Dr. Mohamed Omar Elasri has been an active researcher in the area of infectious diseases since his postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health (1999), followed by a second postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (2000-2002).
Dr. Mohamed Omar Elasri has operated a highly active lab with consistent extramural funding and trained a large number of doctoral, master, and undergraduate research students (10 Ph.D., 3 MS, >60 undergrads). He also developed collaborative, interdisciplinary research with biologists, chemists/biochemists, computer scientists, and material scientists to develop anti-microbial surfaces, international databases, etc.
He is also working as Principal Investigator of Mississippi INBRE.