Sofiyan Saleem, PhD

Background
Dr. Sofiyan Saleem is a Research Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix. His research focuses on cerebral ischemic injury that arises from stroke and cardiac arrest.

Dr. Saleem received a post-Ph.D. training in Stroke research at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. After completing a stroke fellowship in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins, he worked as a staff scientist at Neuroscience and Aging Research Center at the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla, CA. In 2017, he became a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix, AZ. Dr. Saleem has published extensively and has presented his work internationally at numerous conferences and symposia. He is a member of American Heart Association and the Society for Neuroscience.

Additional Training
Post-doctoral Fellowship: Johns Hopkins University SOM, Baltimore, MD, 2003-2009, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine.

Research Summary
Dr. Saleem is conducting basic and preclinical translational research in the areas of cerebral ischemic injury that arises from stroke and cardiac arrest. His lab uses the thromboembolic and filament model of transient middle cerebral artery occlusion to investigate physiologic and pathophysiologic mechanisms that underlie stroke. He focused on utilizing novel approaches to treat diseases such as stroke, venous thrombosis and myocardial infarction. As an academic researcher, Dr. Saleem is testing the alpha 2 antiplasmin and MMP-9 monoclonal antibodies for the treatment of ischemic stroke, brain swelling and hemorrhagic transformation to find a cure of this devastating disease and translate the results from bench side to bedside.

American Heart Association
Society for Neuroscience
International Society for Stroke Models
International Brain Research Organization