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It profiles key faculty members, highlighting their academic background, research focus in areas such as pharmacology, inflammation, prostanoids, nociceptive pain processing, and ion-channel mechanisms, and describing relevant animal pain models and experimental approaches. 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Box 2713 Doha, Qatar\nEmail: \u0013 HYPERLINK \"mailto:Aida.Habib@qu.edu.qa\" \\h \u0014Aida.Habib@qu.edu.qa\u0015\nDr. Aida Habib is a full professor of Pharmacology at the College of Medicine, Qatar University. Dr. Aida Habib obtained her MS in Molecular and Cellular Biology-\nImmunology from Université de Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, and her Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Biology of Vessels and Platelets-coagulation from Université Paris 7 (now Université de Paris), working on arachidonic acid and cyclooxygenase-2 in endothelial cells.\nAfter a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia in the group of Garret FitzGerald, she was appointed as a senior researcher at the CNRS in Paris, France, conducting her research on the regulation of cyclooxygenases and the signaling of the thromboxane receptors in the vascular and inflammatory cells. In 2002, she joined the faculty of Medicine at the American University of Beirut as an associate professor of Biochemistry.\nShe was promoted to professor in 2008. During this time, she was a visiting researcher in the group « Inflammatory responses in chronic liver diseases », led by Dr. Sophie Lotersztajn at the Center for Research on Inflammation (CRI, INSERM U1149), Paris, France. Dr. Aida Habib is an internationally recognized researcher working on prostanoids and the arachidonic acid pathway in inflammation vascular biology.\nShe has also contributed to important studies on liver fibrosis. She carries out translational research on inflammation and liver pathophysiology through projects covering molecular and cellular aspects as well as animal models. Her research aims for a better understanding of the mechanisms of inflammatory disease and liver failure. The focus is on the identification of targets in macrophages that limit inflammation.\nDr. Aida Habib is the recipient of the Bronze Medal for research from the CNRS in France. She published more than 80 papers in peer-reviewed journals (Google scholar h-index 41, ˃ 6500 citations).\nGoogle scholar: htps://scholar.google.com/citations?user=521MHrcAAAAJ&hl=en\nProfessor Laiche Djouhri Professor of Physiology College of Medicine\nP.O. Box 2713 Doha, Qatar\nEmail: \u0013 HYPERLINK \"mailto:ldjouhri@qu.edu.qa\" \\h \u0014ldjouhri@qu.edu.qa\u0015\nMy research is focussed on understanding of the processing of nociceptive “pain” information and in the peripheral mechanisms underlying hyperexcitability of dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons, and hypersensitivity associated with chronic inflammatory and neuropathic pain (NP), major health problems. My current research interests include the role of the immune and nervous systems, and ion channels (e.g. KCNQ/Kv7, and HCN channels) in spontaneous activity in DRG neurons that that drives chronic inflammatory and neuropathic pain. I have been using the following animal (rat) models of chronic pain and approaches:\nAnimal models of chronic pain\nCFA (Complete Freund’s adjuvant) model of chronic inflammatory pain\nSNL (spinal nerve ligation) model of neuropathic pain\nSTZ (Streptozotocin) model of diabetes-induced neuropathic pain\nPaclitaxel model of chemotherapy-induced neuropathic pain\nApproaches/techniques\nIn vivo single electrode voltage clamp (SEVC) recordings in anaesthetized rats.\nIn vivo voltage recordings in anaesthetized rats coupled with dye-injection and immunocytochemistry\nImmunohistochemistry of whole DRGs.\nPharmacological and behavioural studies to examine effects of modulating ion channels (e.g. HCN and Kv7) and proinflammatory mediators (e.g. cytokines and NGF) on the excitability of nociceptors and pain hypersensitivity in the aforementioned animal models of chronic pain.\nGoogle Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=bZOxBqEAAAAJ&hl=en\nProfessor Saghir Akhtar Professor of pharmacology College of Medicine\nP.O. Box 2713 Doha, Qatar \u0013 HYPERLINK \"mailto:s.akhtar@qu.edu.qa\"","cbCaijEonfj9I3ju","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijEonfj9I3ju","docx",900048,19,"English","# Potential Supervisors\n## Professor Aida Habib\n## Professor Laiche Djouhri\n## Professor Saghir Akhtar","[{\"question\":\"What are the research themes of Professor Aida Habib?\",\"answer\":\"Her work centers on prostanoids and the arachidonic acid pathway in inflammation and vascular biology, with translational studies including liver fibrosis and macrophage targets that limit inflammation.\"},{\"question\":\"Which chronic pain animal models are mentioned by Professor Laiche Djouhri?\",\"answer\":\"The document lists CFA for chronic inflammatory pain, SNL for neuropathic pain, STZ for diabetes-induced neuropathic pain, and Paclitaxel for chemotherapy-induced neuropathic pain.\"},{\"question\":\"What research areas does Professor Saghir Akhtar lead?\",\"answer\":\"He is a professor of pharmacology with a leadership role as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Drug Targeting, and his background emphasizes drug delivery, genome-based therapeutics, and molecular pharmacology.\"}]","College of Medicine - PhD Potential Supervisors - Spring 2026 | DOCX",1788332006,7]