research and development in petrochemicals

studying of the cracking proccess

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Synthetic Organic chemistry, glycochemistry, drug design, teaching

October 2005- September 2007: Postdoctoral Fellow, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPF) Lausanne, Switzerland.
“Synthesis of a C-linked Disaccharide Analogues of the Thomsen- Friedenreich (TF) Epitope á-O-Conjugated to L-Serine and L-Threonine. Formation of Clusters and their Conjugation to KLH as Potential Anticancer Vaccine”

October 2001-October 2005: Research Fellow, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPF) Lausanne, Switzerland.
“Synthesis of a C-linked Disaccharide Analogue of the Thomsen- Friedenreich (TF)-Epitope á-O-Conjugated to L-Serine and Formation of a Cluster as Potential Anticancer Vaccine”

October 2000 -October 2001: Research Fellow, Institute of technology, Paris, France, and University of Lausanne, Switzerland
“Anti-Cancer Vaccine Based in Carbohydrate”

EDUCATION: Competence in organic chemistry, medicinal chemistry and glycochemistry

2001-2005: Ph.D. in Synthetic Organic Chemistry and Glycochemistry, ISIC-SB-Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPF) Lausanne, Switzerland.
Ph D project in title:
“Synthesis of a C-linked Disaccharide Analogue of the Thomsen- Friedenreich (TF)-Epitope á-O-Conjugated to L-Serine and Formation of a Cluster as Potential Anticancer Vaccine”

2000-2001: DEA (M.Sc. in Molecular Chemistry), Institute of Technology, Paris, France and University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
DEA project in title:
“Anti-Cancer Vaccine Based in Carbohydrate”.

1995-1999: B.Sc. (Honors) in Chemistry, Chemical Technology as minor subject, University of Al-Quds, Palestine.
Baclear project in title:
“Post column derivetaisation analysis for volatile molecules by HPLC”

HONORS: First class with distinction

Ph D with Distinction (Excellent): Swiss federal institute of technology/Lausanne

DEA: Ecole poly technique palesiueue/ Paris

B.Sc. with Distinction (89.5 %): Alquds University/ Jerusalem
Stood First Position in the Faculty of Science
Stood First Position in the Chemistry Department

PUBLICATIONS:

Awad, L.; Vogel, P. The Use of Levoglucosenone and Isolevoglucosenone as Templates for the Construction of C-linked Disaccharides, Carbohydrate research, 2006, 341. 1235-1252.

Awad, L.; Riedner, J.; Vogel, P.; C-Linked Disaccharide Analog of the Thomsen- Friedenreich (T)-Epitope -O-Conjugated to L-Serine. Chem. Eur. J. 2005,11, 3565-3573.

Huang, X.; Craita, C.; Awad, L.; Vogel, P. Silyl methallysulfinates-as efficient and powerful agents for the silylation of alcohols, phenols and carboxylic acids. Chem. Commun. 2005, 1297-1299. accepted as a hot paper.

Demange, R.; Awad, L.; Vogel, P. Synthesis of C-linked analogues of -D-galactopyranosyl-(13)-D-galactopyranosides and of -D-galactopyranosyl-(1→3)-D-galactal. Tetrahedron: Asymmetry 2004, 15, 22, 3573-3585.


OTHER PUBLICATIONS:


Awad, L.; Vogel, P. in collaboration with the group of prof. Danishefsky, S. J. Synthesis of a C-linked Disaccharide Analogue of the Thomsen Friedenreich (TF)-Epitope á-O-Conjugated to L-Serine and Formation of a Cluster as Potential Anticancer Vaccine (manuscript in preparation).

Awad, L.; Vogel, P. in collaboration with the group of prof. Jimenez-Barbero, J. (conformational studying of a C-linked Disaccharide Analogue of the Thomsen Friedenreich (TF)-Epitope á-O-Conjugated to L-Serine (manuscript in preparation).