Dr Sundus Tewfik

Dr Sundus Tewfik is the founder of Bloomsnano Ltd., (founded on 9th October 2019). Sundus is the Director and the company’s Chief Sustainability Officer.

Dr Tewfik studied BSc Biology at University of Firat in Elazig, Turkey, Dr Tewfik immigrated to London, UK in October 1992. During her study of the MSc in Applied Microbiology at University of Westminster, she joined St Marys Hospital, London in August 1994 as an intern at the Cytology and Cytogenetics Departments. In October 1995 she took a post in Cytology Department, to train as a Biomedical Scientist, becoming State Registered Biomedical Scientist in March 1998. In October 1998, Dr Tewfik returned to academia as PhD researcher at University of Westminster working on bioactive compounds extracted from Anacyclus pyrethrum. She served as a Research Assistant supporting the operations of the greenhouse, care for a variety of plants (horticulture) and the cell culture laboratory, care for variety of marine phytoplanktons.

In January 2000, she was appointed as Research Fellow to the newly formed research group for Quality Control and Assurance of Herbal Products. The research group included School of Bioscience and School of Integrated Health (University of Westminster) and Neal’s Yard Remedies, UK. Sundus was instrumental in designing and implementing the project from cultivation of plants at Highgrove, Duchy Home Farm, to preparing herbal remedies at The Centre for Community Care and Primary Health Clinic, to laboratory profiling and testing of plant extracts at Biosciences Laboratories. Built on these years of experiences, Sundus was appointed as industrial consultancies for various enterprises:

2007- 2010 at Neal’s Yard Remedies working on UV Protective Plant extracts

April - July 2012 at University of Westminster, analysing macro and micronutrients profiles of natural products as ingredients to formulate tailored functional recipe (TFR) model meals

May – Aug 2008 at Qatar General Electricity and Water Corp, Qatar, Determination of Volatile Organic Compounds in sampled Drinking Water.

July – Aug 2015 at Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Saudi Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) working on Risk Assessment and Management of Radioactive Compounds in sampled Drinking Water.

July – Aug 2015 at Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Saudi Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) working on Risk Assessment and Management of Radioactive Compounds in sampled Drinking Water.

2000-2018 Sundus has taught at various higher/further education institutions; e.g. University of Westminster, City of Westminster College, London Metropolitan University. She changed the course of teaching in sciences by encouraging her students to conduct experiments which have industrial applications, to become active participants in their own learning and share their ‘know-how’ with their peers and ‘show-how’ within their communities.

In 2004 Sundus founded her first company ‘Sundus Connect UK’ and Charitable Foundation ‘Sundus Hope UK’. Sundus has been an innovator as well as entrepreneur for over 20 years, developing new ways to integrate ancient remedies into standard pharmacological therapies for the management of chronic diseases. The research techniques she employ span over various laboratory scrutiny starts from authentication of botanicals; biochemical evaluation, antimicrobial testing, isolation/identification of “biologically active” components (in-vitro/in-vivo tissue systems), quality control, product formulations and randomised clinical studies. 

Sundus is married and honorary mum of 20 (and counting) very special young people.

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