Hany Marei, Professor of Cytology and Histology
Project Manager of Biomedical Research Center,
New Research Complex,Qatar
Hany Marei, Ph.D. is a full professor since 2005, and he worked as the Head of Cytologyand Histology Department, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Mansoura University,Mansoura, Egypt (1996 - May 2015). From May 2015 he moved to Qatar where he worksas a project manager for one of the state-of-the-art Biomedical Research Center (BRC) atQatar University (QU). His research interest lies in the field of gene expression, pathwayanalysis, and genetic profiling of stem cells. He published several papers (PLOS,Genomics, Molecular Cancer) on genetic profiling of adult human olfactory bulb neuralstem cells (OBNSCs) and Glioblastoma Cancer stem cells. He also published manypapers about the therapeutic potential of human olfactory bulb neural stem cells (ONNSC)for neurodegenerative and traumatic diseases including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s (PD) andspinal cord injury (SCI). He is developing pre-clinical models to use OBNSC in the treatmentof AD, PD and SCI. He is specially interested in exploring the molecular mechanismunderlying Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and identification of common and rare variants(SNPs) associated with AD. After arrival to QUBRC, he finished a systematic reviewarticles article (under publication in Genomics) about “Rare and common variantsassociated with Alzheimer’s diseases”, he prepared a book chapter (under withBentham Science Publishers (eBook series “Frontiers in Clinical Drug Research-AlzheimerDisorder; Vol. 4”. He is currently working on several systematic review and meta-analysisstudies about genomic sequences associated with AD. He has a very good experienceand training in working with recent genomic analysis tools such as PLINK, STATA, IMPUT2, and Galaxy which enable him to do analysis for genome wide association studies(GWAS), and whole genome (WGS), and exome (WES) sequence on available andplanned genotyping and sequencing using high throughput genotyping and nextgeneration sequencing platforms.
Dr Marei earned a BVSc in Veterinary Medicine in Alexandria University, Egypt andearned his PhD in Electron Microscopy, immunohistochemistry through a channel systemprogram between Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Suez Canal University, Egypt, andVirginia-Maryland Regional Collage of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia Tech., USA.
He obtained training at Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Catholic University, Italy
during 2011.After that, he worked as Professor in Mansoura University, Egypt since 2005. Since2009 he is working intensively in the field of stem cells biology. During this period Dr.Marei published several articles on gene expression profiling of adult human olfactory bulbneural stem cells, including embryonic neural stem cells, and dopaminergic neurons,effects of overexpression of hNGF on proliferation and differentiation potential of NSC. Dr.Marei demonstrated potential applications of adult human neural stem cells in severalanimal models of human injuries including AD, PD, and SCI. Currently; he has ongoingpre-clinical trial on the use of OBNSC for AD, PD, and SCI. Also, he is the manager of ISO17025 international accreditation project for the molecular biology unit at the central lab ofFaculty of Veterinary Medicine, Mansoura University, Egypt.Dr.Marei is an editorial board member for: American Journal of Current Genetics,Accounts of Biotechnology Research, Journal of Pediatric Oncology, and Journalof Cytology and Tissue Biology. He is areviewer in several international indexed journalssuch as Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, BMC VeterinaryResearch, and others. He is also a member for promotion of professor and associateprofessor at the Supreme Council of Universities, Egypt. He had defended more than 20master and PhD thesis in Cytology and Histology, and reviewers for more than 100 papersin the field of Biology, Histology, Genetics, and Cytology.