Dr. Ahmed Elshamy is an assistant dean of research, Director of Master of Pharmaceutical Sciences program and associate professor of Virology at California Northstate University. In 2009, he received his Ph.D. in Molecular Virology from Kobe University, Japan. His Ph.D. study was selected as the Medical School Excellent Paper for the 2008–2009 Academic Year. In 2011, he joined the Division of Liver Diseases at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York as a senior post-doctoral fellow. He received the 2014 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Award and the 2013 Encouragement State Prize in Medical Sciences from the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, Egypt. His research focuses on investigating the molecular biology underlying the intra- and extra-hepatic pathogenesis of viral hepatitis. He has published more than 33 publications in high-impact peer-reviewed journals.