Dr Abou Abdallah Malick DIOUARA holds a PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology obtained in 2014, carried out jointly between the Universities of Cheikh Anta DIOP (UCAD) in Senegal and Montpellier in France. His research interests are based on Health & Environment interface. In 2018, after his... Read more

Dr Abou Abdallah Malick DIOUARA holds a PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology obtained in 2014, carried out jointly between the Universities of Cheikh Anta DIOP (UCAD) in Senegal and Montpellier in France. His research interests are based on Health & Environment interface. In 2018, after his postdoctoral experience in bioinformatics at the University of Quebec in Montreal (Canada), Dr DIOUARA joined the Chemical Engineering and Applied Biology Department of the Advanced School of Engineering (ESP of UCAD) as an Assistant Professor. He is in charge of the teaching of Molecular Biology and Genomics. As Group leader, Dr DIOUARA coordinates laboratory activities for the Applied Biotechnologies and Environmental Bioprocesses Research Group (GRBA-BE). His research focuses on antimicrobial resistance, viral hepatitis (B, C, D, and E), enteroviruses, HIV and recently coronaviruses. His current work is mainly focused on the molecular epidemiology of the hepatitis E virus (HEV) in Senegal. Ongoing investigations are being carried out at the level of human populations, on food matrices (fruits, vegetables, meat products), domestic fauna, the environment (through wastewater mixed with rainwater during flooding episodes), all based on a One Health approach.