Research Interests

• Host-pathogen interactions
• Disease susceptibility and resistance mechanisms of fish
• Pathogen virulence
• Nano research

Fields of activity

• Fish health
• Parasitology
• Proteomics
• Transcriptomics

Saleh M, Hummel K, Schlosser S, Razzazi-Fazeli E, Bartholomew JL, Holzer A, Secombes CJ and El-Matbouli M (2024): The myxozoans Myxobolus cerebralis and Tetracapsuloides bryosalmonae modulate rainbow trout immune responses: quantitative shotgun proteomics at the portals of entry after single and co-infections. Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol. 14:1369615. DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2024.1369615.

Gutási A, Hammer SE, El-Matbouli M, Saleh M (2023): Review: Recent Applications of Gene Editing in Fish Species and Aquatic Medicine. Animals (Basel). 2023; 13(7):1250. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani13071250.

Essawy E, Abdelfattah MS, El-Matbouli M, Saleh M (2021): Synergistic Effect of Biosynthesized Silver Nanoparticles and Natural Phenolic Compounds against Drug-Resistant Fish Pathogens and Their Cytotoxicity: An In Vitro Study. Marine Drugs. 19, 22.

Saleh M, Friedl A, Srivastava M, Soliman, H, Secombes CJ, El-Matbouli M (2020): STAT3/SOCS3 axis contributes to the outcome of salmonid whirling disease. PLoS ONE 15(6): e0234479. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.0234479

Saleh M, Montero R, Kumar G, Sudhagar A, Friedl A, Köllner B, El-Matbouli M (2019): Kinetics of local and systemic immune cell responses in whirling disease infection and resistance in rainbow trout. Parasit Vectors. 12: 249. DOI: 10.1186/s13071-019-3505-9.

Ahmed F, Soliman FM, Adly MA, Soliman HAM, El-Matbouli M, Saleh M (2019): Recent progress in biomedical applications of chitosan and its nanocomposites in aquaculture: A review. Res Vet Sci. 2019; 126: 68-82. doi.org/10.1016/j.rvsc.2019.08.005.

Majeed M, Soliman H, Kumar G, El-Matbouli M, Saleh M (2018): Editing the genome of Aphanomyces invadans using CRISPR/Cas9. Parasit Vectors.11: 554. DOI: 10.1186/s13071-018-3134-8.

2006-2009 Research Fellow at the Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany

2009 Dr. rer.biol.vet. degree in Fish Diseases and Fisheries Biolog at the Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany

2010-2016 Scientific Assistant, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria

2016-2019 Post Doc at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria 

21.10.2021 Habilitation in Fish Health at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria

2019-2024 Principal investigator at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna

Since 2024 University Assistant at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna

“The role of suppressors of cytokine signaling (SOCS) Proteins in whirling disease pathogenesis”
funded by “The Austrian Science Fund, FWF project Grant-DOI 10.55776/P29294; PI: M. El-Matbouli

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Funded research projects

“How myxozoa determines the outcome of co-infection in fish” funded by “The Austrian Science Fund, FWF project Grant-DOI 10.55776/P32340; 402.906,00 €; PI: M. Saleh

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