About
Dr. Shoaib Ashraf is a trained medical laboratory technologist and veterinarian-scientist with over 20 years of research experience in both veterinary and human health, with a focus on diagnostics & treatment (theranostics). He earned his BSc (MLT) from Punjab University, followed by a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) and MPhil in Pharmacology & Toxicology from the University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (UVAS), Pakistan. He then pursued an MS in Molecular Biology at the University of Skövde/Stockholm University in Sweden, followed by a PhD in Pharmacology/Parasitology from the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at McGill University in Canada.
Dr. Ashraf completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at McGill University, focusing on drug resistance against infectious diseases. He subsequently spent five years as a research fellow at the Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, where he investigated Antimicrobial Photodynamic Therapy. Upon returning to Canada, he served as a lecturer in the Applied Biotechnology program at McGill University and later worked as a Research Associate in infectious diseases at the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary. Dr. Ashraf’s overarching research goal is to combat infectious diseases (bacterial, parasitic, fungal and viral) through novel approaches.
Dr. Ashraf is currently an Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences at Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Pathobiology Riphah International University.
Publications
- Ashraf, S†., Kamaliddin, C†., Burke-Gaffney, J†., Castañeda-Mogollón, D., Adamu, A., Wijesinghe, A., Pussegoda, E., Feleke, S.M. and Pillai, D.R., 2024. A countrywide survey of hrp2/3 deletions and kelch13 mutation co-occurrence in Ethiopia. The Journal of Infectious Diseases, p.jiae373. †Joint first author
- Tonon, C. C., de Souza Rastelli, A. N., Bodahandi, C., Ashraf, S., Hasan, T., Xu, Q., Greer, A., & Lyons, A. M. (2024). Effect of Treatment Frequency on the Efficacy of Superhydrophobic Antimicrobial Photodynamic Therapy of Periodontitis in a Wistar Rat Model. Photochemistry and Photobiology (2024).
- Ashraf S, Khalid A, Devos A, Feng Y, Rohrbach P, Hasan T (2022) Malaria Detection Accelerated: Combing a High-throughput Nano Zoomer Platform with a Parasite Macro Algorithm. Pathogens. 2022; 11(10):1182. https://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens11101182
- Ashraf, S†., Bilal, M†., and Zhao, X†., (2022) Dietary Component-Induced Inflammation and Its Amelioration by Prebiotics, Probiotics, and Synbiotics. Frontiers in Nutrition, p.1504. †Joint first author
- Ashraf, S.; Naushad, S.; Si, W.; Bilal, M.; Ijaz, M.; Huang, H.; Zhao, X (2022). Draft Genome Sequences and Antimicrobial Resistance Genes of Five Staphylococcus aureus Strains Isolated from Bovine Milk. Microbiology Resource Announcements https://doi:10.1128/mra.00756-22.
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