Mohamed Elhadidy

Biography

Dr. Mohamed Elhadidy is currently a professor of Biomedical Sciences at Zewail City for science and technology, Egypt. Dr. Elhadidy  obtained his PhD (2010) in Microbiology from Virginia Tech University, USA. From 2011-2017, Dr. Elhadidy served as a research scientist at School of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Canada; University of Bristol, UK; and University of Gent  and Scientific Institute of Public health  in Belgium. In 2018, he also served as a visiting professor at University of Bath, UK.

Dr. Elhadidy research interests is focused on investigating the ecology, epidemiology, host-adaptive genomic signatures and evolution of different food-borne pathogens causing human infection using different comparative genome analysis and population genetics studies. His most recent research activities implemented different genomics tools to investigate the molecular characterization of different genetic markers that play a role in virulence potential, antimicrobial resistance and transmission of shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli, Campylobacter and Brucella to human. He is an author of more than 40 international scientific publications in this field.

Dr. Elhadidy is a currently serving as executive committee member of the Global Young Academy and a former chair of the GYA selection committee, African Academy of Sciences, Egyptian Young academy of Sciences (EYAS), National Microbiology Council and a former member of committee, National Academy of Sciences, USA to develop framework of faculty members in MENA region and Egypt who are better able to teach issues related to the responsible conduct of science by combining tenets of active learning pedagogical techniques.

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