Sarfaraz Ahmad, PhD
- Assistant Professor, General Surgery

Sarfaraz Ahmad, PhD
- Education
- BS, Aligarh Muslim University J.N. Medical College - India, 1989
- MS, Aligarh Muslim University J.N. Medical College - India, 1991
- PhD, Aligarh Muslim University J.N. Medical College - India, 1996
- Fellowship
- Mercer University - Southern School, 2005
- Wake Forest University School of Medicine, 2008
- Wake Forest University School of Medicine, 2011
- Wake Forest University School of Medicine, 2011
- Memberships
- Oxygen Society
- Society of Toxicology
- Toxicology Letters
- American Physiological Society
- American Physiology
- AHA - High Blood Pressure Research Council
- Positions
- Assistant Professor, General Surgery
- Departments and Affiliations
- General Surgery
Research
- G-Protein-Coupled Estrogen Receptor Agonist G1 Improves Diastolic Function and Attenuates Cardiac Renin-Angiotensin System Activation in Estrogen-Deficient Hypertensive Rats. da Silva JS, Sun X, Ahmad S, Wang H, Sudo RT, Varagic J, Ferrario CM, Zapata-Sudo G, Groban L. J. Cardiovasc. Pharmacol. 2019 11; 74(5):443-452.
- Estrogen modulates the differential expression of cardiac myocyte chymase isoforms and diastolic function. Wang H, Sun X, Ahmad S, Su J, Ferrario CM, Groban L. Mol. Cell. Biochem. 2019 Jun; 456(1-2):85-93.
- Chymase inhibitors for the treatment of cardiac diseases: a patent review (2010-2018). Ahmad S, Ferrario CM. Expert Opin Ther Pat. 2018 11; 28(11):755-764.
- Critical role of the chymase/angiotensin-(1-12) axis in modulating cardiomyocyte contractility. Li T, Zhang X, Cheng HJ, Zhang Z, Ahmad S, Varagic J, Li W, Cheng CP, Ferrario CM. Int. J. Cardiol. 2018 08; 264:137-144.
- Blunting of estrogen modulation of cardiac cellular chymase/RAS activity and function in SHR. Ahmad S, Sun X, Lin M, Varagic J, Zapata-Sudo G, Ferrario CM, Groban L, Wang H. J. Cell. Physiol. 2018 04; 233(4):3330-3342.