Abeer Mohamed (Mahmoud), MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology
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About
Abeer Mohamed is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine and Department of Kinesiology and nutrition. She received her MD degree and residency training as a Pathologist from Assiut University, Egypt then served as a surgical/clinical pathologist at South Egypt Cancer Institute (2002-2008), before realizing her true passion was in biomedical research. Dr. Mohamed earned her Ph.D. in Pathology (College of Medicine, UIC, 2013) where she studied dietary chemoprevention of cancer. For her postdoctoral research (College of Applied Health Sciences, UIC, 2013-2017), she studied physiological and molecular outcomes of lifestyle interventions in obese and diabetic individuals. She is currently funded by the NIH to study the underlying epigenetic mechanisms of obesity-associated vascular dysfunction and the cross-talk between adipose tissue and endothelial cells under various pathological conditions. Dr. Mohamed also investigates the impact of weight loss and lifestyle interventions on a variety of metabolic and vascular aspects at the clinical and molecular levels utilizing innovative imaging techniques and integrated omics. Major research projects in Dr. Mohamed’s lab include:
o Role of Adipose tissue-derived extracellular vesicles in Obesity-Associated Endothelial Dysfunction (R01HL161386).
o DNA Methylation and Vascular Function in Obesity (R00HL140049-03)
o Role of adiposomes in promoting breast cancer metastasis (U.I. Cancer Center Pilot)
o The role of mechanomiR deregulation as the mechanism of cadmium-induced atherosclerosis (Chicago Center for Health and Environment Pilot).
o Asymmetric-dimethylarginine as a potential mediator of cardiovascular PASC (post-acute SARS-Cov2 consequences) (IllNET RECOVER pilot).
o The role of adiposomal miRNA cargo in sex-based disparity in obesity-associated hypertension (UIC Thematic Project Grant Development Pilot).