Head of the Microbiology and Immunology Research Program at the Children’s Cancer Hospital of Egypt (CCHE 57357) and Professor at the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, which he chaired 2016-2021. He received his PhD in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of Tennessee, Health Science Center in Memphis TN; and carried out postdoctoral research at the University of Chicago, San Diego State University, and the University of California San Diego.

His research interests include span various areas of microbiology and immunology, microbial and phage genomics, host-pathogen interactions and microbiomics. More specifically, he contributed to early bacterial genome analysis tools and to establishing pharmacomicrobiomics as a novel field of research.

He is indebted to Cairo University, the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT), and the Mounir Armanious Research Center (MARC) for funding me through research grants, and to CCHE 57357 for supporting open access publications.

Through the past 22 years, he published 115 peer-reviewed articles, one book, 9 book sections, and maintains two bioinformatics databases. He has been honored by generous awards, including two awards from The World Academy of Sciences (2010 and 2014), جائزة الدولة التشجيعية, COMSTECH (2017), Makram Mehany Award (2020), and recently the Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation Arab Researchers Award (2022). He had the honor to serve as a member of advisory committees on COVID-19 at Cairo University, Ministry of Higher Education, and the World Academy of Science.

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