Abdullah Algaissi

Associate Professor of Virology

Abdullah Algaissi is an Associate Professor of Virology at Jazan University and Director of the Jazan Health Research Center. His research and teaching cover emerging viral pathogens, viral immunology and vaccine development, with particular attention to coronaviruses and to zoonotic diseases circulating in the Arabian Peninsula. Through the research centre he leads he supports investigator capacity, laboratory-based virological research and collaboration between the university's health faculties and regional public health bodies, working on the epidemiology, drivers and emerging threats of diseases transmitted between animals and humans.