Sami J Barmada

Sami Barmada was born in Pittsburgh, PA, USA in 1976 to a prominent Syrian family . He is the son of Bicher Barmada, Thoracic Surgeon and Mamdouha Ahdab-Barmada, Pathologist. His grandfather was Mahmud Barmada (1916 -1999) and his great grandfather was Mustafa Bey Barmada (the former Governor-General of the State of Aleppo).

Sami Barmada obtained his BS from University of Pittsburgh. He received his PhD in the Medical Scientist Training Program at Washington University. And he did his neurology residency, at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) school of medicine.[2]

Barmada was awarded the Young Physician Scientist Award from the American Society for Clinical Investigation in 2014. He is also the recipient of the inaugural Angela Dobson and Lyndon Welch Research Professorship at the University of Michigan. While at the University of Pittsburgh, PA, he received a University Scholarship and the College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Merit Award. At Washington University in St. Louis, he earned the Richard and Mildred Poletsky Award from the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, the Irwin Levy Award for Excellence in Neurology and Neurological Surgery, and was named a Spencer & Ann Olin Medical Scientist Fellow.[2]

According to Google Scholar, Barmada has an h-index of 30 [3] according to the Scopus one of 25.[4] He is a fellow member of the American Neurological Association since 2003, and a fellow member of American Association of Neurology since 1997 and a fellow member of Society for Neuroscience since 2002.

• "Cytoplasmic mislocalization of TDP-43 is toxic to neurons and enhanced by a mutation associated with familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2021-08-24.
• "Autophagy induction enhances TDP43 turnover and survival in neuronal ALS models". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2021-08-24.
• "Progranulin deficiency promotes neuroinflammation and neuron loss following toxin-induced injury". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2021-08-24.
• "RAN translation at C9orf72-associated repeat expansions is selectively enhanced by the integrated stress response". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2021-08-24.
• "Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2021-08-24.
• "Astrocyte pathology and the absence of non-cell autonomy in an induced pluripotent stem cell model of TDP-43 proteinopathy". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2021-08-24.
• "Mutant induced pluripotent stem cell lines recapitulate aspects of TDP-43 proteinopathies and reveal cell-specific vulnerability". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2021-08-24.
• "Amelioration of toxicity in neuronal models of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis by hUPF1". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2021-08-24.
• "GFP-tagged prion protein is correctly localized and functionally active in the brains of transgenic mice". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2021-08-24.
• "Pathogenic TARDBP mutations in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia: disease-associated pathways". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2021-08-24.

• Sami J Barmada publications indexed by Google Scholar