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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

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

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) Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)

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

Sofela, S., S. Sahloul, C. Stubbs, A. Orozaliev, F.S. Refai, A.M. Esmaeel, H. Fahs, M. Abdelgawad, K. Gunsalus, and Y.-A. Song, Phenotyping of Thrashing Forces Exerted by Partially Immobilized C. elegans using Elastomeric Micropillar Arrays, Lab on a Chip, DOI: 10.1039/C9LC00660E, 2019.
A. Abualsayed, S. Abouelmagd, and M. Abdelgawad, Miniaturized Preparation of Polymeric Nanoparticles Using Droplet Manipulation on Open Surfaces, Micro and Nano Letters, DOI:10.1049/mnl.2019.0421, 2019.
A. Altayyeb, Y. Sun, and M. Abdelgawad, Effect of Joule heating and temperature-dependent zeta potential on Electroosmotic flow measurements in calorimetric flow sensors, accepted in Micro and Nano Letters, vol. 14, n. 9, pp. 1007-1012, 2019.
A. Altayyeb, E. Othman, M. Khashbah, A. Esmaeel, M.El-Mokhtar, C. Lambalk, V. Mijatovic, and M. Abdelgawad, Characterization of Mechanical Signature of Eutopic Endometrial Stromal Cells of Endometriosis Patients, accepted in Reproductive Sciences, Manuscript ID RSCI-18-827R1.
A. M. Esmaeel, T. El-Melegy, and M. Abdelgawad, Multi-Purpose Machine Vision Platform for Different Microfluidics Applications, Biomedical Microdevices, vol. 21, n. 3, pp. 68-80, 2019.
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

Ahmad Altayyeb, Essam Othman, Maha Khashbah, Abdelhay Esmaeel, Mohamed El-Mokhtar, Cornelis Lambalk, Velja Mijatovic, and Mohamed Abdelgawad, Performance of using deformability of endometrial cells as a diagnostic test for endometriosis, accepted in The 23rd International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (?TAS 2019), Basel, Switzerland, 27-31 October, 2019.
Alsaeed Abualsayed and M. Abdelgawad, Effect of Waveform of the Actuation Signal on Droplet Speed in Digital Microfluidic Devices, The 14th IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineering and Molecular Systems, Bangkok, Thailand, 11-14 April, 2019.
Ahmed Darwish and M. Abdelgawad, Numerical simulation of photothermally induced Marangoni flow around a microbubble, The 14th IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineering and Molecular Systems, Bangkok, Thailand, 11-14 April, 2019.
Mahmoud Abdelkarim, Noura H. Abd Ellah, Mahmoud Elsabahy, Sara A. Abouelmagd, and Mohamed Abdelgawad, Optimization of Preparation of Polymeric Nanoparticles using Microfluidics, The 22nd International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (?TAS 2018), Kaohsiung, Taiwan 11-15 November, 2018.
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, accepted in The 21st International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (microTAS 2017), to be held in Savannah, Georgia, USA, 22-26 October, 2017.
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

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

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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