Mohamed T
Shata , MD, PhD
Research Associate Professor
of Medicine
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MBBS – Cairo University , Cairo, Egypt. MSC – Assuit University, Assuit Egypt. PhD – University of Maryland at Baltimore

Research Summary
Basic immunology: regulation of cellular, humoral and mocosal immune response. Immunology of infectious diseases: hepatitis, HIV, salmonella, schistosomiasis. Immune regulation in infectious diseases: lymphokines, chemokines. Immunoregulation in HIV and hepatitis C: The roles of chemokines and cytotoxic immune response in HIV and hepatitis C infections.

Recent Publications

Al-Sherbiny M, Osman A, Mohamed N, Shata MT, Abdel Aziz F, Abdel Hamid M, Abdel Wahab S, Mikhail N, Abdel-Aziz F, Stoszek S, Ruggeri L, Folgori A, Nicosia A, Prince AM, Strickland GT. Exposure to Hepatitis C Virus in highly endemic area induces cellular immune responses without detectable viremia or seroconversion. ASTMH, 73(1):950-954 (2005).

Farid A, Al-Sherbiny M, Osman A, Mohamed N, Shata MT, Lee D, Prince AM, Strickland GT. Schistosoma infection inhibits cellular responses to core HCV peptides in endemic area in Egypt. Accepted in Parasite Immunology (2005).

Sun J, Li K, Shata MT, and Chan T. The immunologic basis for the hepatitis C infection. Review. Current Opin. Gastroenterology 20:598-602 (2004)

Prince AM, Pawlotsky JM, Soulier A, Tobler L, Brotman B, Pfahler W, Lee DH, Li L, Shata MT. Hepatitis C virus replication kinetics in chimpanzees with self-limited and chronic infections. J Viral Hepat. 2004;11(3):236-42.

Talal AH, Shata MT, Markatou M, Dorante G, Chadburn A, Koch R, Neumann AU, Ribeiro RM, Perelson AS. Virus dynamics and immune responses during treatment in patients coinfected with hepatitis C and HIV. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2004;35 (2):103-13.