Ruwaidix Rx23 logoMahmoud K. Al-Ruweidi

Research funding / project records

Four research grants.
From micelles to pulmonary injury.

Four QNRF Undergraduate Research Experience Program projects took me from block-copolymer micelles to pulmonary cell injury, plasma-modified scaffolds and heterocyclic chemistry. I joined these teams as an undergraduate researcher at Qatar University. The projects taught me to move between experimental questions and to recognize when a planned synthesis, measurement or material required a different approach. Their original proposals and records remain available below.

QNRF UREP · Project participation as undergraduate/student researcher · No principal-investigator or award-amount claims

Selected grant-supported research

Project-by-project records

UREP19-110-1-014 · Polymer physical chemistry and colloidal transport

Polymeric micelles for remediation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

Self-assembled block-copolymer micelles for solubilizing and recovering hydrophobic environmental pollutants.

My contribution: Drafted project-proposal material and calculated Flory–Huggins interaction parameters (χ) to evaluate theoretical PAH–diblock-copolymer compatibility and support candidate-polymer selection.

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UREP21-050-3-010 · Cell biomechanics and experimental respiratory injury

The effects of cell mechanical property alterations on the survival of lung epithelial cells under shear stress

Experimental pulmonary bioengineering: how the mechanical properties of epithelial cells affect injury under fluid-induced stress.

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UREP22-076-1-011 · Biomaterials engineering and tissue–material interfaces

Development of medical scaffolds with enhanced infection resistance using electrospinning/plasma technology

Fabrication and surface modification of PLA scaffolds for tissue engineering and antimicrobial properties.

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Project titles and identifiers follow the archived QNRF UREP research plans. My participation was as an undergraduate student researcher within supervised, collaborative project teams. The UREP23 record also includes a final report, and related peer-reviewed outputs are cited where available.

Research development

From early grants to contemporary bioengineering.

The early projects created connections that remain visible in my subsequent research: polymeric systems and formulation, mechanics of injured epithelia, engineered biomaterials and molecular structure–function relationships. The same questions inform later work in pulmonary therapeutics and model-driven drug delivery.

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