Team Members

Ruhul Abid, MD, PhD – Principal Investigator

Ruhul Abid, MD, PhD is Associate Professor of Brown University Warren Alpert Medical School and Principal Investigator at the Cardiovascular Research Center (CVRC), Cardiothoracic Surgery Division at Rhode Island Hospital.

Dr. Abid received his MD from Dhaka Medical College with special training on hypertension and related diseases. He also served as the Project Leader of a PHC (Global Health) project with special emphasis on communicable and non-communicable diseases including cardiovascular and maternal health care in Bangladesh. Dr. Abid received his PhD in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry from the Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Japan, and did his postdoctoral training in breast cancer at the LSU Medical Center, LA, USA. He then joined Harvard Medical School and completed a Fellowship in Vascular Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He began his career at Harvard Medical School as an Instructor in Medicine in 2002, rising to the rank of Assistant Professor in 2006. He joined Brown Medical School as Assistant Professor in 2011 and has established his vascular biology lab at the CVRC of Rhode Island Hospital. He has been serving on the Medical Faculty Executive Council of Alpert Medical School since 2012.

Dr. Abid has combined careers in research on vascular biology, cardiovascular diseases, and teaching of graduate students. Basic science research interests include mechanisms of coronary circulation in health and disease (e.g. myocardial ischemia), signal transduction in vascular endothelial cell, and effects of reactive oxygen species on vascular/endothelial function and angiogenesis. He has published original research articles in many peer-reviewed journals. He has been continuously supported by research grants from the American Heart Association and NIH since 2004. In recognition of his research achievements, Dr. Abid was honored by the American Heart Association with the prestigious Werner Risau New Investigator Award in Vascular Biology in 2011. Dr. Abid is also the recipient of the 6th annual Young Investigator Award in Thrombosis from the ATVB, American Heart Association in 2005. He has served as a member of the study sections for the American Heart Association, Association for International Cancer Research (AICR), and NIH (adhoc- VCMB). He has been serving as a full member of the Lipids, Thrombosis, and Vascular Wall Biology-Clinical (LTVWB-Clinical) Study Section since 2008. Dr. Abid has mentored many residents, postdoctoral fellows, medical and undergraduate students during his tenure at HMS and Brown Alpert Medical School.

Ruhul Abid has been utilizing his extensive experience in both research and training to advance cardiovascular medicine and research.

Rayane Brinck Teixeira, MS, PhD – Post-doc

Rayane is studying the roles of sub-cellular oxidants/reactive oxygen species (ROS) in coronary vascular endothelium in myocardial ischemia. She is using both in vitro human coronary artery endothelial cells (EC) and in vivo animal model of myocardial infarction (LAD ligation) to modulate sub-cellular ROS in ECs to improve post-infarct angiogenesis and cardiac function.

Vivian Fuguhura de Lima, PhD Student

Feyza Achilova, BS/MD Student

Feyza is a Senior at Brown University studying Economics and is an MD candidate in the in the PLME Program at Warren Alpert Medical School. Clinically, she is interested in Interventional and Surgical specialities within Pediatrics. At Brown, she was a part of the Women’s Varsity Fencing team and a volunteer at the Hasbro Children’s Hospital. In her free time, Feyza enjoys playing the violin, time outdoors, and reading.

Keertana Yalamanchili, BS/MD Student

Yujin Kim, Undergraduate Student

Yujin is a member of the Class of 2027 at Brown University, concentrating in Health and Human Biology and Visual Arts on the pre-medical track. With a strong interest in physiology and the surgical field, she joined the lab as an intern at the beginning of 2025. Outside of Academia, Yujin volunteers with the Healing Arts division at Hasbro Children’s Hospital, where she engages in art-making with pediatric patients.