Mohamed Fathi Abdallah

➤ Funds

  • (2026-2031) Novo Nordisk Foundation - ECRUIT Grant for International Recruitment 2025 (Assistant Prof level) for the project "ToxiFOOD". Role: Principal Investigator. Total budeget: DKK 13.88 Million (= € 1.86 Million).
  • (2024) UMONS Research Institute for Health Sciences and Technology (Action Kangaroo) for the project "Optimizing a one-plate method for a high throughput toxicity Screening". Role: Principal Researcher. Total budeget: €5,000.
  • (2023-2026) Postdoctoral Fellowship, F.R.S-FNRS mandate, Belgium. Host institute: University of Mons, Belgium. Total budeget: €215,000.
  • (2020-2023) Postdoctoral Fellowship-Special Research Fund Ghent University, Belgium. Research grant number BOF20/PDO/032. Total budeget: €205,000.
  • (2021) VLIRUOS Global Minds Grant from Ghent University for the project "AF-CYSTIN-milk" to assess the incidence of aflatoxin M1 and microcystin-LR in water buffalo milk from Philippines and their potential in vitro toxic interaction. Role: Principal Researcher. Total budeget: €12,000.
  • (2018) VLIRUOS Global Minds Grant from Ghent University for the side project "MYCOSUGAR" to enrich our knowledge on mycotoxin occurrence in sugarcane as an important cash crop in Africa. Role: Principal Researcher. Total budeget: €12,000.

➤ Scientific Awards

  • (2022) Best Oral Presentation from Toxins journal at the international conferencen Power of Fungi and Mycotoxins in Climate Change Symposium, Croatia.
  • (2019) The Young Scientist Award during the EURACHEM 2019 meeting held in Tartu, Estonia.
  • (2018) Best Poster Award from Toxins journal at the 2nd African Symposium on Mycotoxicology, Kenya.

➤ Fellowships

  • (12/2024) TÜBİTAK 2221-Fellowships for Visiting Scientists (short term). Host institute: Istanbul University, Türkiye.
  • (2023-2026) Postdoctoral Fellowship, F.R.S-FNRS mandate, Belgium. Host institute: University of Mons, Belgium.
  • (2020-2023) Postdoctoral Fellowship-Special Research Fund Ghent University, Belgium. Research grant number BOF20/PDO/032.
  • (2020) Marie Curie Research Leaders 2025 - A Fellowship Programme developing the Next Generation of Agri-Food Research Leaders, Austria/Ireland (granted, but untaken/excused).
  • (2016-2020) PhD Research Fellowship in the framework of Mycokey project, Ghent University, Belgium.
  • (2015-2016) Erasmus+ Student Mobility for Studies, Center for Analytical Chemistry, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien, Austria.
  • (2014) Erasmus+ Student Mobility for Placement, IfADo Institute, Dortmund, Germany.
  • (2013-2016) Turkish Government Scholarship, Türkiye.

➤ Travel Grants

  • (2023) National Demonstration Base for Talent Introduction Grant (17,000 RMB) to visit the nstitute of Food Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China.
  • (2023) Conference Travel Award (€500) Faculty of Bioscience Engineering-UGent to attend 44th Mycotoxin-Workshop, Celle (at Hannover)-Germany.
  • (2022) Workshop Travel Award from the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) to attend the Applied In Vitro Toxicology Course, Luxembourg.
  • (2022) Conference Travel Award (€500) Faculty of Bioscience Engineering-UGent to attend XVIth International Congress of Toxicology (ICT 2022), Maastricht-the Netherlands.
  • (2018) Conference Travel Award (€1,000) Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences-UGent to attend the 2nd International MycoKey Conference, Wuhan-China.
  • (2017) Conference Travel Award (€750) Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences-UGent to attend the 3rd International Mass Spectrometry School, Dubrovnik-Croatia.

➤ Memberships

  • (Since 2025) Post-doctoral Representative of the SOT’s Food Safety Specialty Section (FS3).
  • (Since 2024) Board member European Society of Toxicology In Vitro (ESTIV).
  • (Since 2023) Member of ILSI Europe’s Natural Toxins’ Expert Group.
  • (Since 2023) Full member Society for Mycotoxin Research.
  • (Since 2021) Full member European Society of Toxicology In Vitro (ESTIV).
  • (Since 2021) Full member Belgian society of Toxicology (BelTox).
  • (Since 2020) Ordinary member International Society of Mycotoxicology (ISM).

➤ Collaboration

    (Based on running projects and research papers)
    Europe
  • University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria.
  • University of Vienna, Austria.
  • Ghent University, Belgium.
  • University of Parma, Italy.
  • Sciensano Institute, Tervuren, Belgium.
    • Asia
  • Institute of Food Science and Technology, Beijing, PR China.
  • University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, PR China.
  • Institute for Agri-Food Standards and Testing Technology, Shanghai, PR China.
  • Istanbul University, Istanbul, Türkiye.
    • Africa
  • American University in Cairo (AUC), Egypt.