Jahid Ferdous, Ph.D.

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Postdoctoral Fellow, DILIsym Services, Inc.

Dr. Jahid Ferdous is a postdoctoral fellow at DILIsym Services, Inc. He joined DILIsym Services as a postdoctoral fellow to work on the DILI-sim Initiative modeling team in January 2016. Dr. Ferdous works on the computational modeling of drug-induced liver injury (DILI) due to mitochondrial DNA depletion by hepatotoxic drugs, and is developing a model for adaptive biogenesis. He is a member of American Society for Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics and of the International Society of Pharmacometrics.

Prior to DILIsym Services, Dr. Ferdous worked as a postdoctoral fellow at The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences, and as an adjunct faculty and postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of South Carolina.

Dr. Ferdous received his bachelor of science in chemical engineering from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 2005, and a master of science in chemical and biomedical engineering from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore in 2009. He then moved to the United States where he completed his Ph.D. in biomedical engineering at the University of South Carolina in 2014. His dissertation was focused on identifying performance criteria of fully bioresorbable scaffolds for safe endovascular application.