Prof.Mohamed Soliman Mahmoud Sherif

  • Scholarship from Ministry of Higher Education, Egyptian Government, 1992-1994.

Prof. Hossam El-Din El-Nemr

  • Mansoura University best Master thesis award in 1994 (Toxoplasmosis in kidney allograft recipients).

Prof. Mohamed Mohamed Amen Elmalky

  • Scholarship from Ministry of Higher Education, Egyptian Government, 1998-2003.

 

Prof. Samar Nagah El-Beshbishi

  • Scientific Publications Awards, Mansoura University, 2019.
  • Scientific Publications Awards, Mansoura University, 2018.
  • Outstanding Contribution In Reviewing, Elsevier, 2018.
  • Scientific Publications Awards, Mansoura University, 2017.
  • Scientific Publications Awards, Mansoura University, 2015.
  • Scientific Publications Awards, Mansoura University, 2013.
  • Best Oral Presentation Award, 3rd annual conference of the Egyptian Parasitologists united Society in Association with INSTAND/WHO, Cairo-Egypt, 2012.
  • Postdoctoral scholar, University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Galveston, Texas-U.S.A, 2007-2008.
  • Outstanding completion of academic fellowship in the field of Parasitology (Pathology), UTMB, Galveston, Texas-U.S.A, 2003.
  • Scholarship from Ministry of Higher Education, Egyptian Government, 2001-2003.

Prof. Aida Ali Awad

  • Mansoura University best Ph.D. thesis award in 2003 (Immune responses in experimental mice infected with Schistosomamansoni after vaccination with irradiated cercariae by advanced approaches).

Prof. Soha Ibrahim Awad

  • Mansoura University best Ph.D. thesis award in 2008 (Diagnostic utility of polymerase chain reaction in giardiasis).

Prof. Amira Ibrahim Taman

  • Scientific Publications Awards, Mansoura University, 2019.
  • Scientific Publications Awards, Mansoura University, 2014.
  • Best Poster Award. EPU Conference, Cairo-Egypt, 2012.
  • Scholarship from Ministry of Higher Education, Egyptian Government, 2006-2010.
  • Recruitment excellence fellowship, McGill University, 2006.
  • FRONT bridging award, Institute of Parasitology, McGill University.
  • Discovery of three novel genes in Schistosomamansoni fromGenbank  on 2010.

Associate Prof. NairmenNabih Ahmed

  • Scientific Publication Awards,Mansoura University, 2017.

Dr. Manal Ali HeidarElzoheiry

  • Scholarship from Ministry of Higher Education, Egyptian Government, 2015-2017.

 

 

Address: Department of Medical Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, ElGomhouria Street, Mansoura, 35516, Egypt

 

 

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Post-graduate courses

 

   We are responsible for the following post-graduate courses:

Medical Parasitology-Master Degree-Second Part (Basic Immunology, Helminthology, Malacology, Protozoology, Entomology, Laboratory Diagnostic Techniques).

Medical Parasitology-PhD Degree-First Part (Immunology of Parasitic Diseases, Histopathology of Parasitic Diseases, Molecular Parasitology).

Medical Parasitology-PhD Degree-Second Part (Advanced immunology, Advanced Molecular Parasitology, Advanced Helminthology, Advanced Malacology, Advanced Protozoology, Advanced Entomology, Nanotechnology).

Tropical Medicine-Master Degree-First Part.

Public Health and Community Medicine-Master Degree-First Part.

Medical Microbiology and Immunology-Master Degree-First Part.

Dental Public Health-Diploma Degree-Faculty of Dentistry.

 

 Ph_D_Helminth_time_table_2023_3.pdf

MSC_helminthology._2022-2023_docx.pdf

 

 

 

 

 

Under-graduate courses

 

  We are responsible for teaching Medical Parasitology for under-graduate students:

Third year medical students (Conventional Program).

First and second years medical students (Semesters 1-4): Credit hours-based System.

Mansoura-Manchester Medical Program (Semesters 1, 3, 4).In addition, we have participated in teaching Elective Courses in Mansoura-Manchester Medical Program (Academic Writing, People Management, Quality Improvement and Patient Safety).

First year students: Faculty of Nursing, Mansoura University (theoretical lectures of Applied Medical Parasitology).

First and second years students: Health Technical Institute, Mansoura (theoretical lectures and practical sections of Medical Parasitology, Auxiliary health workers).

First year students: Dietetic Program, Faculty of Agriculture, Mansoura University.

 

 

 

 

 

Laboratory facilities:

Medical Parasitology Departments contains:

- Three labs for under-graduate students, supplied with dissecting and light electric microscopes, boards, computers, and data shows.

- Two labs for post-graduate and research studies, containing the following equipments:

  • Centrifuges.
  • Vacuum pump.
  • Autoclave.
  • Hot oven.
  • Thermolyne hot plate.
  • Magnetic hot plate.
  • Spectrophotometer.
  • Vertical electrophoresis.
  • Thermal cycler.
  • pH meters.
  • Speed vortex mixer.
  • Microscopes.
  • Microscope camera.
  • Incubator.
  • ELISA machine.
  • Semi-automated analyzer chemistry.

 

 

Laboratory services:

We can afford the following laboratory tests:

  • Stool examination:
  • Using different concentration techniques (sedimentation and flotation) e.g. formalin-ethyl acetate sedimentation andzinc sulfate flotation concentration.
  • Stained smears using iodine and trichromestains, and staining with Ziehl-Neelsen acid-fast stain, modified Kinyoun’s acid-fast stain, Carbol fuchsin negative stain, safranin stain, Auramine O stain, and modified trichrome stain to detect intestinal coccidian infection (Cryptosporidium parvum,Cystoisosporabelli, Cyclospora cayetanensis).
  • Kato-katz thick smear for quantitative detection of parasitic infections.
  • Preparation of thin and thick blood films, staining with Giemsa andLeishman stains, and microscopic examination for suspected cases of malaria,leishmaniasis, or Bancroftian filariasis, upon referral from Tropical Medicine Department.
  • Microscopic examination of different samples from immunosuppressed adultsand pediatric patients (e.g. bone marrow transplant recipientsand cancer patients) for opportunistic parasites, e.g. Toxoplasma gondii, Cryptosporidium parvum, Cystoisosporabelli,andCyclospora cayetanensis.
  • Immunoassay techniques, e.g. ELISA, IHA.
  • Parasitological cultures.