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With a medical degree in Egypt in 1994, Mohamed Kohla got his master degree in Internal Medicine from Alexandria university in 1999, started his career as a Hepatologist at the National Liver Institute  in 2001, got his second master degree in Hepatology in 2003. In 2005, Mohamed Kohla was awarded a fully sponsored research fellowship at the transplantation department and liver immunology laboratory at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, USA for 2 years, officially supported by the Egyptian government. At the liver immunology laboratory in San Francisco, he went to establish robust molecular methods for characterizing and analyzing multiple natural killer cell receptor genes and investigated their disease associations in over 200 hepatitis C patients, which resulted in description of a genetic predisposition to liver disease progression in patients with hepatitis C. At the transplantation department, Mohamed Kohla was involved in post transplant outcome studies in a cohort of different ethnic backgrounds. Back to Egypt in 2008, Mohamed Kohla defended his PhD thesis and was nominated as the clinical director of NLI/SSI collaborative research center based in Egypt which was funded by the Sustainable Sciences Institute, a non profit organization based in San Francisco. Mohamed Kohla directed the hepatocellular carcinoma clinic in the period from 2009 till 2015 and participated in establishing tissue bank  and biorepository  at the National Liver Institute. Mohamed Kohla attended many international conferences allover the world, co-authored and reviewed a number of manuscripts published at international peer-reviewed journals in different fields of hepatology, especially, viral hepatitis and hepatocellular carcinoma. In 2016, Mohamed Kohla got the position of an assistant professor at the Hepatology department, National Liver Institute, Menoufiya university in Egypt.