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Abba Zubair MD, PhD
Dean of Education & Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
Mayo Clinic
USA
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Dr. Zubair is the Dean of Education at SSMC/Mayo Clinic Joint Venture Abu Dhabi, UAE. He is a professor of Lab Medicine and was the former Medical Director of Transfusion Medicine and Stem Cell Therapy at Mayo Clinic Florida for 18 years. Dr. Zubair did his clinical residency at the Hospital of University of Pennsylvania in Clinical Pathology and a fellowship in Transfusion Medicine at the Harvard Medical Center, Boston USA. He obtained a master’s degree in clinical trials and principles of drug development at Harvard University and MIT. Dr. Zubair was educated at ABU Medical School, Zaria Nigeria. He studied homing and trafficking of human lymphoma cells at Sheffield University Cancer Institute, England and obtained a PhD degree in Cancer Immunobiology in 1995. His research interest is in the field of stem cell biology and regenerative medicine. He conducts both NIH and industry-sponsored basic science and clinical studies on stem cells. He currently has ongoing clinical trials using mesenchymal stem cells for treatment of hemorrhagic stroke and post-transplant lung rejection. His stem cell project is one of the few in the United States selected by NASA to be conducted at the International Space Station.