Meet the editors

Dr. Shymaa Enany is an Associate Professor of Microbiology, at Suez Canal University, Egypt, and is currently working at Armed Forces College of Medicine, Egypt. She received her Ph.D. from the School of Medical Sciences, Niigata University, Japan. She completed her post-doctoral studies in the United States and Japan. Dr. Enany was one of the first Arab scientists to apply bacterial proteomic techniques to reveal good markers for mi-

crobes spreading in the community. She has received many awards for her scientific contributions, including the 2021 International Science Council Award for Early Career Scientist in Africa, the 2019 Egyptian state encouragement prize for women in the field of health and pharmaceutical sciences, and the 2018 World Academy of Sciences Young Arab Scientist Prize in Medical Sciences.

Dr. Jorge A. Masso-Silva is interested in immunology and how our immune system protects us from pathogens. He obtained his master's degree in Biotechnology from Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas del Noroeste, Mexico in 2007. He obtained his Ph.D. in Biomedical Science from Rutgers University, USA, in 2012 with research on innate and adaptive immune responses. Dr. Masso-Silva worked for the Federal Government in Mexico

and is a member of the National System of Investigators in Mexico. Currently, he is a postdoc in the Division of Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep, Section Chief of Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine, University of California at San Diego, USA.

Dr. Anna Savitskaya, Ph.D., is a senior researcher at the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow. Her research interests include microbiology, molecular genetics, the use of microorganisms as producers of target proteins, and analysis of intracellular protein interaction. She obtained a Ph.D. from Niigata University in 2012. Since 2008, she has been enrolled in a Ph.D. course at the Department of Chemical Technol-

ogies of Wood and Biotechnology, Siberian State University of Science and Technology. In the same year, she began working as a junior researcher at the biotechnology laboratory of the Krasnoyarsk Agriculture Research Institute. In 2011, Dr. Savitskaya completed an internship at the University of Ottawa, Canada.
