Homa Majd, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Cellular Molecular Pharmacology
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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• PhD Biological Sciences University of Cambridge 2016
• BSc Biotechnology University of Tehran 2012

Publications (15)

Top publication keywords:
Membrane Transport ProteinsMutation, MissenseUbiquinoneCitric AcidSterolsComputer SimulationTemperatureMitochondrial ProteinsBiological AssayAdenosine DiphosphateEnteric Nervous SystemDiabetes MellitusAnion Transport ProteinsAndrogensDiabetic Neuropathies

• A call for a unified and multimodal definition of cellular identity in the enteric nervous system.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2024 Majd H, Cesiulis A, Samuel RM, Richter MN, Elder N, Guyer RA, Hao MM, Stamp LA, Goldstein AM, Fattahi F
• Modeling enteric glia development, physiology and disease using human pluripotent stem cells.
  Neuroscience letters 2023 Scantlen MD, Majd H, Fattahi F
• Deriving Schwann cells from hPSCs enables disease modeling and drug discovery for diabetic peripheral neuropathy.
  Cell stem cell 2023 Majd H, Amin S, Ghazizadeh Z, Cesiulis A, Arroyo E, Lankford K, Majd A, Farahvashi S, Chemel AK, Okoye M, Scantlen MD, Tchieu J, Calder EL, Le Rouzic V, Shibata B, Arab A, Goodarzi H, Pasternak G, …
• Generation of Schwann cell derived melanocytes from hPSCs identifies pro-metastatic factors in melanoma.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2023 Samuel RM, Navickas A, Maynard A, Gaylord EA, Garcia K, Bhat S, Majd H, Richter MN, Elder N, Le D, Nguyen P, Shibata B, Llabata ML, Selleri L, Laird DJ, Darmanis S, Goodarzi H, Fattahi F
• Androgens increase excitement in brain organoid research.
  Cell stem cell 2022 Samuel RM, Majd H, Richter MN, Fattahi F

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• Androgen Signaling Regulates SARS-CoV-2 Receptor Levels and Is Associated with Severe COVID-19 Symptoms in Men.
  Cell stem cell 2020 Samuel RM, Majd H, Richter MN, Ghazizadeh Z, Zekavat SM, Navickas A, Ramirez JT, Asgharian H, Simoneau CR, Bonser LR, Koh KD, Garcia-Knight M, Tassetto M, Sunshine S, Farahvashi S, Kalantari A, Liu W,…
• Androgen Regulates SARS-CoV-2 Receptor Levels and Is Associated with Severe COVID-19 Symptoms in Men.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2020 Ghazizadeh Z, Majd H, Richter M, Samuel R, Zekavat SM, Asgharian H, Farahvashi S, Kalantari A, Ramirez J, Zhao H, Natarajan P, Goodarzi H, Fattahi F
• BCAA catabolism in brown fat controls energy homeostasis through SLC25A44.
  Nature 2019 Yoneshiro T, Wang Q, Tajima K, Matsushita M, Maki H, Igarashi K, Dai Z, White PJ, McGarrah RW, Ilkayeva OR, Deleye Y, Oguri Y, Kuroda M, Ikeda K, Li H, Ueno A, Ohishi M, Ishikawa T, Kim K, Chen Y, …
• Screening of candidate substrates and coupling ions of transporters by thermostability shift assays.
  eLife 2018 Majd H, King MS, Palmer SM, Smith AC, Elbourne LD, Paulsen IT, Sharples D, Henderson PJ, Kunji ER
• Pathogenic mutations of the human mitochondrial citrate carrier SLC25A1 lead to impaired citrate export required for lipid, dolichol, ubiquinone and sterol synthesis.
  Biochimica et biophysica acta. Bioenergetics 2017 Majd H, King MS, Smith AC, Kunji ERS
• Recurrent De Novo Dominant Mutations in SLC25A4 Cause Severe Early-Onset Mitochondrial Disease and Loss of Mitochondrial DNA Copy Number.
  American journal of human genetics 2016 Thompson K, Majd H, Dallabona C, Reinson K, King MS, Alston CL, He L, Lodi T, Jones SA, Fattal-Valevski A, Fraenkel ND, Saada A, Haham A, Isohanni P, Vara R, Barbosa IA, Simpson MA, Deshpande C, …
• Corrigendum to "The transport mechanism of the mitochondrial ADP/ATP carrier" [Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1863/10 (2016) 2379-2393].
  Biochimica et biophysica acta 2016 Kunji ER, Aleksandrova A, King MS, Majd H, Ashton VL, Cerson E, Springett R, Kibalchenko M, Tavoulari S, Crichton PG, Ruprecht JJ
• Recurrent De Novo Dominant Mutations in SLC25A4 Cause Severe Early-Onset Mitochondrial Disease and Loss of Mitochondrial DNA Copy Number.
  American journal of human genetics 2016 Thompson K, Majd H, Dallabona C, Reinson K, King MS, Alston CL, He L, Lodi T, Jones SA, Fattal-Valevski A, Fraenkel ND, Saada A, Haham A, Isohanni P, Vara R, Barbosa IA, Simpson MA, Deshpande C, …
• The transport mechanism of the mitochondrial ADP/ATP carrier.
  Biochimica et biophysica acta 2016 Kunji ER, Aleksandrova A, King MS, Majd H, Ashton VL, Cerson E, Springett R, Kibalchenko M, Tavoulari S, Crichton PG, Ruprecht JJ
• The mitochondrial dicarboxylate and 2-oxoglutarate carriers do not transport glutathione.
  FEBS letters 2015 Booty LM, King MS, Thangaratnarajah C, Majd H, James AM, Kunji ER, Murphy MP