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