About Dr Amina Rahman
Assistant Professor of Physiology
Understanding how the heart adapts to chronic stress
My research programme sits at the intersection of integrative physiology and translational medicine. Over the past decade I have built a lab that asks how sustained haemodynamic load reshapes cardiac tissue at the cellular level, and what that means for patients living with hypertension. Alongside the research, I teach systems physiology to medical and graduate students, and I care a great deal about making that teaching evidence-based, accessible and humane.
Academic appointments
Positions held across institutions and laboratories.
Assistant Professor of Physiology
Example University School of Medicine
Independent laboratory studying cardiac remodelling. Course director for systems physiology; supervises four graduate students and two postdoctoral fellows.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Northfield Institute of Cardiovascular Science
Developed the aortic-banding recovery model that underpins the lab's current NIH-funded programme. Awarded an AHA postdoctoral fellowship.
Academic background
Degrees and training that shaped this work.
PhD, Integrative Physiology
Riverside University
Dissertation: Shear-stress signalling in the arterial endothelium. Advised by Prof. H. Nakamura.
MSc, Physiology
University of Dhaka
Graduated first in class; thesis on baroreflex sensitivity.
BSc (Hons), Biochemistry
University of Dhaka
What colleagues say
Kind words from people I've worked with.
“Amina asks the questions the rest of us have quietly avoided because they are hard to measure. Her doctoral work reshaped how our group thinks about shear sensing.”
“A rigorous experimentalist who is equally comfortable arguing about model assumptions. Our joint papers are better for both halves of that.”