Dr
Mohammad Bashir
Aliyu
I am a veterinarian and lecturer at the Department of Veterinary public health and preventive medicine, faculty of veterinary medicine, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria. As an early career researcher, I am interested in epidemiology, virology, zoonoses, and vaccinology. I obtained my D.V.M. in 2010 and have been practicing as a field veterinarian in the poultry industry at the hatcheries and farm level in Northern Nigeria and some parts of the Niger Republic. My exposure to the poultry industry made me very interested in vaccines and vaccinology.
I am interested in achieving vaccine stability through the combination with certain natural adjuvants and also through the use of nanotechnology. This part of the world has challenges in maintaining cold-chain, hence my interest in research that will stabilize these vaccines and help reduce cases of vaccine break and failure. My focus is also on small ruminants and poultry pathogenic viruses.
I am currently working on the anti-viral effect of bee venom on the PPR virus and the possibility of bee envenomation of the vaccine to achieve some level of stability.