During its meeting number (603) held on 16/2/2014 the Faculty of Pharmacy council has  agreed to grant Pharmacist Mohamed Khalifa Abdel Gaber - Assistant Lecturer,  Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Assiut University – a study leave with salary for one year as of April 2014, where he obtained a grant from the Japanese government (MEXT scholarship (monbukagakusho) for 2014) to study for a Ph.D. Degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences (Pharmaceutical Medicinal Chemistry) for a period of three years at the expense of the Government of Japan.