Moustapha Kassem
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Moustapha Kassem, MD
Doctor of Medicine
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, PhD
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, (born 1959) is a scientist, physician
Physician
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 and endocrinologist based in Denmark
Denmark
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. He received his medical degree from Kasr-el-Aini Medical School, Cairo University
Cairo University
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, Egypt (1985) and received his post-graduate training in internal medicine
Internal medicine
Internal medicine is the medical specialty dealing with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of adult diseases. Physicians specializing in internal medicine are called internists. They are especially skilled in the management of patients who have undifferentiated or multi-system disease processes...

 and endocrinology
Endocrinology
Endocrinology is a branch of biology and medicine dealing with the endocrine system, its diseases, and its specific secretions called hormones, the integration of developmental events such as proliferation, growth, and differentiation and the coordination of...

 in Denmark and USA. He obtained his PhD degree (1994) and DSc
DSC
-in academia:* D.Sc., Doctor of Science* Doctor of Surgical Chiropody, superseded in the 1960s by Doctor of Podiatric Medicine* Dalton State College, Georgia* Daytona State College, Florida* Deep Springs College, California* Dixie State College of Utah...

  degrees (1998) from Aarhus University, Denmark.

He had a post-doctoral fellowship at the Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic
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, Rochester, MN, USA where he worked with professor B. L. Riggs. Moustapha Kassem's research focus is mechanisms of bone formation  and stem cell
Stem cell
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  differentiation into skeletal tissues. He combines methodologies of clinical medicine with state-of-the-art technologies of cell and molecular biology. Moustapha Kassem has developed normal and immortalized cell lines for studying human skeletal (mesenchymal
Mesenchyme
Mesenchyme, or mesenchymal connective tissue, is a type of undifferentiated loose connective tissue that is derived mostly from mesoderm, although some are derived from other germ layers; e.g. some mesenchyme is derived from neural crest cells and thus originates from the ectoderm...

) stem cells and their differentiation potential. Moustapha Kassem has also studied aging of bone cells and the effects of donor age on their biological functions. Moustapha Kassem is a co-founder of Stem Cell Treatment Center at Odense University Hospital (OUH), where stem cell therapy is being introduced into clinical practice and PhD graduate school of Stem Cells and Related Technologies.

External links

  • Syddansk Universitet profile
  • http://www.sdu.dk/Om_SDU/Institutter_centre/Klinisk_institut/Forskning/Forskningsenheder/MedicinskEndokrinologi/Forskningsomraader/Kassem%20gruppen/Principal%20Investigator.aspx
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