Abu Salim , male, molecular biologist and immunologist; BSC (1972) and MSc (1974) from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh;and PhD (1979) from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. I have been a Scientist (1980-1987) at the Norwegian Cancer Research Institute, Oslo, Norway (1980 to 1987), Research Associate (1987-1989) at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT, Cambridge, USA, and Assistant Professor (189-192), Associate Professor (1992-1996) and Full Professor (1996-till date) at the Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Kuwait.I became a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists, UK in 1998 and was Visiting Professor (Resource Person Program) of American Society for Microbiology/UNESCO in 2001 and 2004. In the recent years, the focus of my research has been molecular biology and immunology of infectious diseases with specific reference to diagnosis and identification of new vaccine candidates against tuberculosis and other mycobacterial diseases. Abu Salim , male, molecular biologist and immunologist; BSC (1972) and MSc (1974) from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh;and PhD (1979) from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. I have been a Scientist (1980-1987) at the Norwegian Cancer Research Institute, Oslo, Norway (1980 to 1987), Research Associate (1987-1989) at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT, Cambridge, USA, and Assistant Professor (189-192), Associate Professor (1992-1996) and Full Professor (1996-till date) at the Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Kuwait.I became a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists, UK in 1998 and was Visiting Professor (Resource Person Program) of American Society for Microbiology/UNESCO in 2001 and 2004. In the recent years, the focus of my research has been molecular biology and immunology of infectious diseases with specific reference to diagnosis and identification of new vaccine candidates against tuberculosis and other mycobacterial diseases.

Vaccines, Immunology