Graduate Assistant
University of Florida
Mai Mehanna received her bachelor’s degree in pharmaceutical sciences in 2010 from Misr International University, Egypt. She worked as a clinical research associate at the Children’s Cancer Hospital from 2012 to 2015. Thereafter, she received a Fulbright scholarship to pursue her master’s degree in Pharmacotherapy and Translational Research which she earned in May 2017 from the University of Florida. There, she studied the field of pharmacogenomics and personalized medicine and her research work was focused on the role of plasma renin activity biomarker in personalizing the antihypertensive drug therapy. In May 2018, she received a graduate assistantship from the University of Florida to pursue her PhD in pharmacogenomics and precision medicine. Currently, she is studying the metabolomic and genomic underpinnings of the renin angiotensin-aldosterone system and blood pressure responses to antihypertensive drugs in European and African American hypertensive patients.
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