Journal of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology
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Biography

Mohammad Afaque Alam, Ph.D., is a molecular biology at The Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia, USA. His focus area of research includes genomics, proteomics, lipidomics, miRnomics and signalomics. Dr Alam received his Ph.D. from All India Institute of Medical Sciences and Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi, India in 2008 in the area of Molecular Cardiology. Dr Alam trained at Ottawa and Montreal Heart Institute as molecular cardiovascular biologist where he worked on identifying novel SNPs using genome-wide association study (GWAS), and also characterizes the potential role of reconstituted HDL on circulating progenitor cells in patients with acute coronary syndrome. He also worked at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) in developing methods for the measurement of blood pressure in freely moving mice and also worked on the role of calcium sensor gene called Stim1 on cardiac hypertrophy. These works are published in Scientific Reports, JOVE, Human Genetics, Plos One. He has presented his research findings at various national and international scientific conferences and meetings of cardiovascular diseases and received several awards.

Research Interest

Genomics, proteomics, lipidomics, miRnomics and signalomics.