
GAD, Mohamed
Institution: Alexandria University, Egypt
Laboratory/Department : Dept. of Biotechnology, Institute of Graduate Studies and Research
Position:Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Cellular biology
Research topic:
- Lipids analysis
- Nutritional control of disease
- Protein biochemistry, purification and characterization.
- Protein structure prediction
- Drug ducking
Methodologies: HPLC, GC, Bioinformatics tools, BLAST, structure prediction tools.
3 significant publications:
- El Massry AM, Asal AM, Khattab SN, Haiba NS, Awney HA, Helmy M, Langer V, Amer A. Bioorg Med Chem. 2012 Apr 15;20(8):2624-37.
- El Nikhely, N., Helmy, M., and Saaed, H., Abo Shamaa, L. and Abd El Rahman, Z. (2007) Ricin A chain from Ricinus sanguienus: DNA sequence, structure and toxicity. Protein J. 26:481–489
- Morlon-Guyot, J., Helmy, M., Lombard-Frasca, S., Pignol, D., Pieroni, G., Beaumelle, B. : Identification of the ricin lipase site and implication in cytotoxicity. (2003) J Biol Chem., 278: 17006-11.
Participation in the EMN-Online teaching:
S1 -Bioinformatic and biotechnology