Inamul Haque

Inamul Haque was born on January 1, 1974 at Supaul Bazar in Darbhanga (India). Dr. Haque received his BSc (1994), MSc (1996) and B. Ed (1998) in Biosciences from Jamia Millia Islamia, a Central University in New Delhi. He received a Ph. D in 2005 under the supervision of Professor Faizan Ahmad, a great protein chemist. He then moved to USA in 2006 to join Dr. Mark T. Fisher’s lab at University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA. Currently, Dr. Haque is a Research Scientist at VA Medical Center, Kansas City, and has a joint appointment as an Assistant Professor in the University of Kansas Medical Center. He is particularly interested in the regulation and function of two of CCN family members, i.e., CCN1 and CCN5 in mediating epithelial to Mesenchymal transition and SHh signaling. An additional area of research in his lab is focused on the role of microRNAs (small non-coding RNAs) in the regulation of invasive phenotypes in breast as well as in pancreatic cancer.