Mahmud Barmada, known as Michael Barmada, (1969–2016) was an American geneticist. He was a Distinguished Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

Career

Barmada worked at the Institute for Personalized Medicine as associate director and co-director of the Center for Simulation and Modeling. He held a secondary appointment in the Department of Biomedical Informatics. In 1991, he graduated from

Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...

with a bachelor's degree in chemistry and biological sciences with a minor in piano composition; in 1993, he earned a master's in molecular genetics at

Johns Hopkins Johns Hopkins (May 19, 1795 – December 24, 1873) was an American merchant, investor, and philanthropist. Born on a plantation, he left his home to start a career at the age of 17, and settled in Baltimore, Maryland where he remained for most ...

; and in 1999, he earned a PhD in human genetics with a concentration in statistical and computational genetics at Pitt. Professor Dan Weeks said, “He did more than his fair share, freely and of his own initiative, to the benefit of the department and the whole school.” Weeks said Barmada was among the university's first researchers to tackle next-generation sequencing. “He was asked so much for help that he created and taught a workshop on it.” According to Google Scholar, Barmada has an h-index of 56. According to the Scopus he has an h-index of 48.

Selected papers

* A Genome-Wide Association Study Identifies IL23R as an Inflammatory Bowel Disease Gene * Genome-wide association defines more than 30 distinct susceptibility loci for Crohn's disease * Genome-wide association study identifies new susceptibility loci for Crohn disease and implicates autophagy in disease pathogenesis

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Barmada, Michael 1969 births 2016 deaths American geneticists Barmada family Carnegie Mellon University alumni Johns Hopkins University alumni University of Pittsburgh alumni University of Pittsburgh faculty