Dr. Taufiq Rahman

Biography

Taufiq Rahman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Cambridge, specializing in the structure, function, and chemico-biological regulation of ion channels. He completed his Bachelor and Master degrees in Pharmacy at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, where he also explored research interests in ethnopharmacology and bioactive natural products. In 2003, he pursued an MSc in Molecular Pharmacology at the University of Manchester as a Commonwealth Scholar, focusing on the signaling pathways associated with ion channels. His PhD work, supervised by Professor Colin Taylor, investigated the regulatory aspects and fundamental biophysical properties of inositol-1,4,5 trisphosphate receptors at the single-channel level, which he completed in 2008. After post-doctoral work starting in 2009, Rahman became a Drapers’ Research Fellow at Pembroke College and secured the Early Career Research Award from the Signal Transduction Biochemical Society in 2011. He worked as a Royal Society University Research Fellow until 2017 and became a University Lecturer in 2016. In 2022, he was promoted to University Associate Professor.

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