Ahmed ElSherbini
M.Sc. in Biomedical sciences at Antwerp University in Belgium/2017-2019
  • After graduating with a bachelor’s in pharmacy from the faculty of pharmacy at Tanta University, Egypt, Ahmed joined a postgraduate program in clinical pharmacy named Pharm.D in the same faculty to sharpen his clinical skills.
  • During Pharm.D, his graduation project was a cross-sectional comparison between 5 Egyptian hospitals regarding rational antimicrobial usage. Moreover, during his work as a pharmacist in community hospitals, he saw how much antimicrobial resistance burdens society. Gradually he became convinced that he wanted to study the molecular mechanisms behind virulence and resistance, especially since he found himself captivated with bacterial evolution and the new fancy data analysis techniques used to study it. Therefore, he joined the biomedical Master of infectious and tropical diseases at Antwerp University, Belgium.
  • As part of his Master’s thesis, he joined the medical microbiology laboratory at Antwerp University, where he studied clinically relevant Escherichia coli virulence factors. During this work, he applied multiple molecular techniques (PCR, qPCR, NGS, and cloning) and many bioinformatics and programming skills. After graduation, he joined the lab again to assist in a project associated with novel colistin resistance mutations in k. pneumoniae and E. coli.
  • My primary research interest is how to investigate bacterial virulence, the human microbiome, AMR, and host-pathogen interaction using molecular techniques and advanced data analysis methods. Ahmed managed to start a Ph.D. position at Tuebingen University in Germany.