenetics Research Institute of the Central South University in Hunan, ChangSha, China and the Pharamcogenetics Research Center of the Inje University in Jin-Gu, Busan, Republic of Korea. Abd El-Aty was a visiting professor from 2005 to 2007 at the Natural Products Chemistry Laboratory at Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Republic of Korea, and Foreign Assistant Professor at the Department of Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology at the College of Veterinary Medicine, Konkuk University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.