Dr Safi Rehman is an infection biologist whose research focuses on how bacterial pathogens manipulate host cell signalling during infection. He completed his PhD at Queen’s University Belfast, where he developed an infection-driven pressure myography model to study Klebsiella pneumoniae-induced vascular dysfunction. This work formed the foundation for studying vascular function in the context of systemic infections.

Safi is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Infectious Diseases at King’s College London, where his work centres on how Salmonella manipulates host immune signalling pathways to modulate inflammatory responses. This work takes a deeper look into how Salmonella interferes in host cell Ca2+ signalling pathways in human macrophages and epithelial cells, with a particular emphasis on calmodulin-dependent kinase II (CaMKII) to modulate CaMKII-dependent interferon production.

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