Prof. Amin Karmali

Brief Biography:

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Name : Amin Karmali
Institutional address: Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Research Center and Department of Chemical Engineering, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Rua Conselheiro Emídio Navarro,1950-062 Lisboa, Portugal.
Academic degrees:
* Full Professor (Habilitation/Aggregation), Enzyme Technology, Évora University, Portugal, 2001
* Post-Doc. Biochemistry (Immunochemistry) Gulbenkian Institute of Science, Portugal, 1985
* Ph. D. Biochemistry (Enzymology), King´s College London, 1983
* Bsc. (with Honours) in Biology and Chemistry – Polytechnic of North London- 1980.

Academic positions:

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Present position , institution, starting date

Full Professor with Habilitation/Aggregation , Department of Chemical Engineering, Instituto

Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa (ISEL), Portugal (2001- )

President of Biotechnology Research Center of Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa

(ISEL) funded by Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) (2002 - ). where I

was responsible for setting up laboratories of Microbiology, Biochemistry, Immunochemistry

(hybridoma technology) and molecular biology in ISEL.

President of Scientific board of Chemical Engineering at Instituto Superior de Engenharia de

Lisboa (2004-2008).

Principal Investigator of several research projects funded by Portuguese Foundation for Science

and Technology (FCT), King´s College London, INETI and Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa (1985-).

Visiting Professor at Évora University lecturing Enzyme Technology (2002- 2005).

President of Departmental area of Chemical Engineering at Instituto Superior de Engenharia de

Lisboa (March 2010 – July 2010).

Previous positions, institutions, dates

Scientific consultant of Pharmaceutical companies in the area of diagnostic kits, drugs, vaccines,

etc.

Visiting Scientist at Ministry of Health of S. Tomé e Principe regarding the use of medicinal plants

for human diseases (March 2010).

Visiting Scientist at University Lurio of Mozambique regarding the use of medicinal plants for

human diseases (March 2011).

Visiting Scientist in the Department of Biophysics and Molecular Biology of King´s College

London, U.K. (1992, 1995, 1998).

Scientific Consultant of JNICT (Portugal) and INETI (Portugal) (1990-1998).

Full Professor in Biochemistry, Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Department of Chemical

Engineering, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, 1990-2001.

Assistant Professor in Biochemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Instituto

Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, 1985-1990.

Senior Scientist and Project Director in Industrial Enzymology and Hybridoma Technology at

Instituto Nacional de Engenharia e Tecnologia industrial (LNETI) where I was responsible for

setting up laboratories of Microbiology, Biochemistry, Immunochemistry (hybridoma technology)

and molecular biology 1985-1990.

Scientific consultant of biotechnology companies (1985 - )

Post-Doc at Gulbenkian Institute of Science, Biochemistry (Immunochemistry) 1983-1985.

Research interests:

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Main scientific area of research

Microbial enzyme and monoclonal antibody technology. (biochemistry, microbiology,

immunochemistry and molecular genetics). Diagnostic kits for biochemistry, microbiology,

virology, immunochemistry and molecular biology.

Other scientific areas of interest

Use of medicinal mushrooms for treatment of human carcinoma, AIDS, hepatitis B, chronic

fatigue syndrome etc .

What I think of the idea behind WebmedCentral:

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I think that this idea of Plus is novel and many researchers will submit their work for publication in plus.

Home Page:

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http://www.deq.isel.ipl.pt/cieqb/