Tawfik Aboellail

Professor/Anatomic Pathologist, KVDL
Diplomate of American College of Veterinary Pathologists, ACVP 2004.
Residency in veterinary anatomic pathology, KSU 1998-2001.
Doctor of Philosophy, PhD, Cairo University, Egypt 1998
Master of Veterinary Sciences, M. V. Sc. 1992.
Bachelor of veterinary medical sciences, B. V. Sc.1988.
Office: L228 Mosier Hall
Phone: 785-532-4423
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Teaching
- Dedicated educator committed to training veterinary students, residents, and graduate scholars in anatomic pathology and diagnostic reasoning
- Actively fosters interdisciplinary collaboration to enhance educational outcomes and research innovation
- Mentor future leaders in veterinary pathology with a strong emphasis on critical thinking, diagnostic discipline, and scientific excellence
Research
- Pioneered integrative approaches linking histopathology with molecular and functional data to elucidate disease mechanisms
- Contributed to high-impact, collaborative research advancing understanding of infectious, inflammatory, and neoplastic diseases across species
Engagement
- President, Middle East Chapter of the Charles Louis Davis – Thompson Foundation
- Demonstrated leadership in academic governance, including service on institutional committees at the college, university, national, and international levels
- Former leadership role on Promotion and Tenure Committee at Colorado State University
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Other Publications
Scalable synthetic peptide hydrogel enables self-organized luminal cavity architecture within hiPSC 3D colonies supporting functional hepatocyte differentiation
Xiuzhi Susan Sun Quan Li, Guangyan Qi, Ling Cai, Abhishek P. Shrestha, Sergio Duarte, Yu Shrike Zhang, Ali Zarrinpar, Tawfik Aboellail, Xuming Li, Jianfa Bai, Md Sharifur Rahman, Bruno Hagenbuch, Ming-Shun Chen, Anthony Atala
Bioactive Materials 62 (August 2026), 814-830.
Camelidae
O Gonzales-Viera, T Aboellail, D Agnew
Pathology of Wildlife and Zoo Animals, 167-192. e9. 2026.
Bat influenza viruses transmit among bats but are poorly adapted to non-bat species
Ciminski K, Ran W, Gorka M, Lee J, Malmlov A, Schinköthe J, Eckley M, Murrieta RA, Aboellail TA, Campbell CL, Ebel GD, Ma J, Pohlmann A, Franzke K, Ulrich R, Hoffmann D, García-Sastre A, Ma W, Schountz T, Beer M, Schwemmle M.
Nature Microbiology. 2019 Dec;4(12):2298-2309. doi: 10.1038/s41564-019-0556-9. Epub 2019 Sep 16. PMID: 31527796; PMCID: PMC7758811.
Systemic administration of combinatorial dsiRNAs via nanoparticles efficiently suppresses HIV-1 infection in humanized mice
Jiehua Zhou, C Preston Neff, Xiaoxuan Liu, Jane Zhang, Haitang Li, David D Smith, Piotr Swiderski, Tawfik Aboellail, Yuanyu Huang, Quan Du, Zicai Liang, Ling Peng, Ramesh Akkina, John J Rossi
Molecular Therapy 19 (12), 2228-2238. 2011.
Functional in vivo delivery of multiplexed anti-HIV-1 siRNAs via a chemically synthesized aptamer with a sticky bridge
Jiehua Zhou, C Preston Neff, Piotr Swiderski, Haitang Li, David D Smith, Tawfik Aboellail, Leila Remling-Mulder, Ramesh Akkina, John J Rossi
Molecular Therapy 21 (1), 192-200. 2013
SARS-CoV-2 infection, neuropathogenesis and transmission among deer mice: Implications for spillback to New World rodents
Anna Fagre, Juliette Lewis, Miles Eckley, Shijun Zhan, Savannah M Rocha, Nicole R Sexton, Bradly Burke, Brian Geiss, Olve Peersen, Todd Bass, Rebekah Kading, Joel Rovnak, Gregory D Ebel, Ronald B Tjalkens, Tawfik Aboellail, Tony Schountz
PLoS pathogens 17 (5), e1009585. 2021.
Rotenone induces regionally distinct α-synuclein protein aggregation and activation of glia prior to loss of dopaminergic neurons in C57Bl/6 mice
SM Rocha, CM Bantle, T Aboellail, D Chatterjee, RJ Smeyne, RB Tjalkens
Neurobiology of disease 167, 105685. 2022
Females with obesity exhibit greater influenza vaccine-induced immunity and protection than males in a mouse model
B Wolfe, S Pantha, S Vijayakumar, S Budha Magar, T Aboellail, S Dhakal
Frontiers in Immunology 16, 1699275. 2025.
Acute phase extrapulmonary effects of a high-dose influenza A virus infection in a mouse model of obesity
Saranya Vijayakumar, Saurav Pantha, Brian Wolfe, Qi Zhang, Shristy Budha Magar, Tawfik Aboellail, Santosh Dhakal
Zoonotic Diseases 5 (4), 31
Keeping pathologists in the loop and an adaptive F1-score threshold method for mitosis detection in canine perivascular wall tumors
T Rai, A Morisi, B Bacci, NJ Bacon, MJ Dark, T Aboellail, SA Thomas, ...
Cancers 16 (3), 644. 2024. 2024.
Regulatory T cell-like response to SARS-CoV-2 in Jamaican fruit bats (Artibeus jamaicensis) transduced with human ACE2
Bradly Burke, Savannah M Rocha, Shijun Zhan, Miles Eckley, Clara Reasoner, Amin Addetia, Juliette Lewis, Anna Fagre, Phillida A Charley, Juergen A Richt, Susan R Weiss, Ronald B Tjalkens, David Veesler, Tawfik Aboellail, Tony Schountz
PLoS Pathogens 19 (10), e1011728. 2019.
SARS-CoV-2 infects multiple species of North American deer mice and causes clinical disease in the California mouse
Juliette Lewis, Shijun Zhan, Allison C Vilander, Anna C Fagre, Tawfik A Aboellail, Hippokratis Kiaris, Tony Schountz.
Frontiers in Virology 3, 1114827. 2023.