Dr. Fahim Ahmad is presently a researcher in the Department of infectious diseases at Drug Discovery Division, Southern Research, Birmingham. Alabama, USA. He received his Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics from University of Bundelkhand, Jhansi, India. He completed his first postdoctoral training at the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis and second postdoctoral training from Texas Tech University, El Paso Texas later he joined as Scientist and lecture in this University. He is also working independently on Zika project. He is the member of Board of Director Integrated Biotechnological Research Institute and is a member of several editorials boards and reviewer for scientific journals. He has also published papers to various international journals and conferences. He also honored many awards such as Senior Research Fellowship and Nick Norgan Award for the best Article from Annals of Human Biology, UK (2012).
Dr. Fahim Ahmad’s research interest is in Molecular and Cell Biology, Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics. His current research is focused on understanding the AKT-mTOR pathway in the Zika virus (ZIKV)-induced apoptosis of human fetal neural stem cells.
