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Rank
Professor -
Degree
PhD -
Specialization
Immunology -
Major
Malaria Vaccine Development -
Research Field
Immunology – Malaria Diseases and Vaccines
Born in Zgharta, 1959
Scientific Qualifications
- PhD in "Immunology" from Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6 in 1991.
- Master of Advanced Study in Immunology from Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6 in 1985.
- Bachelor in Cell Biology from Lille 1 University of Science and Technology in 1982.
Professional Career
- Professor of Immunology at the Faculty of Public Health of the Lebanese University since 1995.
- Dean of the Faculty of Public Health of the Lebanese University between 2019-2023.
- Director of the Laboratory Sciences Department at the Faculty of Public Health (Branch 2) at the Lebanese University between 2015 and 2019.
- Member of the Scientific Committee of the Doctoral School of Science & Technology and Coordinator of the Research Master Program in Bio-Health since 2015.
- Co-manager of the "Laboratory of Immunology and Vector-borne Diseases" at the Doctoral School of Science & Technology since 2000.
- Employee at the Biomedical Parasitology Laboratory at the Pasteur Institute, Paris between 1992 and 1993.
- Supervisor of a number of PhD dissertations at the Lebanese University between 2008 and 2017.
- Author of more than 20 scientific papers published in international peer-reviewed scientific journals.
- Owner of an international patent in “antigens stimulating malaria-protective antibodies”.
