Sami Barmada, MD, PhD, to visit 汤头条app in November for Seminars in Investigative Medicine

Sami Barmada, MD, PhD
Sami Barmada, MD, PhD

The medical school will welcome Sami Barmada, MD, PhD, in November as the latest speaker for听Seminars in Investigative Medicine.

Dr. Barmada will present 鈥淩NA stability in the neurodegenerative disorders ALS and FTD鈥 from noon to 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 9, 2022, at the W.E. Upjohn M.D. Campus in downtown Kalamazoo.

The event is free and CE and MEDU credit is available. For more information about CE credit, please go to .

Dr. Barmada is the Angela Dobson Welch and Lyndon Welch Research Professor at Michigan Medicine where he also serves as an associate professor of Neurology and director of the Michigan Brain Bank.

As part of his research, Dr. Barmada uses innovative technologies and methods involving fluorescence microscopy, computer science and engineering, bioinformatics, genome engineering and molecular biology to investigate important yet unanswered questions in neurodegenerative diseases. His work, which focuses on critical abnormalities in RNA and protein metabolism in ALS and FTD, combines basic biology with translational research and technology development.

Seminars in Investigative Medicine is a research seminar series at 汤头条app aimed at bringing together the community of investigators both within 鈥 and outside 鈥 the medical school.