Chand, Hiten Graduate Faculty

Positions
Chand Lab

biography

  • Hitendra Chand serves as an Associate Professor (tenured) and leads the Chand laboratory. As a Director of the Office of Research Support, he oversees the coordination and enhancement of extracurricular research opportunities for medical students of the FIU College of Medicine. In his concurrent role, Chand also oversees the academic and professional growth of graduate students under the Biomedical Science PhD Program. With more than 25 years of experience in cellular and molecular biology, his research is characterized by interdisciplinary collaborations across various colleges and institutions in the field of translational medicine.

    Prior to FIU, Chand conducted research in respiratory biology at the Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute in Albuquerque, NM. He investigated the pathophysiology following environmental exposures to tobacco smoke, allergens, and viruses, and the molecular mechanisms involved in the programmed cell death pathways and airway inflammatory responses.

    During his postdoctoral training at the University of New Mexico Health Science Center, his research helped identify the role of proteinase inhibitors in blood coagulation biochemistry and in cancer biology. At the Center for Infectious Diseases and Immunology at UNM School of Medicine, Chand worked on biology-based studies to understand the immunobiology of allergic asthma and the pathogenesis of highly contagious respiratory infections requiring BSL4/ABSL4 containment.

research interests

  •     Innate Mucosal Immunity
        Cell Survival Pathways
        Long Noncoding RNAs
        Pathophysiology of Aging-associated Diseases
        Inhalational Toxicology & Infections

selected scholarly works & creative activities

full name

  • Hitendra Chand

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