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
BacteriaBrucella BacteriaSalmonella Viruses VirusesAdenovirus VirusesAfrican swine fever virus VirusesClassical swine fever virus VirusesCoronavirus VirusesCrimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus VirusesFoot-and-mouth disease virus VirusesHerpesvirus VirusesInfectious bursal disease virus VirusesInfluenza virus VirusesMareks disease virus VirusesNewcastle disease virus VirusesParainfluenza virus VirusesParamyxoviruses VirusesPeste des petits ruminants virus VirusesPorcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus VirusesRespiratory syncytial virus
Stage of vaccine development
Antigen discovery and immunogen design Clinical trials Correlates of protection – immunomonitoring Deployment Field trials Pre-clinical trials