Intern
Hikma Pharmaceutical
Total years of experience :0 years, 3 Months
A) Operations Department
Observed a detailed step-‐by-‐step process of how raw materials are produced into the desired market product.
Manufacturing -‐ Warehouse, Production, Packaging and Quality Assurance
Production: Observed how raw material is granulated, dried and milled in order to reach the final blend. Once final
blend is achieved, observed the stages of sugar-‐coating, film-‐coating and enteric-‐coating of a tablet or a capsule.
Packaging: At Hikma Pharmaceuticals, I observed the process of packaging along with the machines that were used depending on product type. Observed three types of packaging:
§ Primary Packaging: Direct contact with contents often used for small units of production.
§ Secondary Packaging: Enclosing the primary package.
§ Tertiary Packaging: Found in the warehouse, where materials are packed in bulk for the use of storage,
transport and shipping.
Quality Assurance: Ensuring that Hikma products are maintained with a desired level of quality. I participated in the errands illustrated below.
§ Evaluate implemented process by testing the final results against objectives
§ Provide necessary improvement if the results need to be modified
§ Making sure raw materials are matching MO
§ Line clearance for every room according to cGMP regulations
§ MO information is intact, accurate along with batch number, manufacturing dates and labeling of raw materials
§ Tablet testing TTS to check for weight, hardness and thickness
§ Friability tests-‐ checking results
§ Packaging-‐ ensuring blisters/jars are intact
§ Accepting batches, ensuring documentation according to cGMP
§ Receiving QC approvals
§ QA hold/Variation notice

Quality Control: The testing of raw material and equipment to ensure drug product meets the highest standards in accordance to GMOs. Participated in the following tasks:
§ Drug stability, drug efficacy and drug safety
§ In - process checking
§ Microbiological testing
§ Finished product testing
v Planning, Purchasing and Shipping: Focusing on the manner in which raw material is purchased from suppliers dealing with Hikma Pharmaceuticals.
§ Planning the purchase of the highest quality of raw material from promising suppliers § Ensure purchased products meet the agreed specifications
§ Regulating the route in which merchandise are shipped through
B) Business Development
Overviewing and attending to contracts between corporate multinational companies and Hikma Pharmaceuticals.
§ Assessing and monitoring the quality and cost-‐effectiveness of contracts
v Planning and organizing internal system software to ensure supplier, contract and product data are
stored.
The Seclusion and Specification of Stem Cells from Menstrual Blood  Menstrual blood collected from healthy female donors and by using a density gradient centrifugation mononuclear cells were positively isolated. Cells cultured and harvested in complete media to ensure their progression in growth. Cells cultured for a total of 14 days, which soon after were immune-‐stained in order to distinguish the occurrence of specific markers and differentiation conventions were initiated. The results obtained indicate that firstly, a stem cell population was present in the menstrual blood samples. Secondly, the isolated stem cells had the ability to differentiate into several distinctive lineages such as hepatic, respiratory endothelial, pancreatic, osteogenic, myoctic, cardiomycin and neurocytic.