Dr. Shaheen has completed his Ph.D. at the age of 31 years in the field of virology from Al-Azhar University, Egypt. He works as an associate professor and a leader of environmental virology group at National Research Center, Dokki, Egypt. Shaheen has ten years’ experience in the field of virology. Dr. Shaheen has published several articles in reputed international journals and conferences as well as he is PI and member in several research projects. Dr. Shaheen has been awarded two short term visit as Ph.D. fellow at Slovak Medical University in the Slovak Republic and National Institute for Cholera and Enteric Diseases (NICED) in India. Also, he awarded two postdoctoral fellowships at Padua University in Italy and Liege University in Belgium. In addition, Dr. Shaheen is an editorial board member for several international peer reviewed journals
Dr. Shaheen is interested in viral epidemiology, antiviral research, virus-cell interaction, viral pathogenesis and immunity.