Biography:

Ramy K. Aziz is currently a professor and chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Faculty of Pharmacy-Cairo University. He earned his PhD in microbiology and immunology from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, USA in 2005, and, since then performed postdoctoral research at leading institutions including the University of Chicago, San Diego State University, and the University of California San Diego. His research interests span molecular epidemiology, systems biology of microbial pathogens, evolution and emergence microbial pathogenesis and resistance, microbial and bacteriophage genomics and metagenomics, the human microbiome and pharmacomicrobiomics. His scientific publications include a book, 7 book sections, 75 articles in peer-reviewed journals, in addition to blogs and web pages oriented to transformative education and science communication. He?s a former recipient of two awards from TWAS and TWAS-ARO, the Egyptian Incentive State Award جائزة الدولة التشجيعية(2011), and two fellowships from the US National Academies Arab American Frontiers program. He recently received funding from the Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology to establish an Egyptian Genome and Microbiome Center at Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University.

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