Postdoc Profile: Syed Anees Ahmed

Syed Anees Ahmed
ahmedsy22@ecu.edu
Pharmacology & Toxicology

Mentor
Dr. Abdel A. Abdel-Rahman

Education
PhD, Central Drug Research Institute (CSIR-CDRI/Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), India

Research Summary
Dr. Syed Anees Ahmed has joined Dr. Abdel-Rahman’s lab. He received his Ph.D. in Biological Sciences (Pharmaceutical Sciences, Drug Discovery & Development and Pharmacology & Molecular Biology) from Central Drug Research Institute (CSIR-CDRI), Lucknow, India. In this lab we study central regulation of hypertension, with special emphasis on inflammatory signaling pathways. Additionally, we study the mechanisms of the estrogen modulation of cardiac function in health and disease, sex differences in circadian regulation of cardiac autonomic function in animals exposed to long-term ethanol administration.