Dr
Zaheer
Ahmed
Dr
Zaheer
Ahmed
Microbiologist
USDA, NVSL, FADDL, PIADC
Biography
Working at National Veterinary Services Laboratories, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services, Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Lab, Plum Island Animal Disease Center, New York, USA as Microbiologist.
My area of expertise is veterinary virology and currently working on select agents and studies on emerging and re-emergence of zoonotic diseases in Livestock and poultry using cutting edge technologies.
The major disease that I worked on are AIV, IBV, IBD, vvNDV, FMDV, CSFV, ASFV, RPV, PPRV and others. Research interests
Virology Projects you're working on
FMDV
CSFV
ASFV
RPV
AIV Discipline
Bio-manufacturing Bioinformatics Challenge study design Clinical trials – efficacy Clinical trials – safety Deployment Epidemiology Molecular biology QC test development Quality assurance Regulation Safety evaluation Virology Host species
Buffalo Cattle Pigs Poultry Small ruminants Zoonoses Pathogen
Bacteria›Brucella Bacteria›Salmonella Viruses Viruses›Adenovirus Viruses›African swine fever virus Viruses›Classical swine fever virus Viruses›Coronavirus Viruses›Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus Viruses›Foot-and-mouth disease virus Viruses›Herpesvirus Viruses›Infectious bursal disease virus Viruses›Influenza virus Viruses›Mareks disease virus Viruses›Newcastle disease virus Viruses›Parainfluenza virus Viruses›Paramyxoviruses Viruses›Peste des petits ruminants virus Viruses›Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus Viruses›Respiratory syncytial virus Stage of vaccine development
Antigen discovery and immunogen design Clinical trials Correlates of protection – immunomonitoring Deployment Field trials Pre-clinical trials