Mojtaba Abdul Roda
Utrecht University, Netherlands
Biography
Mojtaba Abdul Roda obtained his Master’s degree in Pharmacy in 2011 and successfully applied for the NWO Mosaic grant that allowed him to do his PhD. During his PhD, he has worked at both Utrecht University as well as at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA. In 2015. Mojtaba won the Pharmacy PhD competition at Utrecht University as well as the national competition later that year. Mojtaba continued researching the role of PGP in COPD in collaboration with the pharmaceutical company Bayer during his post-doc. The focus of his current work is translating the findings of his thesis into a new therapeutic for COPD.
Abstract
Abstract : Cigarette smoke-induced collagen destruction; key to chronic neutrophilic airway inflammation