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Professor Abdelmalik I. Khalafalla obtained his PhD from the University of Khartoum, Sudan in 1997, and received post-doctoral training as a veterinary virologist at the Federal Research Center for Virus Diseases of Animals in Tuebingen, Germany, April 2001-January 2003. He is currently a full Professor at King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia, where he is currently leading a research team that investigate viruses of camels, including MERS-CoV. He published over 70 research articles, reviews and book chapters. He was the head of the Microbiology Department, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Khartoum in 2004 and the Director of the Camel Research Center in 2007. He served as the president of the International Society for Camelid Research and Development (ISOCARD) from 2012 to 2015.