{"id":11023,"date":"2026-10-24T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bcms.edu.iq\/?p=11023"},"modified":"2026-10-27T05:00:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T05:00:36","slug":"our-graduates-success-story-30-ali-athab-al-kinani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcms.edu.iq\/en\/department-of-pharmacy\/our-graduates-success-story-30-ali-athab-al-kinani\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Graduates\u2026 A Success Story (30): Ali Athab Al-Kinani"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.single .cz_single_fi img.wp-post-image{height:auto!important;max-height:520px!important;object-fit:contain!important;background:#fff}body.single-post .page_cover .page_title.page_title{font-size:34px!important;line-height:1.5!important}@media (min-width:768px){body.single-post .page_cover .page_title.page_title{padding-top:150px!important;padding-bottom:40px!important}}@media (max-width:767px){body.single-post .page_cover .page_title.page_title{font-size:22px!important}}<\/style>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" class=\"cz_ignore_number\" style=\"max-width:860px;margin:0 auto;color:#233865;font-size:17px;text-align:left;line-height:1.8\">\n<p><strong>Our Graduates\u2026 A Success Story | Episode 30<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Ali Athab Al-Kinani<\/strong> \u2014 2nd cohort \u00b7 2005\u20132006<br \/>Associate Professor in Clinical Pharmaceutics and Pharmacy Department Postgraduate Course Leader \u2014 Kingston University London, United Kingdom<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThis is where I began to dream, and where I learned how to make my dreams come true.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Profile<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Department:<\/strong> Pharmacy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cohort:<\/strong> 2nd (2005\u20132006)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Current position:<\/strong> Associate Professor in Clinical Pharmaceutics \u2013 Pharmacy Department Postgraduate Course Leader, Kingston University London<\/li>\n<li><strong>City:<\/strong> London \u2013 United Kingdom<\/li>\n<li><strong>First job after graduation:<\/strong> within 3 to 6 months<\/li>\n<li><strong>Highest degree:<\/strong> PhD in Pharmaceutics and Therapeutics \u2014 Kingston University, UK<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>His journey in one sentence<\/h3>\n<p>Your future is not built by the opportunities you find, but by the opportunities you create.<\/p>\n<h3>His story after graduation<\/h3>\n<p>When I graduated from pharmacy school, I carried big dreams and more questions than answers. I did not know where the journey would lead me, but I believed that learning does not end with earning a degree. The biggest challenge was to keep growing and keep pace with opportunities and changes at every new stage of my professional and academic life.<\/p>\n<p>I learned that success is not achieved with a single step or a single accomplishment; it is built with patience, perseverance and readiness for continuous learning. Today, when I look back, I feel grateful that this journey began here, at my alma mater, which gave me not only knowledge but also the confidence and the foundation on which I built my future. I still believe that the best thing a person can offer is to keep learning and to help others grow with them.<\/p>\n<h3>Education<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>B.Sc. Pharmacy \u2014 Baghdad College of Medical Sciences, 2nd cohort (2006)<\/li>\n<li>M.Sc. in Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Analysis (distinction) \u2014 top of his cohort<\/li>\n<li>PhD in Pharmaceutics and Therapeutics \u2014 Kingston University, UK<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Career path<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Associate Professor in Clinical Pharmaceutics \u2014 Pharmacy Department, Kingston University London, UK<\/li>\n<li>Pharmacy Department Postgraduate Course Leader \u2014 Kingston University<\/li>\n<li>Founded and leads research activities in clinical pharmaceutics and drug delivery, and has contributed to supervising, preparing and developing a generation of postgraduate students and researchers in pharmacy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Certificates and courses<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cTeaching through Research\u201d leadership programme \u2014 UNESCO Chair in Science, Centre for Research and Interdisciplinarity, Paris<\/li>\n<li>Member of the Royal College of Pharmacy, UK<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Awards, conferences and volunteering<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Analysis and Pharmaceutical Quality (APQ) International Research Award \u2014 American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS), Orlando, Florida<\/li>\n<li>Global Achiever Award \u2014 KU Talent, Kingston University London<\/li>\n<li>Formulation Design and Development (FDD) Section Award \u2014 AAPS<\/li>\n<li>Award from the Controlled Release Society, one of the world\u2019s leading specialized scientific societies (2014)<\/li>\n<li>Best Scientific Poster Award, 2nd Conference of the Centre for the Study of Health and Age-related Conditions (IhSHA) \u2014 Kingston University<\/li>\n<li>First Prize for Best Presentation, 1st IhSHA Conference \u2014 Kingston University<\/li>\n<li>GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) First Prize for Best Poster \u2014 School of Pharmacy and Chemistry, Kingston University<\/li>\n<li>Editorial Board Member, <em>Pharmaceutical Development and Technology<\/em> (Taylor &amp; Francis)<\/li>\n<li>Topics Advisory Board Member, <em>Pharmaceutics<\/em> (MDPI)<\/li>\n<li>Advisory Board Member, Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments (FRAME)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Research profile<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=ER-3pKEAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">His Google Scholar profile<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Dr. Ali Athab Al-Kinani\u2019s advice to today\u2019s students<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cDon\u2019t worry too much about the future. Work hard, learn from every opportunity that comes your way, and never stop dreaming \u2014 some of the most beautiful opportunities come from places we never expected.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Are you a graduate of our College \u2014 Pharmacy or Nursing? Share your story through the <a href=\"https:\/\/bcms.edu.iq\/en\/alumni\/share-your-story\/\">success stories form<\/a>. All episodes are on the <a href=\"https:\/\/bcms.edu.iq\/alumni\/graduate-stories\/\">series page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Graduates\u2026 A Success Story | Episode 30 Dr. Ali Athab Al-Kinani &#8230; <a class=\"cz_readmore cz_readmore_no_icon\" href=\"https:\/\/bcms.edu.iq\/en\/department-of-pharmacy\/our-graduates-success-story-30-ali-athab-al-kinani\/\"><span>\u0627\u0642\u0631\u0623 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0632\u064a\u062f<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,84,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni-affairs-unit","category-department-of-pharmacy","category-93"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcms.edu.iq\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcms.edu.iq\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcms.edu.iq\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcms.edu.iq\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcms.edu.iq\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bcms.edu.iq\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11024,"href":"https:\/\/bcms.edu.iq\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11023\/revisions\/11024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcms.edu.iq\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcms.edu.iq\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcms.edu.iq\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcms.edu.iq\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}