Journal of Clinical and Cellular Immunology
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Zouhair Atassi M

Biography

Dr. Atassi has received many honors and awards, mong which are the Kuwait Prize in Basic Sciences the Harden Medal and Jubilee Lecture of the Biochemical Society. He has been named Distinguished Lecturer and/or honorary professor by a number of US and foreign universities and institutions.

Dr. Atassi has published over 350 research articles and edited/co-edited 15 books. He is Editor-in-Chief of Protein Journal, Protein Reviews; Critical Reviews in Immunology, Forum on Immunopathological Diseases and Therapeutics; Editorial Committee of Immunological Investigations; Editorial Board member of a number of other journals; member Scientific Advisory Board of the Neurotoxin Institute; Scientific Advisory Board of Center for Bio-security Science, Los Alamos National Laboratory; President of the Institute of Immunobiology and International Symposium of Immunobiology, the King Faisal International Prize selection committees for science and for medicine. Previous positions include: Member of the Edman Award Selection Committee, Chair of International Conference on Methods in Protein Structure Analysis (MPSA 1994), co-chair of International Conference on Neurotoxins (ICON 2006).

Current research focuses primarily on mechanisms and manipulation of autoimmunity and molecular recognition of, and protection against, botulinum neurotoxins

Research Interest

Mouse and Rat, Human, Immunology, Protein Structure-Function and Protein Folding, Membranes and Membrane Proteins, Molecular Basis of Human Disease and Behavior

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