Assistant Professor
University of Illinois Chicago
Dr. Abeer Mohamed is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine and Department of Kinesiology and nutrition. She received her MD degree and residency training as a Pathologist from Assiut University, Egypt then served as a surgical/clinical pathologist at South Egypt Cancer Institute (2002-2008), before realizing her true passion was in biomedical research. Dr. Mohamed earned her Ph.D. in Pathology (College of Medicine, UIC, 2013) where she studied dietary chemoprevention of cancer. For her postdoctoral research (College of Applied Health Sciences, UIC, 2013-2017), she studied physiological and molecular outcomes of lifestyle interventions in obese and diabetic individuals. She is currently funded by the NIH to study the underlying epigenetic mechanisms of obesity-associated vascular dysfunction and the cross-talk between adipose tissue and endothelial cells under various pathological conditions. Dr. Mohamed also investigates the impact of weight loss and lifestyle interventions on a variety of metabolic and vascular aspects at the clinical and molecular levels utilizing innovative imaging techniques and integrated omics.