The Department of Clinical Pharmacy at the College of Pharmacy, University of Basrah, organized a panel discussion entitled:
(The Nobel Prize in Medicine and the Potential for Its Future Applications in the Field of Clinical Pharmacy)
The panel discussion featured a lecture delivered by Dr. Noor Mohammed Abdulrahman, in which she explained that the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to three scientists—an American and two German scientists—recognized their repeated experiments demonstrating the ability to control the activity of certain nerve cells by exposing them to light of a specific wavelength to act as a stimulant or inhibitor. The experiment is summarized by extracting a light-sensitive protein from algae capable of conducting ions upon stimulation, transferring this protein into nerve cells, illuminating them with light, and subsequently measuring the response.
If expanded and further developed, this milestone will facilitate understanding and pinpointing dysfunction sites for various neurological diseases, such as Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, or vision loss due to optic nerve disorders. Furthermore, it enables the study of the mechanism of specific drugs and the evaluation of their safety profiles through precise monitoring of their effects on nerve cells.

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