Dr. Dale Elvis King

Dale Elvis King is an Associate Professor in the Biology Department at the American University of Iraq, Baghdad. He lives in Ottawa, Canada.

Dale King holds a PhD from Purdue University, Indiana, USA in Gut Physiology and Nutrition and a certificate in Bioinformatics from the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He has over 30 years of experience in biomedical research, teaching and administration. He did his postdoctoral training at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, Illinois, USA in gut microbiology and at Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada in neuron sensitization of the enteric nervous system during inflammation. Also, he has been trained in mouse and human stem cell technology at Uppsala University, Upsala, Sweden.

Prior to his appointment at AUIB, Dale King was a faculty member at Wenzhou-Kean University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. He has taught Medical Physiology, Nutrition, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics in China, South Korea and various medicals schools in North America. At AUIB, he is the course director for Bio 225, Biochemistry. He also teaches Bio 218, Pathophysiology.

In his current research Dale King focuses on 1. Human behavior, contact networks, and mediating environmental factors on pathogen transmission dynamics 2. Non-coding regulatory elements that contribute to metabolic and autoimmune diseases for targets of drug interventions.