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Virologist | ASM Country Ambassador | King Fahad Medical City | University of Tokyo | World Health Organization |

Profile Summary

With more than 14 years of extensive experience in virology research and diagnostics, I am fully skilled in different aspects of the virus infection, cell culture, cloning, banking and sequencing. I am especially adept at planning and coordinating various scientific lab activities and identifying and evaluating potential growth opportunities. From World Health Organization’s (WHO) Polio Eradication Initiative to US Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Japan’s National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID) and more recently here at King Fahad Medical City (KFMC), I have been known as a results-oriented virologist with exceptional written and oral communication skills and the important ability to function well in diverse team environments. Some of my daily duties which I spent most of my work time on included: Producing professional and scientific creative content writings, presentations, constantly performing, monitoring and analyzing research lab activities, and troubleshooting issues. Collaborating with national and international research groups and peers on the improvement of existing virology techniques and processes and testing new methodologies. Participating in the development and executing training courses and lectures, researching current virology trends, and performing various administrative duties. Throughout the years, I have proved numerous times that I am an effective leader possessing excellent organizational and time management skills. Next, I am a Certified Harvard Business School Online Professional and the University of Tokyo graduate with a Doctorate in Microbiology. Finally, I am offering the experience with multiple Virology research labs, for instance, WHO, CDC (Atlanta, GA), BSRI (San Francisco, CA), NIID (Japan), and KFMC (Saudi).

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Virology
• ★ Epidemiology
• ☆ Evolutionary Biology
• ☆ Immunoassay
• ☆ Molecular Biology
• ☆ Public Health
• ☆ Scientific Proofreading & Editing

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI

Writing Technical Writing, Newswriting

Research Market Research, Gray Literature Search, Systematic Literature Review

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Statistical Analysis

Work Experience

Senior Clinical Research Specialist

King Fahad Medical City

May 2016 - Present

Consultant Virologist

Freelance, Self-employed

April 2013 - January 2016

Virologist/Officer/Visiting lecturer

National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

January 2009 - January 2013

Virologist

World Health Organization - Pakistan

October 2003 - September 2008

Education

PhD

University of Tokyo - Japan

April 2009 - March 2013

MPhil Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

August 2001 - September 2003

DVM

University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

March 1996 - December 2000

Certifications

• Certification in Leadership

  Harvard Business School Online

  June 2020 - Present

• Good Clinical Practices

  NIDA Clinical Trials Network

  May 2019 - Present

• Laboratory Accreditation and Compliance

  Wiley

  May 2021 - June 2021

• Molecular Methods for the Characterization of Poliovirus

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA

  January 2008 - March 2008

• Improvement of Virological Techniques for the Global Polio Eradication Initiative

  National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

  January 2006 - February 2006

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Bandar Alosaimi, Asif Naeem, Majed F. Alghoribi, Lilian Okdah, Maaweya E. Hamed, Ahmad S. AlYami, Athari Alotaibi, Mushira Enani (2021). Structural Mapping of Mutations in Spike, RdRp and Orf3a Genes of SARS-CoV-2 in Influenza Like Illness (ILI) Patients . Viruses.

Alosaimi, B., Naeem, A., Hamed, M. E., Alkadi, H. S., Alanazi, T., Al Rehily, S. S., Almutairi, A. Z., & Zafar, A. (2021). Influenza co-infection associated with severity and mortality in COVID-19 patients. Virology journal, 18(1), 127. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12985-021-01594-0 .

Hamed, M. E., Naeem, A., Alkadi, H., Alamri, A. A., AlYami, A. S., AlJuryyan, A., Alturaiki, W., Enani, M., Al-Shouli, S. T., Assiri, A. M., & Alosaimi, B. (2021). Elevated Expression Levels of Lung Complement Anaphylatoxin, Neutrophil Chemoattractant Chemokine IL-8, and RANTES in MERS-CoV-Infected Patients: Predictive Biomarkers for Disease Severity and Mortality. Journal of clinical immunology, 1–14. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10875-021-01061-z .

Aljabr, W., Alruwaili, M., Penrice-Randal, R., Alrezaihi, A., Harrison, A. J., Ryan, Y., Bentley, E., Jones, B., Alhatlani, B. Y., AlShahrani, D., Mahmood, Z., Rickett, N. Y., Alosaimi, B., Naeem, A., Alamri, S., Alsran, H., Hamed, M. E., Dong, X., Assiri, A. M., Alrasheed, A. R., … Hiscox, J. A. (2021). Amplicon and Metagenomic Analysis of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) Coronavirus and the Microbiome in Patients with Severe MERS. mSphere, e0021921. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1128/mSphere.00219-21 .

Asif Naeem, Maaweya Hamed, Majed Alghoribi, Waleed Aljabr, Hadel Alsaran, Mushira Enani, Bandar Alosaimi(2020). Molecular Evolution and Structural Mapping of N-Terminal Domain in Spike Gene of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) . Viruses. 12. (5). p. 502. {MDPI} {AG}

Asif Naeem, Maaweya E. Hamed, Majed F. Alghoribi, Waleed Aljabr, Hadel Alsaran, Mushira A. Enani, Bandar Alosaimi (2020). Molecular Evolution and Structural Mapping of N-Terminal Domain in Spike Gene of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) . Viruses.

Naeem, A., Elbakkouri, K., Alfaiz, A., Hamed, M. E., Alsaran, H., AlOtaiby, S., Enani, M., & Alosaimi, B. (2020). Antigenic drift of hemagglutinin and neuraminidase in seasonal H1N1 influenza viruses from Saudi Arabia in 2014 to 2015. Journal of medical virology, 10.1002/jmv.25759. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmv.25759 .

Alosaimi, B., Hamed, M. E., Naeem, A., Alsharef, A. A., AlQahtani, S. Y., AlDosari, K. M., Alamri, A. A., Al-Eisa, K., Khojah, T., Assiri, A. M., & Enani, M. A. (2020). MERS-CoV infection is associated with downregulation of genes encoding Th1 and Th2 cytokines/chemokines and elevated inflammatory innate immune response in the lower respiratory tract. Cytokine, 126, 154895. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cyto.2019.154895 .

(2016). Neuropathogenicity of Two Saffold Virus Type 3 Isolates in Mouse Models . PloS one.

(2014). Genetic diversity of circulating Saffold viruses in Pakistan and Afghanistan . The Journal of general virology.

(2013). Multiple independent emergences of type 2 vaccine-derived polioviruses during a large outbreak in northern Nigeria . Journal of virology.

(2011). The preparation of an infectious full-length cDNA clone of Saffold virus . Virology journal.

(2009). Genetic characterization of rotavirus subtypes in Pakistan-first report of G12 genotype from Pakistan under WHO-Eastern Mediterranean region . Virus research.

(2009). Metagenomic analyses of viruses in stool samples from children with acute flaccid paralysis . Journal of virology.

(2009). Cardioviruses are genetically diverse and cause common enteric infections in South Asian children . Journal of virology.

(2009). Genomic characterization of novel human parechovirus type . Emerging infectious diseases.

(2009). A newly identified bocavirus species in human stool . The Journal of infectious diseases.

(2008). A highly prevalent and genetically diversified Picornaviridae genus in South Asian children . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

(2007). Molecular epidemiology of Hepatitis B virus genotypes in Pakistan . BMC infectious diseases.

(2007). Common genotypes of Hepatitis B virus prevalent in injecting drug abusers (addicts) of North West Frontier Province of Pakistan . Virology journal.

(2007). Serology based disease status of Pakistani population infected with hepatitis B virus . BMC infectious diseases.

(2007). Epidemiology and clinical findings associated with enteroviral acute flaccid paralysis in Pakistan . BMC infectious diseases.