Mohammad Shahidullah

Associate Research Professor

Research Associate Professor, Ophthalmology

Since August 1983 I had an uninterrupted career in different teaching and research positions with 5 different Universities in Asia, Europe and America. I published more than 40 peer reviewed articles in different reputed journals and contributed significantly to the field of ocular Physiology and Pharmacology. I graduated with Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) degree in 1982 from Bangladesh Agricultural University. I was awarded University Prize for securing First position in the First Class and appointed as a Lecturer in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology in the following year. During the tenure of my lectureship position I completed MSc in Pharmacology degree in 1985, again with distinction and secured First Class.  I was promoted to Assistant professor in 1987 and worked in that position until Sept. 1990. In 1990 I was awarded Commonwealth Scholarship by the Association of Universities in the United Kingdom to do my PhD in Pharmacology. Strictly speaking this was the start of my research career. I completed PhD in 1994 from the University of Glasgow, UK and because of my outstanding contribution in research I was immediately offered Postdoc position and worked for this University until 2001. During this period I had an outstanding achievement in establishing an experimental model, the perfused intact eye system to study ocular drugs. I published a number of manuscripts utilizing this model system with significant contribution to the field.   In 2001 I was invited by the School of Optometry of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University to help them establish an Ocular Pharmacology laboratory and appointed me as a Research Fellow and Visiting Lecturer. I worked there until June 2005. During this period I was able to adapt the intact eye preparation to record multifocal ERG and this was the first in vitro ERG record in the world. In this position I taught Pharmacology and Physiology to the optometry students. In June 2005 I moved to the United States of America and since then I have been working as Assistant Professor including my present position at the University of Arizona. During this time I established a second model system, the primary culture of nonpigmented ciliary epithelial cells. I published a large number of peer reviewed papers in many reputed journals with significant contribution to ocular physiology and pharmacology research.

Offering Research Opportunities?

Yes

Prerequisite Courses

None

Majors Considered

Physiology, Pharmacology, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology.

Types of Opportunities

Description of Opportunity

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Start Date

January 2023

End Date

January 2024

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