Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences

Profile

Academic Duties

Undergraduate:

Level 1 and 3: Laboratory practicals

Level 2: Neuroscience, Endocrine and Gastrointestinal Pharmacology; Inflammation, Inflammatory Diseases and Infective Organisms

Level 3: Cellular and Molecular Drug Targets; Final Year Project supervisor (Unit co-ordinator)

Pharmacology and MPharm Personal Tutor

Interprofessional Learning Facilitator

Postgraduate:

MSc Biomedicine: Deputy Course Leader for Programme, Molecular medicine (Unit coordinator), Scientific Research Methods, Clinical Biochemistry, Project supervisor

PhD student supervisor

Postgraduate Journal Club leader 

Examiner for PhD Major Review and Thesis

Academic lead - IBBS meetings and events

External memberships/posts

The Biochemical Society

European Association for Cancer Research

Regular reviewer for the following journals: Am J Physiol, Cell Biol Int.

Research interests/supervision opportunities

1) The Gas6-Axl ligand-receptor system and its dysfunction in multiple sclerosis (MS) and brain tumours

2)  The Tensin intracellular protein family and their roles in human cancer and in neuronal/glial cell biology
 
Full-time project supervision: IBBS PhD student, ERASMUS internship students (University of Furtwangen, Germany), undergraduate Pharmacology summer bursary student. 
 
Leader of Cellular Signalling group within Cellular and Molecular Medicine Division of Institute of Biomedical and Biomolecular Science (IBBS)

Current External Collaborations

Prof. Börje Ljungberg (Umeå University, Sweden), Prof. C. Oliver Hanemann (Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, Plymouth), Prof. Sergio Barlati (University of Brescia, Italy), Dr Samuel Boateng, University of Reading.

Funding/Research Grants

IBBS 

MS Society

Headcase Cancer TRust

Lord Dowding Fund 

Recent Publications

More recent publications

Publications Before 2006

1. Hafizi S, Gustafsson A, Stenhoff J and Dahlbäck B. The Ran binding protein RanBPM interacts with Axl and Sky receptor tyrosine kinases. Int J Biochem Cell Biol 37:2344-2356 (2005).
2. Hafizi S, Ibraimi F and Dahlbäck B. C1-TEN is a negative regulator of the Akt/PKB intracellular signaling pathway and inhibits cell survival, proliferation and migration. FASEB J 19:971-973 (2005).
3. Balogh I, Hafizi S, Stenhoff J, Strandberg K and Dahlbäck B. Analysis of Gas6 in human platelets and plasma. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 25:1280-1286 (2005).

Reviews

1. Hafizi S and Dahlbäck B. Gas6 and protein S – vitamin K-dependent ligands for the Axl receptor tyrosine kinase subfamily. FEBS J 273:5231-5244 (2006).
2. Hafizi S and Dahlbäck B. Signalling and functional diversity within the Axl subfamily of receptor tyrosine kinases. Cytokine Growth Factor Rev 17:295-304 (2006).