Editorial Board Member

Biography

Mohamed Zaiou is an Associate Professor of molecular biology and clinical biochemistry at The University of Lorraine, Nancy, France. He received his Ph.D. in 1993 from the University of Henri Poincaré, Nancy, France. He completed his 1st post-doctoral training at The Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia USA, and 2nd one at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Baltimore, MD USA. In January 1997, he got a position of Assistant Professor at The Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, to work on the molecular biology and genetics of cardiovascular diseases. In 2000, Dr. ZAIOU moved to The University of California at San Diego, USA, where he got interested into the concept of antimicrobial peptides and their development as natural antibiotics. In 2005, Dr. Zaiou joined The University of Lorraine, Nancy, France, where he teaches Molecular Biology, Genetics, Personalized medicine, and Biotechnology related to drugs, while he is pursuing his research activity on the genetics and epigenetics of metabolic diseases, in particular the development of biomarkers for preventing metabolic heart diseases (atherosclerosis, obesity, diabetes,…). Lately, he got interested in epigenetics of metabolic diseases in order to search for epigenetic marks of fatty liver disease- associated epigenetic changes that predict later risk of metabolic disease