Joseph Koussa, Ph.D.

Visiting Scientist

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Education:

Ph.D., Biology, New York University, USA

M.Sc., Molecular Biology, Lebanese American University, Lebanon

B.Sc. in Biology, University of Ottawa, Canada

Languages Spoken: French, Arabic
Portrait of Joseph Koussa, Ph.D.

Biography

Joe is an Associate Professor at Montgomery Community College in Maryland. He is interested in the parasitism of filarial nematodes and uses Brugia malayi as a model filarial parasite to investigate the host-parasite interface tackling glycomic, proteomic and immune-relevant interactions between the parasite and its human host.