Hadia M. Abdelaal

A highly skilled, innovative, and detail-oriented biomedical immunologist with extensive expertise in CD8 T cell immunology, immunotherapy, viral pathogenesis, and host-pathogen interaction. Recipient of several highly selective scholarships, fellowships, and travel awards. Demonstrated ability to communicate scientific information by presentations at scientific conferences and multiple peer-reviewed publications. Three years of immunology teaching experience at University of Minnesota. Committed to utilizing immunology expertise to help cure cancer and infectious diseases.

• American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy (ASGCT) underrepresented Minority Travel Award ($500) 2020
• BELIEVE (Bench to Bed Enhanced Lymphocyte Infusions to Engineer Viral Eradication) travel scholarship to attend the 2019 HIV Persistence During Therapy Meeting in Miami, Florida ($2000) 2019
• Honorable mention poster award, Research pride day, college of veterinary medicine, University of Minnesota 2019
• Travel award and registration scholarship from the Cell and Gene Therapy for HIVCure conference ($500) 2019
• Nominee for the 2017-2018 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (DDF) candidate by the Veterinary Medicine Graduate Program. DDF is the highest recognition that the University of Minnesota bestows on Ph.D. student gives the University's most accomplished PhD candidates an opportunity to devote full-time effort to an outstanding research project by providing time to finalize and write a dissertation during the fellowship year. 2017
• Veterinary Medicine graduate program (VMED, UMN, USA) travel award ($500) 2017
• A full Scholarship to attend the 9th IAS Conference on HIV Science, France (IAS 2017) “ I was one of the top 4.2% of more than 2500 applicants from 145 countries that were selected to receive a scholarship from the IAS 2017 Conference on HIV Science Paris, France” ($4000). 2017
• American Society of Virology “ASV” graduate student travel award ($500) 2017
• American Association of Immunologist “AAI” Trainee Abstract Award ($500) 2017
• Complimentary registration to International Conference on One Medicine One Science (iCOMOs), Commons Hotel, Minnesota, Minnesota, USA ($175) 2016
• Travel award and registration scholarship from the Cell and Gene Therapy for HIV Cure conference ($450) 2016.
• American Association of University Women (AAUW) International Doctoral Degree Fellowship ($20,000) 2016-2017
• Honorable mention poster award, Research pride day, college of veterinary medicine, University of Minnesota 2014
• Egyptian Cultural & Educational Bureau PhD Scholarship Award ($200,000) 2013-2016

Newman RA, Chase CCL, Matos JR, Abdelsalam K, Buterbaugh R, Van Holland S, Abdelaal H, Woolum A, Jagannadha Sastry K. Efficacy of oleandrin and PBI-05204 against bovine viruses of importance to commercial cattle health. Antivir Chem Chemother. 2022 Jan-Dec;30:20402066221103960. doi: 10.1177/20402066221103960. PMID: 35611441; PMCID: PMC9136442.

Pampusch MS*, Abdelaal HM*, Cartwright EK, Molden JS, Davey BC, Sauve JD, et al. (2022) CAR/CXCR5-T cell immunotherapy is safe and potentially efficacious in promoting sustained remission of SIV infection. PLoS Pathog 18(2): e1009831. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1009831. *First co-author, equally contributed.

Pomplun, N. L., Vosler, L., Weisgrau, K. L., Furlott, J., Weiler, A. M., Abdelaal, H. M., Evans, D. T., Watkins, D. I., Matano, T., Skinner, P. J., Friedrich, T. C., & Rakasz, E. G. (2020). Immunophenotyping of Rhesus T‐Cell Populations. Cytometry Part A, cyto.a.24197. Immunophenotyping of Rhesus CMV-Specific CD8 T-Cell Populations - PubMed (nih.gov)

Abdelaal, H. M.; Cartwright, E. K.; Skinner, P. J. Detection of AntigenSpecific T Cells Using In Situ MHC Tetramer Staining. Int. J. Mol. Sci., 2019, 20 (20)

Abdelaal HM, Kim HO, Wagstaff R, Sawahata R, Southern PJ, Skinner PJ. Comparison of Vibratome and Compresstome sectioning of fresh primate lymphoid and genital tissues for in situ MHC-tetramer and immunofluorescence staining. Biol Proced Online. 2015 Jan 7; 17(1):2.

Connick E, Folkvord JM, Lind KT, Rakasz EG, Miles B, Wilson NA, Santiago ML, Schmitt K, Stephens EB, Kim HO, Wagstaff R, Li S, Abdelaal HM, Kemp N, Watkins DI, MaWhinney S, Skinner PJ. Compartmentalization of simian immunodeficiency virus replication within secondary lymphoid tissues of rhesus macaques is linked to disease stage and inversely related to localization of virus-specific CTL. J Immunol. 2014 Dec 1; 193 (11):5613-25.

Li S, Folkvord JM, Rakaszc EJ, Abdelaal HM, Wagstaffa RK, Kovacsa KJ, Kima HO, Sawahataa R, MaWhinneye S, Masopust D, Connick E, and Skinnera PJ. SIV- producing cells in follicles are partially suppressed by CD8+ cells in vivo. J Virol. 2016 Nov 28;90(24):11168-11180.

Geetha H. Mylvaganam, Daniel Rios, Abdelaal HM, Smita Iyer, Gregory Tharp, Maud Mavigner, Sakeenah Hicks, Ann Chahroudi, Rafi Ahmed, Steven Bosinger, IR Williams, Pamela J. Skinner, Vijayakumar Velu, and Rama Rao Amara. Dynamics of SIV Specific CXCR5+ CD8 T cells During Chronic SIV Infection. PNAS. 2017 Feb 21; 114(8): 1976-1981.

Hadia M Abdelaal, Mary S Pampusch, Edward A Berger and Pamela J Skinner. In Situ Analysis of Follicular Targeting Antiviral CD4-MBL CAR/CXCR5 T Cells in SIV Infected Rhesus Macaques. American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy (ASGCT) 23rd annual meeting, Virtual format, USA, May 2020

Hadia M Abdelaal, Mary S Pampusch, Edward A Berger and Pamela J Skinner. Location, abundance and persistence of CAR/CXCR5 transduced T cells within lymphoid tissues of SIV-infected rhesus macaques. HIV persistence during therapy 2019, Miami, Florida, USA, December 2019.

Hadia M Abdelaal, Mary S Pampusch, Edward A Berger and Pamela J Skinner. Location, abundance and persistence of CAR/CXCR5 transduced T cells within lymphoid tissues of SIV-infected rhesus macaques. The Cell and Gene Therapy for HIV Cure conference 2019, Seattle, Washington, USA, August 2019.

Hadia M Abdelaal, Shengbin Li, Ryoko Sawahata, Gwantwa Mwakalundwa, Kathryn Fraser, Geetha Mylvaganam, Mauricio Martins, David Masopust, Rama Rao Amara, David Watkins, Elizabeth Connick and Pamela J Skinner. CTL-based vaccine-induced control is associated with induction of high follicular to extra-follicular ratios of virus-specific CD8+ T cells. The American Association of Immunologist, Washington convention center, Washington Dc, USA, May 2017.

Abdelaal HM, Li S, Sawahata R, Fraser KA, Geetha H. GH, Martins MA, Folkvord J, Masopust D, Amara RR, Watkins DI, Connick L and Skinner PJ. CTL-based vaccine-induced control is associated with induction of high follicular to extra-follicular ratios of virus-specific CD8 T cells. Keystone Symposium, California, USA, March 2016.

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Pamela J Skinner, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota. Phone 612-624-2644. E-mail: Skinn002@umn.edu.

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