Amani Abul-Qumsan, a 21-year-old female student from Gaza, is preparing to participate in the international science festival to be held April 2013 in the United States, where she will officially declare that she has invented a new pain-relieving medicine without side effects.

Abul-Qumsan, in her third year in the faculty of pharmacy at al- Azhar University in Gaza City, has recently earned an international patent for her pain-relieving medicine without any side effect to the heart or brain. Her patent was considered as the best 15 scientific researches in the world.

Abul-Qumsan told Xinhua that her inspiration of inventing the new medicine came after she studied the cases of babies who are born without senses, except feeling cold or warm.

"Babies who only feel cold or warm are those who usually suffer from hereditary defect in their genes that control the body's senses, then the idea came to my mind of creating a new medicine based on this theory," said Abul-Qumsan.

She added that her medicine does not affect other body organs and completely differs from other pain-relieving medicines that obstruct canals of sodium in human bodies and badly affect the heart and brain of the patient.

Abul-Qumsan has sent her scientific research to a competition organized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in which 15 out of 500 students from all over the world earned international medical patents.

"I'm one of the 15 who finally won," said Abul-Qumsan.

"I contacted the organization (FDA) and told them I can't find humans or animals to test the medicine, they agreed to take a sample of my medicine and try it on humans and animals," she said, adding that "the results were excellent."

The FDA sent a delegation of six scientists to Gaza to meet the college student, according to Abul-Qumsan. "After they found that everything was true, they decided to give me the patent," she added.

Besides, the FDA approved to use the Gaza student's medicine for human use. "This is another certificate showing that my medicine succeeded," the girl said.

"It's really a new jump in the field of pain-relieving medicine in 10 years," her professor Mohamed Shubair said, adding that in next April, Abul-Qumsan will go to the festival and compete with three other students for the qualification of running for the Nobel Price in medicine.

Abul-Qumsan, who began to think about inventing something useful for humanity when she was 16 years old, called for promoting the education development in the Palestinian territories and providing schools and colleges there with all what students need for researches and scientific tests.

(Source: Xinhua)