Dr. Mohamed Nagy Saad (senior member, IEEE) is currently an associate professor at biomedical engineering department, Minia University. He was the head of the biomedical engineering department, Misr University for Science and Technology (MUST) in 2022-2023. He was selected to receive the distinction in post-graduate studies prize from Cairo University for his distinguished PhD thesis. His PhD research was focused on conducting genome-wide association study (GWAS) using haplotype block partitioning methods on rheumatoid arthritis (RA) disease to identify the associated single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). His PhD research is included in the GWAS Catalog run by the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI).
Dr. Nagy was selected for the German Egyptian Research Short-Term Scholarship Programme (GERSS) awarded by the DAAD as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Biostatistics and Informatics in Medicine and Aging (IBIMA), Rostock University Medical Center, Germany. His postdoctoral research is a further step in understanding how SNPs play a role in disease occurrence biologically by conducting transcriptome-wide association study (TWAS) on melanoma pathogenesis. After applying the TWAS, a gene enrichment analysis, gene-microRNA regulatory network, and a disease enrichment analysis were applied to discover significant TWAS associations.
He had authored many research papers in the field of genetic association studies dealing with several diseases such as RA, Behcet’s disease, breast cancer, fibroadenoma, multiple sclerosis, and osteoporosis. Dr. Nagy contributed reviews for more than 40 international scientific journals/conferences. He volunteered as invited speaker, jury, and session chair for some international conferences in the field of bioinformatics, biotechnology, and biomedical engineering. He had been an Adjunct Professor in Nile University, Arab Academy for Science Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT), and EG-CompBio project. He had been an Algorithms Team Lead for BioBusiness Co.