Dr. Rabeh El-Shesheny is an Assistant Professor of Virology at the Centre of Scientific Excellence for Influenza Viruses (CSEIV), National Research Centre (NRC), Dokki, Egypt. He completed his Postdoctoral Fellowship training at the Division of Virology, Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Additionally, he trained at the World Health Organization Collaborating Center for the study of the ecology of influenza viruses. At the WHO Collaborating Center, he was responsible for sequencing avian influenza samples from Egypt and Bangladesh and providing analyzed sequences for the WHO Influenza Candidate Vaccine Selection Meetings. He also serves as a Consultant for the WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, supporting the strengthening of sequencing capacities through the implementation of next-generation sequencing (NGS), including Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) of influenza and COVID-19, as well as genetic data management to improve regional genome surveillance of influenza and SARS-CoV-2. His research focuses on the genomic evolution and molecular characteristics of influenza, MERS-CoV, and SARS-CoV-2. Since 2020, he has been an Assistant Professor at the NRC, where he leads and organizes the CSEIV group, which consists of Postdoctoral Fellows, PhD students, and Master's students.