Biography

Dr. Mahmoud Mohamed Bendary is the Vice Dean for Community Service and Environmental Development at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Port-Said University, where he also serves as Head of the Microbiology and Immunology Department. He earned his Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences (Microbiology & Immunology) from Suez Canal University in 2016.

Dr. Bendary’s career spans academia, research, and clinical practice, with prior roles as a hospital pharmacist, lecturer, and associate professor. His research focuses on bacterial evolution, antimicrobial resistance, molecular microbiology, and innovative nanotherapy approaches for infectious diseases. He has published extensively in high-impact journals, contributed over 2000 gene sequences to GenBank (with 20 novel mutations recorded in his name), and serves as a reviewer and editorial board member for multiple international journals.

Recognized with the University Encouragement Award in 2023, Dr. Bendary has also led several academic quality and strategy initiatives. His scholarly work has earned him an H-index of 22 on Google Scholar, reflecting his significant contributions to the fields of microbiology and immunology

Educational Qualification

Education Qualification:
✓Bachelor's Degree in Pharmaceutical science, College of Pharmacy, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt, May 2003. General grade: Very Good with Honor degree Percentage: 79.28 %.
✓Diploma in Applied Microbiology Science, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt, December 2009.
✓Master Degree in Microbiological Science, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt, 2012. Under the title, “Phenotypic and genotypic identification of coagulase producing staphylococci isolated from different sources”
✓Philosophy Doctor degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Suez Canal University, 2016, under the title “Molecular typing and detection of Staphylococcus aureus virulence and antibiotic resistance genes”

Academic And Professional Experience

Administrative experience
✓Head of Faculty of Pharmacy Quality unit
✓Head of strategy planning unit
✓Head of microbiology and immunology department
✓Chairman of the committee to amend the academic regulations for students
✓Chairman of the committee to amend the academic regulations for post graduate students
✓Peer reviewer in International journal of infectious diseases and therapy, cellular and molecular biology journal, journal of infection in developing countries, European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, acta pathologica, microbiologica, et immunologica Scandinavica, Polish Journal of Microbiology, Infection and drug resistance, BMC microbiology, Life science , Future Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
✓Editorial Board Members In SCIREA Journal of Chemistry, Journal of Clinical and Medical Images, Case Reports

Publications

●Publications:
1.
Ahlam A. Gharib, Adel Attia M.A and Bendary M. M. Detection of the coa Gene In Staphylococcus aureus From Different Sources By Polymerase Chain Reaction, International Journal of Microbiological Research, 2013, 4 (1): 37-42. http://idosi.org/ijmr/ijmr4(1)13/7.pdf
2.
Marwa I. Abd El-Hamid; Bendary M. M. Association between agr Alleles and toxin Gene Profiles of S. aureusisolated from Human and Animal Sources in Egypt, International Journal of Advanced Research, 2013, 1(8): 133-144. "https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305150890
3.
Marwa I. Abd El-Hamid and M. M. Bendary, Comparative phenotypic and genotypic discrimination of methicillin resistant and susceptible Staphylococcus aureus in Egypt. Cell. Mol. Biol. 2015, 61 (4): 106-117. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26429300
4.
M. M. Bendary, S. M. Solyman, M. M. Azab, N. F. Mahmoud, A. M. Hanora, Characterization of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolated from human and animal samples in Egypt, Cell. Mol. Biol. 2016, 62 (2): 94-100. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26950458
5.
M. M. Bendary, S. M. Solyman, M. M. Azab, N. F. Mahmoud, A. M. Hanora, Genetic diversity of multidrug resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolated from clinical and non clinical samples in Egypt Cell. Mol. Biol. 2016, 62 (10):55-61. http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/27609475
6.
Adel A. M. Ahmad, Ahmad M. Ammar, Mahmoud Bendary, Norhan K. Abd El-Aziz, Marwa I. Abd El-Hamid and Gamal A. El-mowalid. Phenogenotyping of Closely Related Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Isolated from Milk and Meat Products, Zagazig Veterinary Journal, 2017, 45(4) p. 394-403. http://www.zvj.zu.edu.eg/index.php/zvj/article/view/323
7- Mustafa I*, Mostafa SM1, El-Sabbagh OI, Ibrahim TS, Abdulrahman A, Bendary MM. Synthesis and Antimicrobial Evaluation of Novel Hydrazones and 1,3,4-Oxadiazoles Incorporating Bumetanide Derivatives, Der Pharma Chemica, 2018, 10(9): 33-57
8- Norhan K. Abd El-Aziz, Marwa I. Abd El-Hamid*, Mahmoud M. Bendary, Asmaa A. El-Azazy, Ahmed M. Ammar. Existence of vancomycin resistance among methicillin resistant S. aureus recovered from animal and human source in, Slov Vet Res 2018; 55,20: 221–30 https://www.slovetres.si/index.php/VMHE/article/view/649/136
9-M. I. Abd El‐Hamid* | M. M. Bendary* | A. M. A. Merwad | I. Elsohaby |D.M.Ghaith | W. A. Alshareef. What is behind phylogenetic analysis of hospital, community and livestockassociated methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus? Transbound Emerg Dis. 2019;1–12. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/tbed.13170
10- Abd El-Hamid MI, Abd El-Aziz NK, Samir M, El-Naenaeey EY, Abo Remela EM, Mosbah RA and Bendary MM Genetic Diversity of Campylobacter jejuni Isolated From Avian and Human Sources in Egypt. Front. Microbiol. (2019) 10:2353. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.02353
11-Doaa M. Ghaith, Mai Mahmoud Zafer, Halaa Mufeed Said, Sherif Elanwary, Salwa Elsaban, Mohamed Hamed Al-Agamy, Marie Fe F. Bohol, Mahmoud M. Bendary, Ahmed Al-Qahtani and Mohammed N Al-Ahdal. Genetic diversity of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella Pneumoniae causing neonatal sepsis in intensive care unit, Cairo, Egypt , Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. (2019). DOI 10.1007/s10096-019-03761-2
12- M. F. Ghaly · A. A. Shaheen · A. M. Bouhy, M. M. Bendary. Alternative therapy to manage otitis media caused by multidrug‑resistant fungi. Archives of Microbiology (2020) 202:1231–1240. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00203-020-01832-z
13- Hegazy WAH, Khayat MT, Ibrahim TS, Nassar MS, Bakhrebah MA, Abdulaal WH, Alhakamy NA, Bendary MM. Repurposing Anti-diabetic Drugs to Cripple Quorum Sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Microorganisms. 2020 Aug 22;8(9):1285. doi: 10.3390/microorganisms8091285. PMID: 32842696; PMCID: PMC7569791. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32842696/
14- Abd El-Hamid MI, Y El-Naenaeey ES, M Kandeel T, Hegazy WAH, Mosbah RA, Nassar MS, Bakhrebah MA, Abdulaal WH, Alhakamy NA, Bendary M.M. Promising Antibiofilm Agents: Recent Breakthrough against Biofilm Producing Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Antibiotics (Basel). 2020 Oct 3;9(10):667. doi: 10.3390/antibiotics9100667. PMID: 33022915; PMCID: PMC7600973.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33022915/
15- Bendary, Mahmoud M.; Ibrahim, Doaa; Mosbah, Rasha A.; Mosallam, Farag; Hegazy, Wael A.H.; Awad, Naglaa F.S.; Alshareef, Walaa A.; Alomar, Suliman Y.; Zaitone, Sawsan A.; Abd El-Hamid, Marwa I. 2021. "Thymol Nanoemulsion: A New Therapeutic Option for Extensively Drug Resistant Foodborne Pathogens" Antibiotics 10, no. 1: 25. https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics10010025
16- Ghaly, M.F.; Nasr, Z.M.;Abousaty, A.I.; Seadawy, H.G.;Shaheen, M.A.A.; Albogami, S.;Al-Sanea, M.M.; Bendary, M.M. Alternative and Complementary Therapies against Foodborne Salmonella Infections. Antibiotics 2021, 10, 1453 https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics101214
17-Ibrahim, D.; Abdelfattah-Hassan, A.; Badawi, M.; Ismail, T.A.; Bendary, M.M.; Abdelaziz, A.M.; Mosbah, R.A.; Mohamed, D.I.;Arisha, A.H.; Abd El-Hamid, M.I. Thymol nanoemulsion promoted broiler chicken’s growth, gastrointestinal barrier and bacterial community and conferred protection against Salmonella typhimurium. Sci. Rep. 2021, 11, 7742.
18-Mosallam, F.M.; Helmy, E.A.; Bendary, M.M.; El-Batal, I.A. Potency of a novel synthesized Ag- eugenol nanoemulsion for treating some bacterial and fungal pathogens. J. Mater. Res. 2021, 36, 1524–1537.
19- Ammar, A.M.; Abd El-Hamid, M.I.; El-Malt, R.M.S.; Azab,D.S.; Albogami, S.; Al-Sanea, M.M.; Soliman, W.E.; Ghoneim, M.M.;Bendary, M.M. Molecular Detection of Fluoroquinolone Resistance among Multidrug-, Extensively Drug-, and Pan-Drug-Resistant Campylobacter Species in Egypt. Antibiotics 2021, 10,1342. https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics10111342
20-Mahmoud A. Elfaky • Marwa I. Abdel Hamid • Eman Khalifa • Walaa A. Alshareef • Rasha A. Mosbah,• Sara T. Elazab • Mohammed M. Ghoneim • Mohammad M. Al Sanea • Mahmoud M. Bendary. Innovative next-generation therapies in combating multi-drug-resistant and multi-virulent Escherichia coli isolates: insights from in vitro, in vivo, and molecular docking studies. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-022-11781-w
21-Marwa I. Abd El-Hamid ,Alaa H. Sewid , Mohamed Samir,Wael A. H. Hegazy, Mosa M. Bahnass , Rasha A. Mosbah , Doaa M. Ghaith *, Eman khalifa , Hazem Ramadan , Walaa. A. Alshareef , Hanan M. Alshareef , Mohammed M. Ghoneim, Mohammed M. Al-Sanea, Mahmoud M. Bendary. Clonal diversity and epidemiological characteristics of ST239-MRSA strains. Frontier of cellular and infectious microbiology
22-Bendary, M.M.; Abd El-Hamid, M.I.; El-Tarabili, R.M.; Hefny, A.A.; Algendy, R.M.; Elzohairy, N.A.; Ghoneim, M.M.; Al-Sanea, M.M.; Nahari, M.H.; Moustafa, W.H. Clostridium perfringens Associated with Foodborne Infections of Animal Origins: Insights into Prevalence, Antimicrobial Resistance, Toxin Genes Profiles, and Toxinotypes. Biology 2022, 11, 551. https:// doi.org/10.3390/biology11040551
23-Abd El-Hamid, M. I., Bendary, M. M., Merwad, A. M. A., Elsohaby, I., Mohammad Ghaith, D., & Alshareef, W. A. (2019). What is behind phylogenetic analysis of hospital-, community- and livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus?. Transboundary and emerging diseases, 66(4), 1506–1517. https://doi.org/10.1111/tbed.13170
24-Bendary, M. M., Abdel-Hamid, M. I., Alshareef, W. A., Alshareef, H. M., Mosbah, R. A., Omar, N. N., Al-Sanea, M. M., Alhomrani, M., Alamri, A. S., & Moustafa, W. H. (2022). Comparative Analysis of Human and Animal E. coli: Serotyping, Antimicrobial Resistance, and Virulence Gene Profiling. Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland), 11(5), 552. https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics11050552
25- Soliman, L. A., Zayed, R. A., Omran, D., Said, F., Darweesh, S. K., Ghaith, D. M., Eletreby, R., Barakat, M. S., Bendary, M. M., Zaky, D. Z., Amer, E., & Elmahgoub, I. R. (2022). Apelin Association with Hepatic Fibrosis and Esophageal Varices in Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C Virus. The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 107(1), 190–197. https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.21-0085
26-A bdElrahman, M., Ibrahim, M.K., Tawfik, S. Bendary, M. M., et al. The relation between SNPs in the NME1 gene and response to sofosbuvir in Egyptian patients with chronic HCV. Beni-Suef Univ J Basic Appl Sci 12, 2 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s43088-022-00337-6
27- Bendary MM, Abd El-Hamid MI, Abousaty AI, Elmanakhly AR, Alshareef WA, Mosbah RA, Alhomrani M, Ghoneim MM, Elkelish A, Hashim N, Alamri AS, Al-Harthi HF, Safwat NA. Therapeutic Switching of Rafoxanide: a New Approach To Fighting Drug-Resistant Bacteria and Fungi. Microbiol Spectr. 2023 Aug 17;11(4):e0267922. doi: 10.1128/spectrum.02679-22. Epub 2023 Jul 17. PMID: 37458598; PMCID: PMC10433953.
28-Elmanakhly AR, Bendary MM, Safwat NA, Awad EA, Alhomrani M, Alamri AS, Khafagy ES, Alotaibi HF, Abou-Elazm FI. (2022). Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae: Diversity, Virulence, and Antimicrobial Resistance. Infection and drug resistance, 15, 6177–6187. https://doi.org/10.2147/IDR.S387742
29-Ghaly MF, Albalawi MA, Bendary MM, Shahin A, Shaheen MA, Abu Eleneen AF, Ghoneim MM, Elmaaty AA, Elrefai MFM, Zaitone SA, Abousaty AI. Tamarindus indica Extract as a Promising Antimicrobial and Antivirulence Therapy. Antibiotics (Basel). 2023 Feb 24;12(3):464. doi: 10.3390/antibiotics12030464. PMID: 36978330; PMCID: PMC10044421
30-Mohamed EFE, Hafez AEE, Seadawy HG, Bendary MM . Irradiation as a Promising Technology to Improve Bacteriological and Physicochemical Quality of Fish. Microorganisms. 2023;11(5):1105. Published 2023 Apr 23. doi:10.3390/microorganisms11051105
31-Elsayed ME, Abd El-Hamid MI, El-Gedawy A, Bendary MM. New Insights into Listeria monocytogenes Antimicrobial Resistance, Virulence Attributes and Their Prospective Correlation. Antibiotics (Basel). 2022;11(10):1447. Published 2022 Oct 21. doi:10.3390/antibiotics11101447
32-Abd El-Hamid MI, El-Tarabili RM, Bahnass MM, Alshahrani MA, Saif A, Alwutayd KM, Safhi FA, Mansour AT, Alblwi NAN, Ghoneim MM, Elmaaty AA, Al-Harthi HF, Bendary MM. Partnering essential oils with antibiotics: proven therapies against bovine Staphylococcus aureus mastitis. Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2023 Sep 15;13:1265027. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2023.1265027. PMID: 37790910; PMCID: PMC10542579.
33-Mosallam FM, Bendary MM, Elshimy R, El-Batal AI. Curcumin clarithromycin nano-form a promising agent to fight Helicobacter pylori infections. World J Microbiol Biotechnol. 2023 Sep 29;39(12):324. doi: 10.1007/s11274-023-03745-7. PMID: 37773301; PMCID: PMC10541836