Abrar Ahmad
Assistant researcher
Current position
Assistant Researcher
Current Project
My general interest is to understand the mechanisms leading to diabetic complications with the aim to discover potentially targetable pathways involved in the initiation and progression of diabetic complications. My current project explores wheter inhibition of the calcium/calcineurin-sensitive transcription factor Nuclear Factor of Activated T-cells (NFAT) can represent a novel therapeutic modality to restore vascular endothelial function in diabetes. I am also involved in a project that investigates whether blood outgrowth endothelial cells (BOECs) are potential carriers of accessible information about the cardiovascular status of diabetic patients.
Background and techinques/experience
I graduated as a "Doctor of Veterinary Medicine" from the University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan. I developed a passion for science and obtained a PhD in medical science from Lund University, Sweden in November 2018. The main focus of my doctoral thesis was to develop a genetic model for the risk predicition of recurrent venous thromboembolism.
I have experience of working with pyrosequencing, Sanger´s sequencing, immunohistochemistry, computer image analysis, TaqMan PCR, ELISA, western blot, bio-plex luminex assay, ddPCR and standard molecular biology techniques.
Publications
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- Eliana Garcia-Vaz, Alison D. McNeilly, Lisa M. Berglund, Abrar Ahmad, Jennifer R. Gallagher, et al.
(2020) Diabetes, 69 p.424-435
Journal article - Abrar Ahmad, Kristina Sundquist, Karolina Palmér, Peter J. Svensson, Jan Sundquist, et al.
(2019) Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis, 47 p.216-226
Journal article - Abrar Ahmad, Kristina Sundquist, Peter J. Svensson, Jan Sundquist, Bengt Zöller, et al.
(2018) Gene Reports, 13 p.104-109
Journal article - Kristina Sundquist, Abrar Ahmad, Peter J. Svensson, Bengt Zöller, Jan Sundquist, et al.
(2018) Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis, 46 p.154-165
Journal article - Abrar Ahmad, Kristina Sundquist, Bengt Zöller, Björn Dahlbäck, Johan Elf, et al.
(2018) Clinical and Applied Thrombosis/Hemostasis, 24 p.416-422
Journal article - Abrar Ahmad, Ashfaque A Memon, Jan Sundquist, Peter J Svensson, Bengt Zöller, et al.
(2018) Gene, 647 p.136-142
Journal article - Abrar Ahmad
(2018) Lund University, Faculty of Medicine Doctoral Dissertation Series, 2018
Dissertation - Ashfaque A Memon, Kristina Sundquist, Abrar Ahmad, Xiao Wang, Anna Hedelius, et al.
(2017) Psychiatry Research, 254 p.311-316
Journal article - Abrar Ahmad, Kristina Sundquist, Bengt Zöller, Peter J Svensson, Jan Sundquist, et al.
(2017) Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis, 44 p.130-138
Journal article - Abrar Ahmad, Kristina Sundquist, Bengt Zöller, Peter J. Svensson, Jan Sundquist, et al.
(2017) Clinical and Applied Thrombosis/Hemostasis, 23 p.319-328
Journal article - Abrar Ahmad, Kristina Sundquist, Bengt Zöller, Björn Dahlbäck, Peter J Svensson, et al.
(2016) Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 116 p.41-432
Journal article - Abrar Ahmad, Kristina Sundquist, Bengt Zöller, Peter Svensson, Jan Sundquist, et al.
(2016) Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis, 42 p.135-141
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