Ramy Karam Aziz

Biography

 Dr. Ramy Karam Aziz is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University. He earned his PhD from the University of Tennessee, USA in 2005 for his work on the molecular pathogenesis and genomics of Streptococcus pyogenes. Since then, he performed research in several international institutions, including the University of Chicago, San Diego State University, and University of California-San Diego, and the Argonne National Laboratory with specialization in microbial genomics, bioinformatics, and genome annotation using the subsystems technology. His main research interests are bacterial pathogenesis, molecular epidemiology and systems biology of microbial pathogens, microbial and bacteriophage genomics/metagenomics, and pharmacomicrobiomics (drug-microbiome interactions). Since 2001, he has published a book, 45 articles in peer-reviewed journals, in addition to multiple scientific and non-scientific blogs. At present, he is a member of the American Society of Microbiology and PLoS International Advisory Group; he is a member of the editorial boards of PLoS ONE, BMC Microbiology, Scientific Reports, and Current Pharmacognomics and Personalized Medicine. He received several awards, most recently the Egyptian State Incentive Award in 2011; the Cairo University Young Faculty award of 2011; and the Young Arab Scientist for the year 2010.

Research Interest

 Genomics and Biotechnology