Mahmoud Elgamal

Mr
Mahmoud
Elgamal

Assistant lecturer of Virology
Cairo University, Virology Department
Biography

I was graduated from Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Cairo University with class A grade in 2014. During, and after, studying I used to practice field measures in diagnosis and treatment of livestocks  since 2012, when i was students. My work went on till iIgot my new job as a demonstrator of virology in my home University in 2016. During field work i witnessed several outbreaks of viral infection that costed the economy immense budget.However, in period of 2014 to 2015, my field work was intermengled by working as marketing team member for a pharmaceutical company. Upon involvement in virology team in the faculty of veterinary medicine, I recruited the problems in vaccines in the field that contributed in multiple outbreak control failure . So, i determined to focus my research on vaccine development strategies in the lab.

Research interests

1-Vaccines development strategies

2-Diagnosis of viral infection .

3- Isolation and characterization of different viruses

Discipline
Molecular biology Virology
Host species
Dogs Fish Poultry Zoonoses
Pathogen
Viruses VirusesCapripoxvirus VirusesCoronavirus VirusesInfluenza virus VirusesParvovirus
Stage of vaccine development
Antigen discovery and immunogen design Correlates of protection – immunomonitoring Field trials