Faculty of Health Sciences
American University of Beirut
Van Dyck Building
PO Box 11-0236
Beirut, Lebanon
Office: Room 325, Van Dyck
Tel: 961 1 350000 Ext. 4699; Fax: 961-1-744470
Email: melhemn@aub.edu.lb
Academic Degrees
PhD (2007) Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Research Interests
Cellular immunity to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1)
Dendritic cells and dynamics in viral infections
Hepatitis B virus: immunity and genetic correlates of protection
H1N1 flu
Research Projects
Affinity binding of HIV-1 peptides to T cells
Role of HLA and KIR as correlates of protection among HBV vaccinated and non-vaccinated individuals
Selected Publications
Colleton, BA, Huang, XL, Melhem, NM and Rinaldo, CR. Primary human immunodeficiency virus type 1-specific CD8+ T cell responses induced by myeloid dendritic cells .
J Virol. 2009 83(12):6288-99.
Melhem, NM, Gleason, SM, Liu, X., and Barratt-Boyes, S. High-level antigen expression and sustained antigen presentation in dendritic cells nucleofected with wild –type viral mRNA but not DNA.
Clin Vaccine Immunol 2008. 15(9):1337-44.
Melhem, NM, Liu, X., Boczkowski, D., Gilboa, E. and Barratt-Boyes, S. Robust CD4+ and CD8+ T cell responses to SIV using mRNA-transfected dendritic cells expressing lysosome-targeted antigen from infected monkeys.
Eur J Immunol 2007. 37(8):2164-73.
Barratt-Boyes SM, Brown KN, Melhem NM, Soloff AC, Gleason SM. Understanding and exploiting dendritic cells in human immunodeficiency virus infection using the nonhuman primate model. Immunol Res. 2006; 36 (1-3):265-74.
Professional Affiliations American Association of Immunologists
WHO-EMRO Temporary advisor
WHO Epidemiological Working Group on H1N1 (member)
National Committee of Communicable Diseases (member)
Bachelor
of Science in Health Sciences, Major Medical Laboratory
Sciences 
