Musaad Ali Alshammari, PhD

Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology

Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology

College of Pharmacy, King Saud University

 

Location:  Building 23, Second floor, Room 2B 100, Lab 2B 107/83/64

Phone: + (966) 11 4677183

Fax: + (966) 11 4677200

Web: fac.ksu.edu.sa/malshammari

Mailing Address

Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology

College of Pharmacy, King Saud University

P.O. Box 2457, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia

Research Interests

Identify the best therapeutic intervention for neurological and psychiatric disorders using translational approaches including, genetically and pharmacologically diseased-based animal models.

Goals

Understand the biology of pathological dysfunctions in brain disorders such as depression, autism, anxiety, pain, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), schizophrenia, Alzheimer, and epilepsy.

Identify a biological link between CNS disorders and metabolic diseases such as diabetes and obesity.

Characterize signaling pathways critically involved in brain disorders.

Identify a potential biomarker and drug target / examine these drug targets.

Area of Research

Currently, my work centers on understanding the role of the molecular mechanisms underlying adult neural stem cells development in the adult mammalian brain. I am interested in identifying a novel regulator of adult neurogenesis that may be the key molecule in the pathogenesis of major neuropsychiatric disorders.





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