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On behalf of the Board of Regents, I am pleased to present a KUDOS Award to Hamid Shahshahan, research technologist in the Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology at UNMC.

Hamid’s nominators praise his innovative skills, which have allowed him to standardize a trio of new lab techniques – one that is important in researching heart failure, another related to proteomics, and a third that is critical to understanding the effects of diabetic mothers on congenital heart defects.

He also standardized the surgical implantation of insulin pumps in diabetic mice, a technique that is critical in researching the role of insulin in diabetic cardiomyopathy at the molecular level.

Beyond innovative, Hamid’s nominators describe him as honest; polite but firm when needed; and a team player with strong ethics. Said one colleague: “I see a dedicated scientist in him and a helpful citizen. We need more people like him in the field of science.”

Working in the lab of Dr. Paras Mishra, Hamid is responsible for inspections by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee and the Institutional Biosafety Committee. He is quick to assist new trainees, respects diversity and other employees, and is admired for his lab skills, work ethic and adherence to safety rules.

“Hamid does the highest quality of work and does not compromise to achieve top quality work,” a colleague said.

In the past four years, he has published five co-authored papers, including the recent second author publication in the Frontiers in Physiology journal. He also has developed novel ways of systematically arranging the lab’s inventory of antibodies, primers and tissue. And, he has independently overseen the difficult procedure of crossbreeding different strains of mice to create a new strain.

Please join me in thanking Hamid for his dedicated service and unwavering commitment to research excellence, UNMC and his colleagues in the Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology.