Dr Rami Al Batran
Faculty of Pharmacy
University of Montreal
2940, chemin de Polytechnique
Montreal, QC H3T 1J4
Biographical Sketch
Dr. Al Batran received his bachelor’s degree in pharmacy from the Arab International University, Syria, in 2009. In 2014, he completed his PhD in cardiovascular pharmacology with Dr. Fouad Al Bayaty at the University Technology Mara, Malaysia, then he moved to Edmonton to train with Dr. John Ussher as a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Alberta. In 2020, Dr. Al Batran joined the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Montreal as an Assistant Professor to start his own lab. Dr. Al Batran’s research program primarily focusing on how obesity-induced alterations in energy metabolism, and how targeting energy metabolism may be a novel approach to counteract obesity-related diseases such as type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Research Interests
The regulation of energy metabolism has had a resurgence of interest in the last decade (likely due to the obesity epidemic) and this field of investigation is now at the forefront of modern research topics. Thus, our research goals are to determine whether modifying energy metabolism is a druggable target for the treatment of obesity-related diseases such as type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Our lab uses experimental models of obesity to identify key genes/proteins that become altered during obesity, and utilizes mouse genetics techniques and pharmacological tools to modify these genes and alleviate the numerous adverse consequences of obesity.