Dr. Dewan Majid received his MBBS degree from Sylhet Medical College under Chittagong University, Bangladesh in 1976, where he continued his professional service in different positions as Assistant Surgeon, Assistant Registrar and then Registrar, in the Department of Surgery. In 1981, he moved to Libya to work as a Casualty Medical Officer in Al-Fatah Hospital at Al-Marj, Libya. In 1984, he moved to England, UK to continue his post-graduation studies in Leeds University from where he received his PhD degree in ‘Cardiovascular & Renal Physiology’ in 1989. He joined the Department of Physiology at Tulane University School of Medicine in 1990 as Post-doctoral Fellow in the Renal Physiology laboratory under the direction of Dr. L.G. Navar. He then continued his service as the Faculty in the same Department since 1992. Through succession of different ranks, he rose to the rank of the Professor of Physiology at Tulane in 2007. He is also an active member of the ‘Tulane Hypertension & Renal Center of Excellence (THRCE)’ and currently serving as a Director of Mouse Phenotyping Core of THRCE. Dr. Majid’s research has focused on the importance of the regulation of kidney function by various vasoactive factors and their interactive roles in the development of hypertension. His research works has been funded primarily by grants from the NHLBI, NIGMS, LA Board of Regents and American Society of Hypertension etc. He received many awards and recognitions for his scientific contributions including ‘Harry Goldblatt Award’ for Cardiovascular Research from AHA (American Heart Association), ‘Hoechst Marion Roussel Young Scholar Award’ from ASH (American Society of Hypertension), ‘Prof. S.C. Mahalanobish Memorial Oration Award’ from PSI (Physiological Society of India) and ‘Academic Excellence Award’ from BMANA (Bangladesh Medical Association in North America). Dr. Majid is an active member and fellow of many scientific societies including APS, AHA, ASN, ASH etc. He has served on various grant study sections (AHA, VA etc.) and on Editorial Boards for various national (AJP, Hypertension, ASH etc.) and international (CEPP, Antioxidants, AAJMS, BUJHC etc) journals.
The overall research interests in Dr. Majid’s laboratory are mainly focused on the elucidation of the intrarenal mechanisms regulating renal hemodynamics and renal function by various vasoactive factors including nitric oxide, superoxide, angiotensin II as well as various pro-and anti-inflammatory molecules. These research activities are concentrated to investigate the renal mechanism for the development of hypertension. The experimental efforts are currently directed to obtain an improved understanding of how inflammatory cytokines, particularly tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) could...
PubMed listing of Dewan S.A. Majid, MBBS, Ph.D
