Dr. Shamma Rahman joined Manchester University as a faculty member in June 2024. Dr. Rahman earned her B.Sc. (Hons) and M.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. In 2018, she completed her Ph.D. in Cellular and Integrative Physiology from the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Following her doctoral studies, Dr. Rahman pursued postdoctoral research in neuro-immunology at Stanford University, where her work resulted in the identification of novel brain-homing immune cells in pediatric patients with neuropsychiatric disorder. Before arriving at Manchester, Dr. Rahman has served as a faculty member at San Francisco State University and San Jose State University. In her spare time, Dr. Rahman can be found whipping up some traditional Bangladeshi recipes in her kitchen, or cuddling with her kitty babies Zorro & Oreo, or busy updating her “Hummingbird Cottage” with her husband.

Areas of research interests:

Neuro-immunology; Pathophysiology of neuropsychiatric and related autoimmune disorders; Myeloid cell biology; Immune cell trafficking; Trained innate immunity

Research Publications:

1. Shamma S. Rahman; …& Elizabeth D. Mellins. Disease state-dependent myeloid cell phenotypes in pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome include a novel brain-homing monocyte subset. Brain, Behavior and Immunity (2024; submitted).
2. Isaac Melamed*; Shamma S. Rahman*; ...& Elizabeth D. Mellins. IVIg response in pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS) correlates with reduction in pro-inflammatory monocytes and neuropsychiatric measures. Frontiers in Immunology (2024; revised & re-submitted). (*shared first author)
3. Claudia Macaubas; Shamma S. Rahman; ...& Elizabeth D. Mellins. High dimensional analyses of circulating immune cells in Psoriatic Arthritis detect elevated phosphorylated STAT3. Frontiers in Immunology (2022).
4. Shamma S. Rahman; ...& Erika I. Boesen. EHD4 is a novel regulator of urinary water homeostasis. FASEB Journal (2017).
5. Shama S. Rahman & Erika I. Boesen. Outside the mainstream: novel collecting duct proteins regulating water balance. American Journal of Physiology- Renal Physiology (2016).