Mohammed Orloff, Ph.D., Joins UAMS Department of Epidemiology
| LITTLE ROCK – Mohammed Orloff, Ph.D., has been named associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).
Orloff’s research focuses on the interplay of multiple factors in the human genome that influence the risk for developing diseases, including cancers. Specifically, he is studying the genomic connection between cancer- and inflammatory-related pathways and the influence of unique ethnic-specific genetic markers on the development of disease in the presence of specific environmental exposures.
He has trained and conducted research in the fields of molecular biology, genetic epidemiology, genomics, epigenomics and bioinformatics. His primary areas of teaching are epidemiology, genetic/molecular epidemiology and genomics.
Orloff received post-graduate training in the area of functional genomics and proteomics at the Gesellschaft fur Biotechnologische Forrschung mbH (GBF) in Germany and the Center for Global Health and Diseases at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned his Ph.D. in genetic and molecular epidemiology from CWRU in 2005.
He served as a research assistant professor for five years at the Genomic Medicine Institute and as a genomics core manager and consultant for two years at the Genomics Core in the Lerner Research Institute, the research arm of the Cleveland Clinic.
In the 1990s, Orloff spent six years in Africa as a research scientist in molecular genetics and an advisor to several health projects.
UAMS is the state’s only health sciences university, with colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Health Professions and Public Health; a graduate school; a hospital; a main campus in Little Rock; a Northwest Arkansas regional campus in Fayetteville; a statewide network of regional campuses; and eight institutes: the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute, Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, Psychiatric Research Institute, Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging, Translational Research Institute, Institute for Digital Health & Innovation and the Institute for Community Health Innovation. UAMS includes UAMS Health, a statewide health system that encompasses all of UAMS’ clinical enterprise. UAMS is the only adult Level 1 trauma center in the state. UAMS has 3,275 students, 890 medical residents and fellows, and five dental residents. It is the state’s largest public employer with more than 12,000 employees, including 1,200 physicians who provide care to patients at UAMS, its regional campuses, Arkansas Children’s, the VA Medical Center and Baptist Health. Visit www.uams.edu or uamshealth.com. Find us on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), YouTube or Instagram.###