Najlaa al-Radadi

Najlaa Saad al-Radadi is a Saudi academic and a faculty member at Taibah University in al-Madinah al-Munawwarah. She has obtained several patents in the field of chemistry.

Najlaa al-Radadi was born and raised in al-Madinah al-Munawwarah in the western part of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. She completed her elementary, intermediate, and high school education there. She then joined Taibah University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in chemistry with first-class honors. She was internally sponsored to pursue postgraduate studies at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, where she obtained both her master's and doctorate degrees in inorganic chemistry, with both theses published at the university's expense.

Najlaa al-Radadi was appointed as a teaching assistant in the Chemistry Department at Taibah University. In 2010, she became an assistant professor in inorganic and nanochemistry at the same university.

She has published several scientific papers in specialized international journals, focusing on preparing complexes and nanoparticles from medicinal plant extracts.

In 2016, she obtained a patent from the Saudi Patent Office for her research on "New Biologically Active Palladium and Platinum Complexes Derived from Macrocyclic Ligands and Their Effect on Genotoxicity." In 2017, she received another patent from the Saudi Patent Office for "Eco-friendly Preparation of Platinum Nanoparticles with Saudi Date Extracts and Their Use in Cancer Cell Treatment." In 2020, she was granted a patent by the Saudi Authority for Intellectual Property for "Microwave-Assisted Green Synthesis for Preparing Gold-Coated Iron Alloy Nanoparticles to Enhance Olive Oil Efficiency in Eradicating Helicobacter Pylori."

In 2017, she received the Innovation and Excellence Medal from the World Knowledge Exchange Organization in New York at the Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Excellence Conference held in Dubai. In 2018 , she was awarded the Sayidaty Award for Excellence and Creativity in the Medicine and Science category. In 2023, she received the Princess Noura bint Abdulrahman Award for Women's Excellence in the field of Natural Sciences for her work on "Pharmaceutical Applications and New Compounds."

She was included in the list by Stanford University on the Elsevier website, which annually publishes the top 2 percent of the most cited scientists worldwide. This list featured about nineteen researchers from Taibah University's faculty members among two hundred thousand scientists from various research centers and universities across 149 countries.