عضو هيئة تدريسية فادي فؤاد السمّاك

2019–current: Lead auditor ISO 9001:2015, Quality Assurance Division, College of Medicine, Al-Nahrain University,

2017–2022: Laboratories Accreditation Unit (LAU) director

2015–current: Lecturer at College of Medicine, Al-Nahrain University, Baghdad, Iraq

2015–current: Otto-von-Guericke Magdeburg University (OvGU) alumnus

2010–current: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) alumnus

2005–2015: Assistant lecturer at College of Medicine, Al-Nahrain University, Baghdad, Iraq

1999–2001: Medical practitioner in Baghdad, Iraq

Ph.D. in Natural Sciences (magna cum laude), Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany (2010–2015). Dissertation: “The Characterization of Mucosal Immune Response in Healthy Volunteers Vaccinated against Helicobacter pylori-derived Antigens and Challenged with a CagA+ Strain”

M.Sc. in Medical Microbiology (GPA 88.1%), College of Medicine, Al-Nahrain University, Baghdad, Iraq (2001–2004). Thesis: “Colorectal Carcinoma: A Seroprevalence of Helicobacter pylori CagA in Association with Immunohistochemical Staining of c-Myc and MUC-2”

MBChB in Medicine & General Surgery (GPA 75.8%), College of Medicine, Al-Nahrain University, Baghdad, Iraq (1993–1999)


Technical Experience:

Bacteriological techniques
Immunohistochemistry (IHC) and Immunofluorescence (IF)
Validation of ELISA by performing (spike-and-recovery) and (linearity-of-dilution) assays
Planning and analysis of Bio-Plex assay
Cell culture techniques and propagation of human cell lines
DNA, RNA & protein extraction from endoscopic gastric biopsies
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) in compliance with MIQE guidelines
SDS-PAGE and western blotting (WB)
Protein immunoprecipitation and purification (IP)

Medical bacteriology for 3rd year medical students

Medical Bacteriology for postgraduate MSc & PhD candidates (lab instructor)

Role of Helicobacter pylori in human and the interaction between them

Mucosal immunity in human

Data mining and machine learning using an advanced statistical platform

Al-Sammak, Fadi, Thomas Kalinski, et al. Gastric epithelial expression of IL-12 cytokine family in Helicobacter pylori infection in human: is it head or tail of the coin?" In: PLoS ONE 8.9 (2013), e75192.

Al-Sammak, Fadi and A. S. Abdulamir. Association of Helicobacter pylori with colorectal cancer development". In: Asian Biomed 4.4 (2011), p. 609. issn: 1905-7415.