Chair:

Hind Lal, PhD

Brief Bio:

I am a tenured, full-time faculty (Associate Professor of Medicine) at The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). I received my Ph.D. (2005) in Microbiology and Molecular Biology from the Indian Institute of Toxicology Research (IITR), Lucknow, a constituent laboratory of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR). After that, I relocated to the USA for Post-doctoral training at Texas A&M University (2005-2009), and Thomas Jefferson University (2009-2012). Before starting my own lab at Vanderbilt University, Nashville in 2014, I served a couple of years as a Junior faculty at Temple University, Philadelphia. The overall research theme of my lab is to understand the proteins and signaling pathways that regulate cardiac function and dysfunction. The findings from these investigations are expected to develop novel approaches and therapies to improve the prevention and treatment of HF. My research program is supported by grants from the NIH and AHA. I supervise basic and translational research activities of multiple trainee scientists at all levels; this includes postdoctoral Fellows, graduate, undergraduate, and medical students. Mentoring new generation of scientists, especially trainees, is integral to my research program. I derive great pleasure from the success of my trainees, independent from my own. This reflects in our lab's long-term vision “to be a world-class basic cardiac biology lab that consistently explores paradigm-shifting hypotheses while also producing the ‘best and brightest young scientists who will leap from our work with new ideas and expand the field. Thus, training and mentoring are at the heart of my research program.