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Nice Vice Chair for Research Appointed
Congratulations to Rakesh Patel, Ph.D., Professor, Molecular & Cellular Pathology, on his appointment as Vice Chair of Research, UAB Department of Pathology. Dr. Patel held the interim position for more than a year. In that time, he helped to coordinate and host a Research Retreat for the Department. The program to fund translational research pilot awards stemmed from that initial retreat, and the event will take place again this August.
Dr. Patel received his Ph.D. from the University of Essex, UK in 1996. He moved to the U.S. to pursue post-doctoral studies at UAB in 1997, and joined the faculty of the Department of Pathology as an instructor in 1999. Currently he is Director of the UAB Center for Free Radical Biology.
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He maintains an internationally recognized research program, having engaged in Free Radical Research for more than 20 years. Dr. Patel has published more than 200 articles, reviews, book chapters and editorials. He has organized meetings and symposia focused on oxidative stress and nitric oxide, and multiple forums including co-chairing the Oxygen Radical Gordon Research Conference in 2016. He is also a fellow of the Society for Redox Biology and Medicine (SfRBM), from which he received a Mentoring Excellence Award in 2016. He has served on the Editorial Board of FRBM for 15 years; served as Associate Editor for AJP-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology, reviews editor for the Nitric Oxide journal between 2015 and 2018, and is currently reviews editor for the Redox Biology Journal.
“Dr. Patel’s contributions to bolster the Department’s research portfolio, collaborating with other centers and departments on campus, continue to improve the research environment in Pathology,” Netto said. RAKESH PATEL, PHD
Congratulations to Rakesh Patel, Ph.D., Professor, Molecular & Cellular Pathology, on his appointment as Vice Chair of Research, UAB Department of Pathology. Dr. Patel held the interim position for more than a year. In that time, he helped to coordinate and host a Research Retreat for the Department. The program to fund translational research pilot awards stemmed from that initial retreat, and the event will take place again this August.
Dr. Patel received his Ph.D. from the University of Essex, UK in 1996. He moved to the U.S. to pursue post-doctoral studies at UAB in 1997, and joined the faculty of the Department of Pathology as an instructor in 1999. Currently he is Director of the UAB Center for Free Radical Biology.
