Ali Qassem studied Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Chemistry at Tishreen University in Syria. He was awarded the excellence scholarship from the University of Milan, Italy to study a master’s degree in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology. During his master’s thesis, he worked on developing an analytical method to measure the enzyme 3-HAO activity ex-vivo and in vitro. Ali was selected for the European doctoral training program “NanoReMedi’’ under the supervision of Pr. Gilles Subra, Pr. Alexander Bittner, and Dr. Cecile Echalier. His Ph.D. thesis focuses on synthesizing nanomaterials from hybrid self-assembling peptides and other biomolecules to be used in treatments for regenerative medicine.