• Development of an in-house COVID-19 serology ELISA Test 

      Chowdhury, Shazeda; Taleb, Sara; Elgamal, Mahmoud; Hassan, Nesyia; Nomikos, Michail; ... more authors ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2021 , Article)
      Background: COVID-19 pandemic created an unprecedented demand for reagents and diagnostic tools to confirm COVID-19 cases. Thus, the development of a robust in-house diagnostic test is considered of high importance. Within ...
    • Epidemiology of SARS-CoV2 in Qatar's primary care population aged 10 years and above 

      Syed, Mohamed Ahmed; Al Nuaimi, Ahmed Sameer; A/Qotba, Hamda Abdulla; Nasrallah, Gheyath K; Althani, Asmaa A; ... more authors ( BMC , 2021 , Article)
      There is an urgent need to elucidate the epidemiology of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV2) and characterize its potential impact. Investing in characterising the SARS-CoV2 will help plan and ...
    • Forecasting the impact of environmental stresses on the frequent waves of COVID19 

      Yu, Zhenhua; Abdel-Salam, Abdel Salam G.; Sohail, Ayesha; Alam, Fatima ( Springer , 2021 , Article)
      A novel approach to link the environmental stresses with the COVID-19 cases is adopted during this research. The time-dependent data are extracted from the online repositories that are freely available for knowledge and ...
    • High–temporal resolution profiling reveals distinct immune trajectories following the first and second doses of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines 

      Rinchai, Darawan; Deola, Sara; Zoppoli, Gabriele; Kabeer, Basirudeen Syed Ahamed; Taleb, Sara; ... more authors ( American Association for the Advancement of Science , 2022 , Article)
      Knowledge of the mechanisms underpinning the development of protective immunity conferred by mRNA vaccines is fragmentary. Here, we investigated responses to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) mRNA vaccination via ...
    • The transcriptomic profiling of SARS-CoV-2 compared to SARS, MERS, EBOV, and H1N1 

      Alsamman, Alsamman M; Zayed, Hatem ( Public Library of Science , 2020 , Article)
      The SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic is a global crisis that threatens our way of life. As of November 18, 2020, SARS-CoV-2 has claimed more than 1,342,709 lives, with a global mortality rate of ~2.4% and a recovery rate of ...
    • Vaccine Development Against COVID-19 Prior to Pandemic Outbreaks, Using in vitro Evolution and Reverse Genetics 

      Zayed, Hatem ( Frontiers Media , 2020 , Article)
      Developing vaccines against COVID-19 during or after future pandemic outbreaks will be too slow to ‎save lives. The opinion presented here is that we can anticipate the virus genomic structures that will ‎emerge and cause ...