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Haider H Dar serves as a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public Health. He is an active member of the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity Committee and maintains primary faculty contact status for environmental health initiatives.
His academic credentials include:
- BS in Chemistry from Aligarh Muslim University, India (2001)
- MS in Biotechnology from University of Jammu, India (2003)
- PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Institute of Microbial Technology/Jawaharlal Nehru University, India (2011)
- Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biochemistry and Cell Biology at Hospital Maisonneuve-Rosemont, University of Montreal (2014)
- Visiting Fellowship in Microbiology at McMaster University (2014)
Dr. Dar's research pioneers the study of ferroptosis—a non-apoptotic iron-dependent cell death pathway—and its pathological roles. He discovered "theft-ferroptosis," where Pseudomonas aeruginosa hijacks host lipid-peroxidation machinery to exacerbate chronic respiratory diseases (asthma, cystic fibrosis, COPD). His work extends to radiation-induced ferroptosis in gut epithelium and cancer therapeutics, with the explicit goal of developing targeted ferroptosis inhibitors for clinical intervention.
Analysis of his 2017-2023 publications reveals dominant themes in lipid-peroxidation mechanisms, particularly 15-lipoxygenase/PEBP1 complexes across infectious disease, radiation injury, and oncology contexts. His interdisciplinary approach bridges microbiology, redox biochemistry, and translational medicine, frequently appearing in high-impact journals like Cell and PNAS.
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