Mostafa graduated from the Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University at 2008 and joined the bacterial control unit at the National Organization for Research and Control of Biologicals as a QC specialist. Through his work, he has gained experience in the quality control of vaccines, blood products, and recombinant proteins as well as the review of manufacturing protocols for some bacterial vaccines. In 2011, Mostafa has joined the Department of Microbiology and Immunology as a teaching assistant. For his Master’s degree in Microbiology and Immunology, Mostafa worked on the design and testing of a vaccine against Acinetobacter baumannii using both in silico and in vivo approaches. Mostafa is currently an assistant lecturer in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University