NASSIRA BELMESSABIH

Ms
NASSIRA
BELMESSABIH

Research-associate
Pasteur Institute of Algeria
Biography

I have obtained engineering diploma in Biotechnology that was followed by a master degree in Population
and Microorganism Biology in Algeria universities. In 2016, I relocated to France and successfully obtained
a master degree in Bio-Health Computing from the University of Grenoble Alps (UGA), France. During this
master I had the opportunity to follow high teaching levels including all the practical and theoretical
knowledge in biotechnology, veterinary and medical fields. I had also the opportunity to be part of the
intensive summer program at the European Scientific Institute (ESI) which enhances my creative thinking
in computational medicine for human rare diseases. After that, I resumed my work at the Pasteur Institute
of Algeria (IPA), for which I have been working since 2012, 6 years experience at the laboratory of
production and development of Capripoxvirus vaccine where I have been learning all the techniques of the
live attenuated Capripoxvirus vaccine production process, I worked with an interdisciplinary teamwork in a
collaboration project between the PaVal laboratory, UGA and the IPA which aimed to create a new cellular
support to produce the vaccine by immortalizing the fetus lamb kidney cells, ethically to limit the use of
animals, improve the quality by using safe tools and to enhance the efficacy of this vaccine to better
protect the sheep herds in Algeria for a best sheep meat production. I have been working also as a
coordinator of quality control, leading the laboratory teamwork for the establishment of an internal quality
manual, this mission raised up my sense of responsibility and my organizational work skills.
 

Research interests

virology, immunology and cancer.

Vaccines for cancer (oncoolytic viruses)

Immunotherapy