About the Division
The Immunology division is a basic science part of the Medical Microbiology and Immunology Department. It engages in teaching and conduct research on the development and function of the immune system. Understanding the immune system’s role in defense against infection and cancer and in autoimmune disease is the basis for new therapies for many diseases. The department provides a dynamic research environment for immunological discovery and a superb training environment for the next generation of biomedical scientists.
Our mission is to advance our understanding of the function of the immune system in order to enhance our ability to fight infectious disease, cancer and autoimmunity. Basic research of all aspects of immunology is critical to this mission, and translational research is important to link our findings to the development of new therapies.
Staff members
Contact information
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
University of Alexandria
Faculty of Medicine
Phone: 03-4861526
e-mail: Micro-Immunology@.alexmed.edu.eg
Curriculum
Undergraduate:
- Infection and disease
- Resistance and immunity
- The immunological response
- Antigens
- Antibodies
- Complement system
- Major histocompatibility antigens
- Hypersensitivity and autoimmunity
- Basic Immunology
- Advanced Immunology
- Clinical immunology
- Flow cytometer
- New serological assays
- Microarray
- Molecular techniques in clinical immunology
- Tumor markers
- Cell mediated assays
- Immunohematology (Blood banking)
- Infection control assays (ICU) esp. for critical care pts.
- Routine immunological assays (commonly used)
- Immunomodulatory therapy
- Immunosuppressive agents
- Anti-inflammatory agents
- Advanced immunology II
- T-cell receptor
- B-cell receptor
- NK –receptor
- Adhesion molecules
- Monocyte-macrophage receptors
- Neutrophil receptors
- Eosinophil receptors
- Basophil receptors
- Mast cell receptors