In 2009, Dr. El-Shamy received a PhD in Molecular Virology from Kobe University, Japan. His PhD study was selected as the Medical School Excellent Paper for the 2008-2009 Academic Year. In 2011, Dr. El-Shamy joined Division of Liver Diseases at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York as a senior post-doctoral fellow. Dr. El-Shamy received 2014 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Award; and 2013 Encouragement State Prize in Medical Sciences from the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, Egypt. Dr. El-Shamy published 26 publications in high impact peer-viewed journal (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Ahmed+El-Shamy). Dr. El-Shamy is the lead author in 10 publications; three of them have been published in the highest journals of liver field (two in Hepatology and one in Journal of Hepatology).