Abdelaziz Yassin
Abdelaziz is a PhD student in the Vesicular disease Reference Laboratory Group led by Dr Donald King at The Pirbright Institute, working on foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV).
Abdelaziz obtained his BVSc and Masters in Virology from Cairo University, Egypt. His masters project focused on developing a novel intranasal vaccine using immune adjuvant nanoparticles to be used in emergent situation.
He has seven years industrial experience in FMDV vaccine development, production, and evaluation.
His current PhD project aims develop novel serological tools that can be used to measure serotype-specific responses in livestock after vaccination and infection.
Committees
- World Society for Virology
- Microbiology Society
- American Society for Microbiology
- International Veterinary Vaccinology Network
- African Virology Network
- Egyptian Society for Virology
- Egyptian Biosafety Association
Conferences
General, Animal, and Plant Research and Diagnostics sessions of the Biosafety and Biosecurity training course (bbtc), Fort Collins, Colorado, USA, 18-12 July 2019
Veterinary Biologics Training Program, Institute for International Cooperation in Animal Biologics at Iowa State University and the United States Department of Agriculture Centre of Veterinary Biologics, 20-24 May 2019.
2nd Annual Biorisk Management Symposium, BIORIM 2019, Tunis, Tunisia, 2-5 April 2019.
FMD vaccination and post-vaccination monitoring workshop,The European Commission for the control of Foot-and-Mouth disease (EuFMD) in Cairo, Egypt, January 2019.