Hamid Rabb, M.D.
Dr. Rabb grew up in Montreal where he attended medical school at McGill University in an accelerated 5 year program with an entrance scholarship. After internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the UCLA School of Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, he completed a clinical nephrology fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. This was followed in the same institutions by basic research training in leukocyte biology/immunology. Dr. Rabb is currently Physician Director of the Johns Hopkins Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program, and Associate Professor of Medicine. He is also Graduate Faculty in Cell and Molecular Medicine. He frequently serves on NIH study sections, has served on the American Society of Nephrology program committee, and was past chair of scientific studies for the American Society of Transplantation.
Clinical interest: kidney transplantation, acute renal failure
Research interests: kidney ischemic injury, lymphocytes, organ cross talk, biomarker discovery
Selected Publications
- Rabb H, Sharma CP, Michishita M, Brown D, Arnaout MA. Regulation of complement receptor type 3 (CD11b/CD18): function and internalization by the cytoplasmic tail of its ß-subunit (CD18). J Immunology 150:4019-4030, 1993
- Rabb H, Mendiola CC, Dietz J, Saba SR, Issekutz TB, Abanilla F, Bonventre J, Ramirez G. Role of CD11a & CD11b in ischemic acute renal failure in rats. Am J Physiol Renal 267:F1052-1058, 1994
- Rabb H, Martin JG. An emerging paradigm shift on the role of leukocyte adhesion molecules in inflammation. J Clin Invest 100:2937-8,1999
- Kramer A, Postler G, Salhab K, Mendez C, Carey L, Rabb H. Renal ischemia/reperfusion leads to macrophage-mediated increase in pulmonary vascular permeability. Kidney Int 55:2362-7, 1999
- Rabb H, Daniels F, O’Donnel M, Haq M, Saba S, Keane W, Tang W. Pathophysiologic role of T cells in renal ischemia reperfusion injury in mice. Am J Physiol Renal 279:F525-531, 2000
- Nemoto T, Yokota N, Keane W, Rabb H. Recombinant erythropoietin rapidly treats anemia in ischemic acute renal failure. Kidney Int 59:246-251, 2001
- Burne M, Daniels F, Elgandour A, Muyeddi S, Colvin R, O’Donnell M, Rabb H. Identification of the CD4+ T cell as a major modulator of renal ischemia reperfusion injury. J Clin Invest 108:1283-90, 2001
- Burne-Taney M, Ascon D, Yokota N, Racusen L, Baldwin W, Rabb H. B cell deficiency confers protection from renal ischemia reperfusion injury. J Immunol 171:3210-5, 2003
- Craem J, Brady H, Rabb H. Cell-matrix and cell-cell interactions in the kidney. Ed. Brenner BM: Brenner & Rector’s The Kidney, Saunders. 2004
- Rabb H. Paracrine and differentiation mechanism underlying stem cell therapy for the damaged kidney. Am J Physiol Renal 289:F29-30, 2003
