Maitham Khajah
Kuwait University, Kuwait
Biography
Maitham Khajah has completed his B. Pharm degree from Faculty of Pharmacy, Kuwait University in 2003 and obtained his Ph.D degree (through a scholarship from Kuwait University) in December, 2009 from the University of Calgary, Canada (Gastrointestinal science & immunology). He is currently an Assistant Professor in Kuwait University, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics since January 2010. His research interest is to study new molecular targets for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and the mechanisms responsible for immune cell chemotaxis. He is also interested in studying the mechanism of cancer cell invasion and metastasis specifically by using various endocrine resistant breast cancer cell lines.
Abstract
Abstract : Anti-inflammatory effect of angiotensin 1-7 (Ang 1-7) in the mouse DSS colitis model