Edrous Alamer, PhD, is an associate professor of microbiology and immunology in the Department of Applied Medical Laboratory Technology, Faculty of Nursing and Health Sciences, Jazan University, Saudi Arabia. He earned his BSc in Biomedical Science from the University of Portsmouth, UK; his MSc in Clinical Laboratory Science from Quinnipiac University, USA; and his PhD from the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Galveston, Texas, USA. During his doctoral training, he worked with Dr. Robin Stephens on host immunity to malaria and non-typhoidal Salmonella dissemination during Plasmodium chabaudi infection and with Dr. Haitao Hu and Dr. Lynn Soong on HIV immunology. At Jazan University, he teaches and supervises master’s students in clinical laboratory science. His current research focuses on antimicrobial resistance and laboratory biomarkers in hospitalized patients, healthcare-associated reservoirs of resistant bacteria, Helicobacter pylori and public health among university students, malaria in low-transmission settings, and immunoinformatics vaccine design. His work supports antimicrobial stewardship and infection control in southwestern Saudi Arabia. ORCID: 0000-0002-9700-1610.