Dr. Rasha Hammamieh, Ph.D., Director, Medical Readiness Systems Biology, Walter Reed Army Institute Of Research - Molecular-Based Solutions For Military-Relevant Health Performance, Resilience And Readiness

Dr. Rasha Hammamieh, Ph.D. is Director, Medical Readiness Systems Biology (MRSB), at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research ( https://wrair.health.mil/Biomedical-Research/Center-for-Military-Psychiatry-and-Neuroscience/Medical-Readiness-Systems-Biology/ ) where her lab seeks to apply integrative biology approaches to diseases of military relevance, such as post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury pain and biological responses to polytrauma and austere environments (heat stress, acute mountain sickness, hypoxia, radiation and microgravity). 

The majority of Dr. Hammamieh’s work aims to provide an understanding and develop countermeasures for diseases and injuries in support of service members.  

Currently, the MRSB lab is assessing the effect of spaceflight conditions onboard the International Space Station (ISS) on health and disease, and Dr. Hammamieh’s team has multiple biological investigations sponsored by the ISS National Laboratory examining the effects of microgravity on the healing of bone and skin wounds. 

Dr. Hammamieh has authored and co-authored more than 145 publications, three book chapters, and is a co-inventor of the patent “Biomarkers of Immune Dysfunction in Response to Chronic Stress.” 

Dr. Hammamieh earned a pharmacy degree from Damascus University, Damascus, Syria and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Georgetown University.

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