Faculty Staff Member Name: Dr. Ahd Ahmed M Mansour Academic Qualification: New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY USA. (Ph.D. degree in the field of Microbiology and Immunology – 2018.New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY USA. (MS degree in the field of Microbiology and Immunology- 2015.Umm AL-Qura University, School of laboratory Medicine, Makkah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. (Bachelor Degree of laboratory Medicine. – 2007. Work Experiences: Medical Technologist: Laboratory of Cytopathology Department at National Guard Hospital (King Abdul-Aziz Medical City), Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (2008 – 2011).Volunteer: Laboratory of Cytopathology Department at National Guard Hospital (King Abdul-Aziz Medical City),Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (October, 2007- December, 2007). International Committee and Professional Memberships: Member of American Society for Microbiology, USA (2016-present)Member of American Association of Immunology, USA (2017-present) International Conference Presentations: Graduate Student Research Forum (GSRF) 27th Annual Meeting, NYMC, NY (2015).American Society for Microbiology (ASM) 116th General Meeting, Boston, MA (2016).American Association of Immunology (AAI) Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (2017).Graduate Student Research Forum (GSRF) 29th Annual Meeting, NYMC, NY (2017).ASM Biothreats Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (2017). Awards: Outstanding Abstract Award, American Society for Microbiology (ASM) (2016)New York Medical College Graduate Faculty Council Awards for the Best Master’s Thesis (2015) Publications: Ahd A. Mansour, Sukalyani Banik, Ragavan V. Suresh, Hardeep Kaur, Meenakshi Malik, Alison A. McCormick, Chandra Shekhar Bakshi. An Improved Tobacco Mosaic Virus (TMV)-Conjugated Multiantigen Subunit Vaccine against Respiratory Tularemia. 2018 Jun 5;9:1195.doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.01195.McCormick AA, Shakeel A, Yi C, Kaur H, Ahd A. Mansour, Chandra-Shekhar Bakshi. Intranasal administration of a two-dose adjuvanted multi-antigen TMV-subunit conjugate vaccine fully protects mice against Francisella tularensis LVS challenge. PLoS One. 2018 Apr 23;13(4):e0194614. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0194614.Ahd A. Mansour, Sukalyani Banik, Ragavan Varadharajan Suresh, Sherri Wykoff-Clary, Meenakshi Malik,Alison A. McCormick, Chandra Shekhar Bakshi. Development of a Multivalent Subunit Vaccine against Tularemia Using Tobacco Mosaic Virus (TMV) Based Delivery System. PLoS One. 2015 Jun 22;10(6):e0130858. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0130858. Email: aamansour@fakeeh.careaamansour@fcms.edu.sa
