Prof. Dr. Nagwa Mohamed Amin Aref

Nagwa Mohamed Amin Aref, Molecular Virologist graduated from Microbiology department Ain Shams University in 1974, Cairo, Egypt. PhD, 1984 in plant Virology as channel system study with University of Hohenheim, Institute fur phytomidizine, Stuttgart, Germany. She worked as staff member in Microbiology Department until 2000.Participating in the detection of Plant viral disease of the research program 1984-1989 at Michigan State University East Lansing, USA. Co-investigator at AGERI (Agriculture Genetic Engineering Research Institute), Ministry of Agriculture, Egypt, 1990-1996in UNDP project entitled:” Engineering tomato transgenic plants resistant for Tomato Yellow Mosaic Gemini Virus” in contribution with Scripps Research Institute, San Diego,USA. Exchange Visitor professor for a short term research scholarship in Electron Imaging Center, California NanoSystem Institute (CNSI).University of California UCLA, Los Anglos USA. She published more than 40 publications; she is working now as professor in College of Science, king Saud University, Department of Botany and Microbiology. Recently, she focused in the studding application of using nanoparticles and its effects on virus particles to induce resistance to the plant virus. Study and Diagnose the diversity of virus Strain in different ecosystem .Study the immune response and prognostic serological markers for HBV and HCV in Saudi cohorts.