Waleed Abdulkhair
Waleed Abdulkhair is an Associate Professor of Microbiology, Department of Microbiology, Egyptian Drug Authority. He has participated in several international, national, and local conferences on biological and chemical control of plant pathogens. He has published many scientific papers on biological control of plant pathogenic bacteria and fungi in specialized international scientific journals. In 2015, he and an integrated team obtained a patent from the Saudi Patent Office to isolate and identify a novel bacterial strain of the genus Streptomyces characterized by its superior ability to destroy plant pathogenic fungi, especially Fusarium oxysporum lycopersici, which infects and destroys tomato plants. He has co-authored several books on plant pathogens. He is also the editor of a book on yeast and its applied medical roles.