Ahmed Zidan has over 16 years of experience in the industry, Academia and FDA as a formulation and manufacturing scientist across a broad range of roles in development, process, and manufacturing of complex dosage forms. Ahmed is currently a senior staff fellow at the Office of Testing and Research of Center of Drug Evaluation and Research of FDA. Ahmed is leading the formulation and manufacturing translational research on complex dosage forms such as transdermal and oral drug products at Office of Testing and Research of CDER. He has made also significant contribution in identifying the CQAs of drug products manufactured by emergent technologies such as 3D printing and continuous manufacturing. In addition to leading various research groups at FDA, Ahmed has led multiple cross-agency initiatives. Ahmed published over 80 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters in these fields
Prior to joining FDA in 2015, Ahmed was an Associate Professor of pharmaceutics and Industrial Pharmacy at Zagazig University and King Abdulaziz University. Ahmed holds MS and PhD. degrees in Pharmaceutical Sciences (Pharmaceutics) from Zagazig University, Egypt in collaboration with Howard University, Washington DC.