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Johns Hopkins University of America announced the development of an internal test that might relieve pressure on the central laboratories conducting the Corona virus, which would allow testing for 1,000 people daily.
Dr. Heba Mostafa, director of the Laboratory for Molecular Viruses at Johns Hopkins University Hospital, announced the development of an internal test for the Corona virus in just 3 days, so people can tell whether they have corona or not, allowing doctors to quickly identify patients and start a virus control protocol.
In the following lines, we know who Dr. Heba Mostafa is Director of the Molecular Virology Laboratory:
Dr. Heba Mostafa, assistant professor of pathology, received her doctorate in the Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University in 2004, followed by a period of training and residency in clinical pathology at the university.
She moved to the United States where she obtained her Ph.D. in Microbiology in 2014 at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas.
During the doctoral thesis, Dr. Heba Mostafa worked on studying the interaction between the herpes simplex virus of the first type and the host cell, where this research revealed various innovative aspects about the regulation of the functions of different viral proteins, their interaction with host cellular factors, and how this translates into effective viral transcription Virus Activation, this work was published in 10 peer-reviewed publications, presented at over 12 local and national meetings.
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During 3 years, Dr. Heba pursued a postdoctoral research fellowship at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, where she focused on the study of influencing the spread of influenza viruses and its relationship to the immune system and its spread in research conducted in cooperation with experts in the field of influenza and infectious diseases.
Upon completion of the research fellowship, Dr. Heba completed the two-year Clinical Microbiology Fellowship at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC), New York, during which period Dr. participated in the implementation of the complete genome sequencing, and by using this complete genome sequencing, this infiltration can infect viruses in hospitals And distinguishing internal pathogens.
She was board certified in Medical Microbiology by the American Board of Medical Microbiology.
Dr. Mustafa was appointed as Assistant Professor of Pathology and Director of the Molecular Virology Department at the Medical Microbiology Laboratory in July 2019, and in a short time at Johns Hopkins University she did many research and initiated many interdisciplinary research collaborations.
It is also developing a research program that focuses on implementing full genome sequencing in the clinical virology laboratory with a focus on studying viral genomic evolutionary events.