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Muzamil is a scientific storyteller. He is passionate about helping biotech companies navigate the journey of their groundbreaking medicine from lab bench to patient.

His research career began at the Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King’s College London, investigating the effect of retinoic acid concentration gradients and its metabolizing genes in the developing chick embryo, under the supervision of Professor Malcolm Maden. Work at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, contributed to the development of a plasma biomarker panel of proteins to predict preclinical Alzheimer’s disease, in the laboratory of Professor Simon Lovestone.

 

Predoctoral research at the University of Pittsburgh focused on investigating the cellular and molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration, using genetically modified mouse models. The work sought to explore the role of lipid-associated genes in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease. Muzamil’s doctoral research has demonstrated nanomedicine-driven chronic pain relief in a rat model, whilst revealing aspects of the underlying macrophage and mast cell neurobiology.

Muzamil was awarded a predoctoral fellowship in 2011 by the University of Pittsburgh to research the role of lipid associated genes in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease. In 2015, his doctoral research was awarded the Gerald F Gebhart Distinguished Research Prize by the University of Pittsburgh, USA.

He most recently completed a tenure on Wall Street as an equity researcher in the healthcare sector— working to analyze and communicate the science and market potential of biotech companies. Currently, Muzamil is working to empower these biotech companies to move their exciting, much-needed therapies towards regulatory approval

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Experience

2022 - present

Associate Scientific Director, Healthcare Consultancy Group

2019 - 2022

Associate Healthcare Equity Researcher. H.C. Wainwright & Co.

2018 - 2019

Scientific Consultant (freelance)

2012 - 2018

Graduate Teaching Assistant. Duquesne University

2011 - 2012

Predoctoral Research Fellow, University of Pittsburgh

2009 - 2011

Research Scholar, King's College London

Education 

2012 - 2019

Ph.D. Neuroscience, Duquesne University

2008 - 2009

M.Sc. Neuroscience, King's College London

2001 - 2004

B.Sc. Clinical Sciences, King's College London

Awards 

2015

Gerald F Gebhart Distinguished Research Prize, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

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