Haidar Alaa one of the faculty members in our department who had a scholarship to study a PhD degree outside the country was published a research under the title "Thermal shock susceptibility and re-growth of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms" in the International Journal of Hyperthermia with impact factor of 3.262, which is the official Journal of three professional associations - Society for Thermal Medicine (North America), European Society for Hyperthermia Oncology, and Japanese Society for Thermal Medicine. The study discussed the effect of heating on the Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Gram-negative bacteria) and the possibility of recovery of its growth potential.