Dr. Abdo received his BS and MS degrees from Cairo University, Egypt. He got Fellowship of Royal Veterinary College Sweden (FRVCS) from Swedish University, Uppsala, Sweden. He received his doctoral degree in 1995 from Zurich University, Zurich, Switzerland. He trained in two postdoctoral fellowships, the first at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland and the second at the National Institute of Health (NIH), Japan.