Speakers

Hadi M Yassine

Place of Birth : Qatar
Position : Associate Professor & Section Head of Research at Biomedical Research Center (BRC); and Department of Biological Sciences (DBS), College of Health Sciences (CHS), Qatar University (QU)
Field of study : Infectious Diseases, Virology, Immunology, Vaccinology, and Molecular Biology

Dr. Hadi Mohamad Yassine is an associate professor of infectious diseases, section head of research at the Qatar University (QU) ‎Biomedical Research Center ‎‎(BRC), and the chair of the QU IBC committee. He also serves as an adjunct faculty at Hamad Ben Khalifa University-Doha (2018-Current) and previously at the Catholic University of America ‎(CUA)- Washington D.C (2014/2015). In addition to his administrative duties, he leads the ‎communicable diseases section at the BRC. His research and teaching experiences have been fostered by ‎several ‎years of intensive work at state-of-the-art and multi-disciplinary institutions. After earning a Ph.D. ‎degree ‎from The Ohio State University (OSU) in 2009, he worked at the Vaccine Research Center ‎‎(VRC) of the National Institute of ‎Health (NIH) for over five years as a postdoctoral fellow and then as a ‎research fellow. He has excellent experience ‎in the basic and applied biomedical ‎fields, including virology, microbiology, immunology, molecular diagnostics, and vaccine ‎development. He has published more than 185 articles, many of which are in top-tier scientific ‎journals like NEJM, Nature, Nature Medicine, Cell, JAMA, AND Lancet ID. He serves on many committees at QU and other institutions around Qatar. He participated in the organization of several local and international workshops and conferences. He was named a highly cited researcher (top 1% worldwide) by Clarivate in 2021 & 2022. He received ‎several awards in recognition of his work and contributed to seven patents on new ‎designs ‎of viral vaccines (& vaccine evaluation), including the COVID-19 vaccine.

Experiences

1. Associate Professor & Section Head of Research. Biomedical Research Center (BRC); and Department of Biological Sciences (DBS)-College of Health Sciences (CHS), Qatar University (QU). 2015-Current
2. Adjunct Faculty; Center for Food Animal Health - The Ohio State University. 2023-current.
3. Adjunct Faculty; College of Health and Life Sciences, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU). 2018-current
4. Postdoc research fellow; Vaccine Research Center (VRC), National Institute of Health (NIH). 2010-2015
5. Adjunct Assistant Professor; Biology Department, Catholic University of America (CUA). 2014