About
Professional SummaryDuring (1994-2014) Dr. Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer worked as Head of Department of Pharmacology at Saddam College of Medicine. He obtained his MBChB from College of Medicine, Baghdad University, and MD (Higher Diploma in Medicine) from College of Medicine, Al-Mustansiriya University in 2000. His research experiences includes Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology at Kufa College of Medicine, Head of Department of Pharmacology at Saddam College of Medicine, Professor of Pharmacology at College of Medicine, Pharmaceutical Consultant at Ibn-Cina Centre for drug research, Arab Company For Antibiotic Industry, Dofar Pharmaceuticals, External Lecturer at (1) College of Medicine, Anbar University, (2) College of Medicine, Diyala University, (3) College of Pharmacy, Hawler Medical University. He is also an editor/reviewer in Iraqi Medical Journal, Medical Basic Sciences Journa, Kufa Medical Journal, Oman Medical Journal, and Clinical Pharmacology (USA), International Journal of Rheumatic Diseases (Australia), Drug activity, Medical Journals. He is member of Scientific Research Board. He published (126) articles, (6) Strategy Research, (4) Edited Books (1) patents as author/co-author. He is also supervising 14 PhD and 33 MSc students thesis.
Employment
Professional Appointments
Professor Emeritus
University of Diyala
Education
Academic Background-
M.D. Al-Mustansiriya University, Baghdad, Iraq Medicine | Completed: 2006
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Ph.D. Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium Pharmacology, Toxicology and Medicine | Completed: 1984
Editorial Services
Editorial & Publishing Roles
Editorial Board Member
Serving as Editorial Board Member for Research Journal of Medicinal Plants.
Editorial Board Member
Serving as Editorial Board Member for American Journal of Drug Discovery and Development.
Editorial Board Member
Serving as Editorial Board Member for Current Research in Cardiovascular Pharmacology.
Publications (64)
Selected Scholarly Contributions
Reasons for using carnitine in managing dioxins-induced metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease: A scoping review
2026
Leukocyte Glucose Index as Significant Marker of Poor Prognosis in COVID-19 Patients with Hyperglycemia
2025
Review of: "Evaluation of Antidiabetic Potential of Gymnema Sylvestre and Metformin Combination in Streptozotocin-Induced Diabetic Rats"
2025
Perspectives of oral antidiabetics in the physical inactivity and its sequelae-Relations to the circulating myokines (Irisin and myostatin): A review
2025
The Impact of Social Media as a Tool of E-learning during the COVID-19 Lockdown on the Mental Health of Medical Students: A Gender-based Study
2025
Association Between Pharmacotherapy And Circulating Hematological Profile In Rheumatoid Arthritis
2024
Antiepileptics pharmacotherapy or antidiabetics may hold potential in treatment of epileptic patients with diabetes mellitus: A narrative review
2023
Plateletcrit is a useful marker in the quality of life assessment of patients with rheumatoid arthritis: A cross-sectional study from Erbil, Iraq.
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2023
Cardiometabolic risk factors and electrocardiogram results in type 2 diabetes patients with or without non-infected foot ulcers: A comparative study.
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2023
The erythrocyte sedimentation rate is a simple, sensitive and predictive hematological index for non-septic diabetic foot syndrome: A cross-sectional study.
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2022
The Pharmacological Effects of Kappa Carrageenan on Different Human Cell Lines and Genomic DNA: An in vitro study
2021
Blood Cells Indices are Determinants of the COVID-19 Outcome: A Cross-Sectional Study from Kurdistan Region-Iraq
2021
Assessment of sudomotor function in hypertensive with/without type-2 diabetes patients using sudoscan: an electrophysiological study.
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2021
Concomitant using of topical carrageenan-kappa and oral vitamin D against 7, 12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene induced-oral cancer in rats: A synergism or an antagonism effects
2020
A preliminary report about the detection of ventricular repolarisation in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2020
Prevalence of antidepressant-induced sexual dysfunction among psychiatric outpatients attending a tertiary care hospital.
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2020
Pentoxifylline improves the quality of life in type-2 diabetes foot syndrome.
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2019
Utility of tetrahydrobiopterin pathway in the assessment of diabetic foot ulcer: significant and complex interrelations.
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2019
Pulse pressure index as a discriminator of predicting the cardiovascular events in hypertensive patients treated with drugs acting on angiotensinogen-angiotensin pathway.
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2019
Effects of vitamin D3 supplementation on the hematological indices in women presented with iron deficiency anemia: An open-labeled clinical trial.
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2019
Serum levels of serotonin as a biomarker of newly diagnosed fibromyalgia in women: its relation to the platelet indices.
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2018
Assessment of serum neopterin as an inflammatory and cardiovascular marker in type 1 and 2 diabetes complicated by diabetic foot syndrome: a comparative study.
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2018
Correlation of hematological indices and ratios derived from them with fiqr scores in fibromyalgia.
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2018
Subclinical ventricular repolarization abnormality in uncontrolled compared with controlled treated hypertension.
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2017
Epileptic patients are at risk of cardiac arrhythmias: A novel approach using QT-nomogram, tachogram, and cardiac restitution plots.
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2017
Two-week treatment with diuretics as add on therapy is enough to control the blood pressure in patients presented with uncontrolled-resistant hypertension.
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2017
Increase serum cytokines levels in type 2 diabetes mellitus associated with arterial hypertension: A link to cardio-metabolic risk factors.
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2016
Saliva C-reactive protein as a biomarker of metabolic syndrome in diabetic patients.
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2016
Hydrogen sulfide donors or related derivatives are the future medicines of renal diseases.
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2016
Assessment of serum interleukins-17 and 1β levels in hypertensive patients treated with angiotensin converting enzyme and/or angiotensin II receptor blockers.
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2016
Concomitant measurements of serum annexin A5 levels and hematological indices as markers in recent and old myocardial infarction with low ejection fraction: A preliminary study.
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2016
Serum Annexin A5 levels doesn't serve a discriminating marker of left ventricular ejection fraction in patients with a recent acute myocardial infarction.
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2016
New topics in serum copeptin levels in hypertension: Is there an interrelation with inflammatory biomarkers?
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2016
Drug eluting stents alter the inflammatory biomarkers after one week of stent implantation in patients with ischemic heart disease: Gender based study.
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2016
Thymoquinone protects the heart against isoproterenol-induced myocardial ischemia in mice: A histopathological study.
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2016
The clinical importance of measurement of hematological indices in the breast cancer survivals: A comparison between premenopausal and postmenopausal women.
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2016
Significant alteration of nitrogen species in acute myocardial infarction does not relate to the site of infarction.
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2014
2014
Heart failure: discrepancy between nyha functional classification, serum nt-pro brain natriuretic peptide and ejection fraction
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2013
Amber stones assisted water extraction of cloves antioxidants: A novel procedure.
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2013
Assessment of nitrosative stress and lipid peroxidation activity in asymptomatic exposures to medical radiation: The bystander effect of ionizing radiation.
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2012
Assessment of nitrogen radicals and their scavenging activity in patients with end-stage renal failure.
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2012
Significant beneficial effect of AT-1 receptor blockers (sartans) in stroke.
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2012
Role of nitrosative and oxidative stress in neuropathy in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2012
Comparison of quantitative and qualitative cytokine response to the seasonal and 2009H1N1 influenza a infections.
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2012
Grape seed extract exerts abhesive effect against staphylococcus aureus: in vitro study.
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2012
Electromagnetic energy radiated from mobile phone alters electrocardiographic records of patients with ischemic heart disease.
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2012
High serum peroxynitrite level is an early effect of chronic cigarette smoking.
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2012
Mobile radiofrequency does not interfere with antiarrhythmic drugs in patients with ischemic heart disease.
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2012
Nitrostative stress status during seasonal and pdmH1N1 infection in Iraq.
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2011
Dyslipidemia as a contributory factor in etiopathogenesis of diabetic neuropathy.
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2011
Rofecoxib prevents ctdsDNA against damage induced by copper sulfate and ultraviolet B radiation in vitro study.
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2011
Serum nitric oxide and peroxynitrite levels in adult sero-positive rheumatoid arthritis treated with disease modifying antirheumatic drugs: A preliminary report.
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2010
Aqueous extract of salvia officinalis and ruta graveolens: potential source of reactive nitrogen species.
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2010
Magnetized solutions altered the absorbance of tramadol hcl: uv-spectrophotometer study.
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2010
Subtype of hypertension is evidence for preclinical atherosclerosis.
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2010
. X-rays irradiation produced dual effects on the constituents of medicinal plants extracts.
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2009
Dual effects of interaction between meloxicam, diclofenac sodium or tramadol and nitrogen species radicals: in vitro comparative study.
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2009
Assessment of magnesium and calcium status in oral cancer patients.
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2009
Antibacterial activity of ethanolic extract of myrtus communis. l leaves against salivary mutans streptococci.
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2008
Intraindividual and interindividual variations in psychomotor task performance in spontaneously menstruating women.
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2008
Effects of meloxicam and rofecoxib on psychomotor performance: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled cross-over study.
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2007
Assessment of nitrosative oxidative stress in patients with middle cerebral artery occlusion.
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2007
Gender differences in psychomotor performance after six minutes cycling exercise.
Marwan S.M. Al-Nimer
2007