Shawqi Alawdi is an Associate professor of pharmacology and therapeutics at the Faculty of Medicine at Thamar University, Yemen. He also works as an associate professor at the Syrian Private University (SPU), Damsacus, Syria. He received PhD in pharmacology and toxicology from Cairo University, Egypt. His research interests include drug addiction, drug repurposing, neuroscience, nanotechnology, and pharmacoepidemiology.