Ramy Karam Aziz

Professor - Chair Department of Microbiology and Immunology Faculty of Pharmacy Cairo University Cairo, Egypt

Biography

Ramy K. Aziz is currently a professor and chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Faculty of Pharmacy-Cairo University. He earned his PhD in microbiology and immunology from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, USA in 2005, and since then performed postdoctoral research at leading institutions including the University of Chicago, San Diego State University, and the University of California San Diego. His research interests span molecular epidemiology, systems biology of microbial pathogens, evolution and emergence microbial pathogenesis and resistance, microbial and bacteriophage genomics and metagenomics, the human microbiome and pharmacomicrobiomics. His scientific publications include a book, seven book sections, 67 articles in peer-reviewed journals, in addition to blogs and web pages oriented to transformative education and science communication. He recently received funding from the Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology to establish an Egyptian microbiome and genome center at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University. Last but not least, he received a NASEM Arab American Frontiers Fellowship to work with Dr. Atul Butte, at the University of California San Francisco in August 2018.