Md Firoz Kabir, PhD

Post Doctoral Fellow, University of Maryland Baltimore

Research Fellow, Singapore Eye Research Institute (SERI)

Ph.D. in Molecular Biology

M.Sc. in Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology

Molecular Biology, Human Genetics, Ophthalmic Research, Cell Biology

1. Khan, S. Y., Ali, M., Kabir, F., Na, C. H., Delannoy, M., Ma, Y., Qiu, C., Costello, M. J., Hejtmancik, J. F. and Riazuddin, S. A. (2022). The role of FYCO1-dependent autophagy in lens fiber cell differentiation. Autophagy. 10.1080/15548627.2022.2025570. PMID: 35343376.
2. Irum, B., Kabir, F., Shoshany, N., Khan, S. Y., Rauf, B., Naeem, M. A., Qaiser, T. A., Riazuddin, S., Hejtmancik, J. F., and Riazuddin, S. A. (2022). A genomic deletion coupled with a fusion of CRYBB2-CRYBB2P1 is responsible for autosomal recessive congenital cataracts. Hum. Genome Var. 9(1):31. PMID: 36075891.
3. Li, L., Jiao, X., D'Atri, I., Ono, F., Nelson, R., Chan, C. C., Nakaya, N., Ma, Z., Ma, Y., Cai, X., Zhang, L., Lin, S., Hameed, A., Chioza, B. A., Hardy, H., Arno, G., Hull, S., Khan, M. I., Fasham, J., Harlalka, G. V., Michaelides, M., Moore, A. T., Coban Akdemir, Z. H., Jhangiani, S., Lupski, J. R., Cremers, F. P. M., Qamar, R., Salman, A., Chilton, J., Self, J., Ayyagari, R., Kabir, F., Naeem, M. A., Ali, M., Akram, J., Sieving, P. A., Riazuddin, S., Baple, E. L., Riazuddin, S. A., Crosby, A. H. and Hejtmancik, J. F. (2018). Mutation in the intracellular chloride channel CLCC1 associated with autosomal recessive retinitis pigmentosa. PLoS. Genet. 14(8): e1007504. PMID: 30157172.
4. Khan, S. Y., Vasanth, S., Kabir, F., Gottsch, J. D., Khan, A. O., Chaerkady, R., Lee, M. C., Leitch, C. C., Ma, Z., Laux, J., Villasmil, R., Khan, S. N., Riazuddin, S., Akram, J., Cole, R. N., Talbot, C. C., Pourmand, N., Zaghloul, N. A., Hejtmancik, J. F. and Riazuddin, S. A. (2016). FOXE3 contributes to Peters anomaly through transcriptional regulation of an autophagy-associated protein termed DNAJB1. Nat. Commun. 7: 10953. PMID: 27218149.
5. Kabir, F., Ullah, I., Ali, S., Gottsch, A. D., Naeem, M. A., Assir, M. Z., Khan, S. N., Akram, J., Riazuddin, S., Ayyagari, R., Hejtmancik, J. F. and Riazuddin, S. A. (2016). Loss of function mutations in RP1 are responsible for retinitis pigmentosa in consanguineous familial cases. Mol. Vis. 22: 610-625. PMID: 27307693.