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Dr. Mohamed Abdelgawad

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College / Department

College of Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Teaching areas

Fluid mechanics, gas dynamics, measuring instruments, Engineering mathematics, microfluidics

Research areas

Microfluidics and its biological applications including biological sample processing, medical diagnostics, cellular mechanobiology, and swimming behavior of sperm cells. I am also interested in studying the physics of liquid manipulation on the microscale including electrowetting, contact angle saturation, and digital microfluidics.

Education

BSc, Assiut University, Egypt, 1998
MASc, Concordia University, Canada, 2003
PhD, University of Toronto, Canada, 2009

Professional experience

University of Toronto, ON, Canada, 2009-2010
Zewail City of Science and Technology, Cairo, Egypt, 2015-2018
Assiut University, Egypt, 2010-2018

Memberships

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Contact

mabdelgawad@aus.edu
+971 6 515 2965

Dr. Mohamed Abdelgawad

Associate Professor
PhD in Mechanical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Prior to joining AUS, Dr. Abdelgawad worked as an associate professor with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Assiut University, Egypt. He established the first microfluidics lab in Egypt and built strong collaborations with colleagues from the faculties of medicine, pharmacy and veterinary medicine in the fields of medical diagnostics, nanoparticle synthesis and computer-assisted sperm analysis. Prior to that, Dr. Abdelgawad worked as a post-doctoral fellow with the Department of Surgical Oncology at University of Toronto, Canada, where he was part of a team developing a lab-on-a-chip device to diagnose bladder cancer based on measuring mechanical stiffness of bladder cells exfoliated in urine. 

Dr. Mohamed Abdelgawad's Research Page

Publications

T. M. Elsherry, M. Elsayed, H.K. Abdelhafez, and M. Abdelgawad, Characterization of Rheotaxis of Bull Sperm Using Microfluidics, Integrative Biology, vol. 6, n. 12, pp. 1111-1121, 2014.
D.G. Pyne, J. Liu, M. Abdelgawad, and Y. Sun, Digital microfluidic processing of mammalian embryos for vitrification, PLoS ONE, vol. 9, n. 9, pp. e108128, 2014.
Hassan A, Ali, Hany A. Mohamed, and M. Abdelgawad, Repulsion-Based Model for Contact Angle Saturation in Electrowetting, Biomicrofluidics,vol. 9, pp. 014115, 2015
M. Elsayed, T. M. Elsherry, and M. Abdelgawad, Development of Computer Assisted Sperm Analysis (CASA) Plugin for analyzing sperm motion in microfluidic environments using Image-J, Theriogenology, vol. 84, n. 8, pp. 1367-1377, 2015.
T. M. El-sherry, M. A. Abdel-Ghani, N. S. Abou-Khalil, M. Elsayed, and M. Abdelgawad, Effect of pH on Rheotaxis of Bull Sperm Using Microfluidics, Reproduction in Domestic Animals, vol. 52, n. 5, pp. 781-790, 2017.

Conference Presentations

M. B. Effat, M. S. Abdelkareem, O. Hassan, and M. Abdelgawad, Numerical investigations of the effect of flow arrangement and number of layers on the performance of multi-layer microchannel heat sinks, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exposition, Houston Texas, 13-19 Nov. 2015.
W. M. Salman, H. A. Ali, M. S. Abdelsalam, M. F. F. Eldosoky, and M. Abdelgawad, Interfacial electrical shear stresses induce electrohydrodynamic flows inside droplets actuated by electrowetting, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exposition, Houston Texas, 13-19 Nov. 2015.
Alsaeed Abualsayed, Khaled Shabaan, Ali AboEl-Lail, and Mohamed Abdelgawad, A 50$ complete digital microfluidics device and actuation setup, the 20th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (microTAS 2016), Dublin, Ireland , 9-13 October, 2016.
Saif Al-Mofty, Nagwa El-Badri, Ahmad Altayyeb, Omnia Omar, Mohamed Elsayed, Ahmed Wahbi, Hassan Ali, Mohamed Abdelgawad, and Noha Mousa, One stop lab on chip platform for tissue processing and cell sample preparation, the 20th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (microTAS 2016), Dublin, Ireland , 9-13 October, 2016.
A.M. Esmaeel, A.B. Sharkawy, T. ElMelegy and M. Abdelgawad, Real-time open source machine vision software for closed loop control of flow in microfluidics devices, The 20th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (microTAS 2016), Dublin, Ireland , 9-13 October, 2016.
Ahmad Altayyeb, Maha Khashbah, Abdelhady Esmaeel, Mohamed El-Mokhtar, Abdelbadei Sharkawy, Mohamed Abdelgawad, and Essam Othman, Mechanical Characterization Of Endometrial Cells as a Non-Surgical Diagnostic Test For Endometriosis, The 21st International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (microTAS 2017), Savannah, Georgia, USA, 22-26 October, 2017.

Awards and Honors

NSERC post doctoral fellowship ,Canada, 2009
Misr Elkheir Publication award, Egypt, 2012
State Award for Early Career Researchers, Egypt, 2017
Fulbright visiting Scholar grant- (declined) - May 2018

Other creative/research

M. W. L. Watson, M. Abdelgawad, Mais Jebrail, Hao Yang, and A. R. Wheeler, Hybrid Digital and Channel Microfluidic Devices and Methods of Use Thereof, United States Patent # US9,039,973B2.
N. Mousa, M. J. Jebrail, M. Abdelgawad, R. F. Casper, and A. R. Wheeler, Method of Hormone Extraction Using Digital Microfluidics, United States patent # US 8,202,736 B2.
A. R. Wheeler, I. Barbulovic-Nad, H. Yang, and M. Abdelgawad, Exchangeable Sheets Pre-Loaded with Reagent Depots for Digital Microfluidics, United States patent # US8,187,864B2.

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