Member Name: Muhammad Hamid Zaman

Title: Assistant Professor of Life Sciences
(Joint appointment with University of Texas at Austin)

Qualifications: Ph.D., University of Chicago
B.S., Arkansas Tech University

Phone: + 01 (512) 471 4205

Fax: + 01 (512) 471 0616

E-Mail: mhzaman@mail.utexas.edu

Research Interests: Biomedical Engineering and Cell and Molecular Biology

Biography: Dr. Muhammad Zaman earned his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of Chicago in 2003. Between 2003 and 2006, he was a post doctoral fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined the faculty of The University of Texas at Austin in 2006. He directs the Laboratory for Molecular and Cellular Dynamics.

Dr. Zaman uses hybrid multiscale computational and experimental methods to understand how cells interact with their native environments. He uses computational approaches, rooted in statistical mechanics and biomechanics, combined with high resolution imaging to understand the molecular and cellular basis of a number of physiological maladies, including cancer. In particular, he is in adhesion, migration and invasion of tumor cells at the system-level. He is also researching how small mechanical and chemical perturbations in the cellular environment affect the cell signaling machinery and enhance or decrease the magnitude of a number of biological processes. His lab collaborates with the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, as well as a number of research groups at UT Austin.