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Tarek El-Arabi is an assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural Microbiology, Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt. He graduated from the same department back in 1999 and appointed as teaching assistant. In 2003 he obtained his master’s degree in agricultural virology and traveled to Canada in 2006 for his PhD, which he obtained from University of Guelph in 2011 in Food Safety. He spent one year as a marginal postdoc research scientist at University of Guelph, Canada and Wageningen University, Netherlands. Dr. El-Arabi also worked part-time as food safety consultant to some Egyptian and International food companies, business development director to Pharmacia pharmaceuticals as well as Biotechnology research director at Heliopolis University. He taught and teaching numerous graduate and undergraduate courses at University of Guelph in Canada and Ain Shams University, Heliopolis University and AUC, in Egypt. Dr. El-Arabi is a peer-reviewer to many of reputable international journals including ASM, BMC, PNAS, PLOS. He received many certificates in human development and personal profiling training. Now that he joined the core committee of the Institute of Teaching of Responsible Science in partnership with US National Academy of Science and Bibliotheca Alexandrina he co-organized several workshops on teaching of responsible science. Currently, involved in the catalyst office to support innovative research and patency at Ain Shams University. His research is directed in the area of enhancement of organic agriculture as well as food safety. He has more than 20 different publications in those areas. He’s also the lead investigator of an EU project “BioGuard” and on the advisory committee of 3 master’s and 1 PhD student.
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Research With Dual-Use Potential - What We Want vs. What We Actually Get! |
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"While searching for the hero, we created the monster". This line from the movie Mission Impossible II says it all. All researchers dream of great findings that help massive problems in life. However, in the path going after that dream sometimes we neglect some factors, such as how our research will be perceived by our counterparts (i.e., media and public). Moreover, have you ever thought about all possible ways of what if your findings have fallen in the wrong hands, will be misused? Research with dual-use potential is a common thing happen to all scientists and it only needs one bad person (or group of people) to misuse it and makes you regret of making this research. Awareness of this type of research and how to avoid the misdirection and misuse of your research is highly needed. |
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