Welcome to SCMH
Published: 19 February 2021
We welcome a new PhD student Anmar Raheem to Prof Christopher Loughry’s lab.
We would like to Welcome Anmar Raheem to SCMH. Anmar is a Pharmacist and PhD student in Prof Christopher Loughry’s lab. He has studied Bachelor of Pharmacy in the Lebanese International University in Lebanon and graduated in 2018. He moved to the UK and finished his MSc in Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Aberdeen and graduated in 2019. He went back to Iraq and worked as a full time HSE Officer and part time pharmacist for about 14 months. Then he started his PhD In Cardiovascular Medical Sciences in 7 Jan 2021.
My research focuses on the role RUNX1 transcription factor in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction. I’m investigating its expression and function in mice models of Transverse Aortic Constriction-induced systolic heart failure and we are studying the potential therapeutic utility of targeting it for the treatment of cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure.
First published: 19 February 2021