Tamer Ahmed Mansour Ahmed

Tamer Ahmed Mansour Ahmed

Assistant Research Scientist

Population Health & Reproduction


Education
2014, PhD, Michigan State University, Michigan
2004, M.Sc., Mansoura University,
2000, MBChB, Mansoura University,
Honors and Awards
2001 A scholarship to obtain Sun Microsystems Java2 certification in programming . The grants covered the tuition and full-time stipends for 9 months.
Funding agency: he Egyptian Communication ministry
2008 Scholarship for the International Bioinformatics Software School in Morocco. The grants covered the expenses of registration and lodging.
Funding agency: the International Bioinformatics Software School in Morocco
2012 Scholarship for 17th Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics. The grants covered the tuitions of 3 courses in bioinformatics and statistical genetics.
Funding agency: University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

2012 Graduate Student Research Enhancement Award $1k
Funding agency: The Graduate School at Michigan State University, MI.

2012 Travel grant $1.2k. Funding agency: The Genetics program and Quantitative biology program, MSU, MI.
2014 A scholarship for PhD in Genetics and Bioinformatics in Michigan State University for $200k.
2019 Best of Show Prize
2024 Travel Grant in the amount of $800
2024 Best Poster Award Scavenging for Egyptian crAss-like phage"
Research Focus
My research covers three interconnected lines: developing new bioinformatic tools to enable large scale data analysis, building high-quality genomic resources, and analysis of functional genomic data.
Specialty Focus
Bioinformatics
Ten Recent Publications

2026
Helmy M, Shafei F, Pellegrina D, Jin L, Alhossary A, Wilson HL, Mansour T, Selvarajoo K
AI-driven discovery in protein science for immunology and infectious disease research

2025
Helmy M, Jin L, Alhossary A, Mansour T, Pellagrina D, Selvarajoo K
Ten simple rules for optimal and careful use of generative AI in science

2025
Abdelmalek CM, Singh S, Fasil B, Horvath AR, Mulkey SB, Curé C, Campos M, Cavalcanti DP, Tong VT, Mercado M, Daza M, Benavides MM, Acosta J, Gilboa S, Valencia D, Sancken CL, Newton S, Scalabrin DMF, Mussi-Pinhata MM, Vasconcelos Z, Chakhtoura N, Moye J, Leslie EJ, Bulas D, Vezina G, Marques FJP, Leyser M, Del Campo M, Vilain E, DeBiasi RL, Wang T, Nath A, Haydar T, Muenke M, Mansour TA^, du Plessis AJ, Murray JC, Cordero JF, Kousa YA
Building a growing genomic data repository for maternal and fetal health through the PING Consortium

2022
Moussa DG, Sharma AK, Mansour TA^, Witthuhn B, Perdigão J, Rudney JD, Aparicio C, Gomez A
Functional signatures of ex-vivo dental caries onset

2021
Rolón-Martínez S, Habib MR, Mansour TA, Díaz-Ríos M, Rosenthal JJC, Zhou XN, Croll RP, Miller MW
FMRF-NH 2 -related neuropeptides in Biomphalaria spp., intermediate hosts for schistosomiasis: Precursor organization and immunohistochemical localization