Event Information

Event Topic:
Advances & Challenges in treatment of neuromuscular rare diseases

Event Description:
This talk will focus on giving an overview of neuromuscular rare diseases including prevalence, diagnosis, disease progression and thus far limited treatment options. The speaker will share some exciting current advances in treatment of few of these diseases. The latter half of the talk will focus on Syed sharing his personal experiences as a father of a child living with the disease and searching for a treatment and challenges encountered in the journey. The main purpose of this talk is to bring awareness about the prevalence of these classes of disorders to the biotech industry researchers; hoping to increase the number of groups participating in finding treatment options. A case in point is to extend the clinical trials to far eastern countries which will help a vast number of patients suffering silently and losing the battle early in their lives to such disorders as Duchene Muscular Dystrophy.

Date/Time:
Date(s) - 11/02/21
8:30 am - 10:30 am

Event Location:
Zoom talk: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88274227563:

Speaker Information

Event Speaker:
Syed Maqbool Ahmed

Event Speaker Title:
Principal Scientific Officer, Head-Central Instruments Laboratory;

Event Speaker Company:
University of Hyderabad

Event Speaker Bio:

Presently, Dr. S. M. Ahmed is heading the Central Instruments Laboratory as Principal Scientific Officer at the University of Hyderabad Ph.D.(1990) from the Physical Research Laboratory, INDIA He has held positions at:  Associate Professor-I, Institute for Plasma Research, INDIA: 1992-2004  Research Associate, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA: 1994-96  Visiting Scientist, Swiss Federal Institute, EPFL, Switzerland: 2001-2  Team leader, ISRO’s Vikram Sarabhai Space Center, INDIA: 2004-9  Adjunct Faculty, IIT Bhubaneswar, INDIA: 2014 Prestigious Positions:  He has spoken at TEDx HiTech City, Hyderabad, 2010; GITAM Univ., Hyderabad, 2017  Served as Scientific Advisory Council Member (2012), Team Indus, the google Lunar X-Prize  He joined ISRO’s most ambitious Chandrayaan-I project in 2004 and developed a quadrupole-based mass spectrometer, CHACE, which worked successfully in the Moon Impact Probe

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