Dr. Amira Awad Moawad

Dr. Amira Awad Moawad works as an Associate Professor of Microbiology at the Animal Health Research Institute in Egypt and Friedrich-Loeffler Institute, the Federal Animal Health Research Institute in Germany. Since 2017 until now, she became a scientific researcher at Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Institute of Bacterial Infections and Zoonoses, Jena, Germany. She got two academic degrees. The first was PhD from Egypt and the second was Doctor Med. Vet. from Free University of Berlin, both are in the area of antimicrobial resistance in zoonotic pathogens between humans and animals. In 2016, she was granted from DAAD for Post doctor-Research in Germany. Since 2017 she has been involved in Veterinary medical research, coordinate international projects and training of veterinary practices in Friedrich Loeffler Institute. Starting from 2018 until now, she whas been involved in research projects with Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut and German Federal Foreign Office in the Frame of the German Biosecurity Programme. She is currently coordinating other project with Egypt in the frame of Biosafety and Biosecurity.
She is an expert in the fields of Microbiology, Molecular biology, and Immunology. She has published several international publications in high ranked-Journals concerning the Emerging MDR-Pathogens (such as MRSA, E. coli, Salmonella spp., Campylobacter Spp., Brucella Spp., Coxiella burnetii, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Burkholderia mallei), Virulence determinants, and the mechanisms of multidrug resistance, and Food-borne pathogens, in addition to Epidemiological and Molecular diagnostic tools.
She is concerned with the One Health approach, using the highly advanced tools of genome analysis and next-generation sequencing.
She has given many talks and published many articles in several proceedings in different international scientific symposiums and conferences.
She is a trainee at the One Health Training Program. She is a scientific reviewer at many international high ranked journals such as; Frontiers in Microbiology, BMC in Microbiology, Toxins, Molecules, Journal of Applied Microbiology, Plos One, Microorganisms, Antibiotics, European Journal of Medical Research, Diagnostics, Tropical medicine and infectious diseases, PeerJ Life and environment, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Qeios and Taylor&Francis peer reviewed journals. She works as an Associate Editor at BMC Microbiology. Besides, she serves as a guest Editor in Journal of Antibiotics.
She is a member of Microbiology Society in London, German Research Platform for Zoonoses and Egyptian Knowledge Bank