Applied Microbiology

Ali Khamesipour, PhD is a Professor in Center for Research and Training in Skin Diseases and Leprosy, TUMS, Tehran, Iran. He is a Chair, Iranian National

Leishmaniasis Network and was a Visiting Professorin the Department of Community Medicine, the Federal University of Piauí, Brazil, 2018 to April. He

completed his Post-doc 8/1992 - 8/1993, UCI, Irvine, College of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Irvine, USA and PhD in Department of Medical Microbiology

and Immunology, School of Medicine, SIU, USA 1992. He published about 183 papers in reputed journals. His research interest is Search for surrogate marker(s)

of cure and protection in leishmaniasis and vaccine development.