Ahmed Moustafa
Co-Director Center For Microbial Medicine at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolAhmed Moustafa is a microbial genomics and molecular epidemiology leader with a decade of experience bridging clinical pediatrics and bioinformatics at the University of Pennsylvania and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. As Director of the Microbiome Sequencing Core and Co-Director of microbialARC, he builds and curates a cryo-genomics archive to track pathogen evolution, virulence, and antimicrobial resistance at scale. His background as a pharmacist and PhD-trained microbiologist informs a pragmatic, translational approach to genomic surveillance and outbreak investigation. He has collaborated internationally from Murdoch and Monash to the American Museum of Natural History, combining hands-on sequencing, phylogenetics, and computational analysis. Notably, he translates bench-level sample stewardship into analytics-ready collections, accelerating research that links genomic variation to clinical impact.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Sciences Pharmacy, Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Sciences Pharmacy at Alexandria UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Biomedical Sciences (Microbiology), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Biomedical Sciences (Microbiology) at Murdoch University
English, German, Arabic, French
Github Skills (44)
package-management10
conda10
bioinformatics10
bioconda10
genomes9
bacteria9
genomics8
genome8
genome-annotation8
gwas8
assembly7
nextflow7
ncbi7
python7
pathogen7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ahmedmagds/GNUVID
May 2020 - Oct 2021
Contributions:12 releases, 56 commits, 44 pushes in 1 year 5 months
ahmedmagds/WhatsGNU
Feb 2019 - Apr 2021
WhatsGNU: a tool for identifying proteomic novelty
Contributions:6 releases, 2 reviews, 121 commits in 2 years 3 months
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