Professor Emeritus
Specialty: Microbiology
Short Bio:Maha G Haggag born in Oct 1962 in Cairo, Egypt.
Scientific Degrees: M.B.,B.Ch. June 1986 with total grade very good. Faculty of Medicine Zagazig University, Egypt. M.sc. Nov, 1995 with total grade very good Faculty of Medicine Zagazig University. M.D. Degree May 2004 Microbiology and Immunology Department, Faculty of Medicine Cairo University, Egypt.
Position: Former Head of Microbiology & Immunology Unite, Research Institute of Ophthalmology (RIO), Giza, Egypt. Founder and Supervisor of the Allergy laboratory in the Institute.
Scientific Activities: ►Patent application No.2006040138 at the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology in 2006, the subject of Patent is "Natural Allergenic Extracts for Specific Immunotherapy as Eye Drops".
►Teaching and training courses for: ●Postgraduate students of Faculty of Science registering for M.Sc.in Microbiology Department. ●Ophthalmologists in RIO applying for Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (MRCS) as part of their syllabus of Microbiology and Immunology. ●Teaching Microbiology and Immunology course in the School of Dentistry, New Giza University, Egypt which has partnership with University College London (UCL) since year 2017 to the present.
►Supervision for 5 M.Sc. & one M.D. Thesis
►Reviewer for Journals: Bulletin of the National Research Centre (Springer) and Academic Journals Organization
►Scientific missions:
●Postdoctoral mission for six months from the beginning of March to the end of August 2014 as an Exchange Visitor in the Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, College of Medicine University of Florida. Emerging Pathogens Institute. Gainesville, FL, USA working as Researcher in the "Molecular Typing of Pathogenic Bacteria Program" The grant was offered by the USAID.
●Postdoctoral mission for six months from the beginning of November, 2021 to the end of April, 2022 as an Exchange Visitor in the Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, College of Medicine University of Florida. Emerging Pathogens Institute. Gainesville, FL, USA working as Researcher in "COVID-19 pandemic studies " The grant was offered by the USAID.
►Associate editor: Participation in creating and editing of an open-access scientific journal of the Research Institute of Ophthalmology titled: Journal of Ophthalmology and Related Sciences (JORS).
►Editorial Board Member of new Journal called "Journal of Blindness and Vision Impairment (JBVI)".
►Member of:
• Egyptian Society of Medical Microbiology (ESMM).
• The Arab Society for Medical Research.
• The Scientific Research Committee in the Research Institute of Ophthalmology (RIO).
• Continuous Medical Education Committee in RIO.
• Technology Innovation Commercialization office (TICO) in RIO.
►Projects:
• Principal investigator in the Management of Allergy Project.
• Participating as a member in the Glaucoma Project.
• Participating as a member in the Stem Cells Project.

►Publication of 24 research articles, all are open access.
14 articles are published in Indexed International Journals, 6 in International Journals & 4 in Local Journals

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