Biography

Ahmad Abdel-Mawgoud Saleh is a Professor of synthetic biology at Université Laval, a position he has held since February 2019. He received his university education at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Ain Shams University (Egypt), earning a B.Sc. in Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2002 and an M.Sc. in Microbiology in 2008. He then moved to Canada, where he completed his Ph.D. in Biology in 2015 and a subsequent year of postdoctoral training, both under the supervision of Prof. Eric Déziel at the INRS–Institut Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie Research Centre. During his doctoral studies, he earned numerous awards and distinctions, most notably the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (NSERC).

In fall 2015, he accepted a position as assistant professor in microbiology at his alma mater, where he taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses in microbiology and biochemistry. In February 2017, he joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Gregory Stephanopoulos, supported by an NSERC postdoctoral fellowship (Feb. 2017 – Jan. 2019), before taking up his current professor position at Université Laval.

Prof. Abdel-Mawgoud’s broad research interest lies in synthetic biology for drug biosynthesis and drug discovery, with a specific focus on the heterologous production of glycolipids in yeasts (read more). Since joining Université Laval, he has secured several research grants. His institutional website is available here.

Affiliations/Memberships

Scopus author ID: 55367319800
Researcher ID (Publons/Web of Science/Thomson Reuters): A-7431-2010
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2102-0572
Web of Science ID: A-7431-2010