Mohammad Shamsul Ola
King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Biography
Mohammad Shamsul Ola is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He completed his Postdoctoral Training at Medical College of Georgia and Pennsylvania State University, USA and subsequently joined as a Faculty Member at King Saud University in 2008. He is an established Scientist working in the research area of cellular and molecular mechanism of diabetic retinopathy. He has made fundamental discoveries that have greatly added to our understanding of vision impairment caused by diabetes. His research on altered metabolism in diabetes has contributed a thorough understanding of the molecular causes of impairment in the early stages of diabetic retinopathy. His major area of research interest includes molecular mechanism of neurodegeneration, and oxidative stress and neuroprotection in diabetic retinopathy.