TREBAK LABORATORY

Mohamed “Mo” Trebak was born in Morocco and completed his graduate studies in the department of Pathology at the University of Liège, in Wallonia, Belgium. He then moved to the Wistar Institute of Philadelphia as a postdoctoral fellow and completed a second postdoc at the National Institutes of Health/NIEHS where he trained in calcium signaling in non-excitable cells. In 2007, he joined Albany Medical College, NY as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2010. In 2015, he moved to the Pennsylvania State University Medical Center as a tenured Professor and then to the Vascular Medicine Institute at the University of Pittsburgh in 2021.

In the past 15 years, the Trebak lab has trained 15 graduate students (3 current), 12 postdoctoral fellows and 8 undergraduate students. Several alumni of the lab are faculty members at different institutions while others joined the pharmaceutical industry.

Selected Distinctions, Honors and Awards:

Editorial Board, Annual Reviews of Physiology: 2024-2028

Co-Chairman, FASEB Science Research Conferences “Calcium and Cell Function”, 2023 (Vice-Chair, 2021)

The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Outstanding Instigator Award, 2020

Editorial Board, Vascular Pharmacology, 2022-present

Board of Reviewing Editors, eLife, 2021-present

Editorial Board: Physiological Reviews , 2018-present

Editorial Board: Journal of Biological Chemistry, (second term) 2019-2023

Editorial Board: Cell Calcium, 2014-present

Editorial Board: Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2013-2018

Editorial Board: Pflügers Archives, 2008-present

Academic Editor: PLOS One, 2012-2020

Book Editor: (w/ Scott Earley), Signal Transduction and Smooth Muscle. Taylor and Francis. 2018

NIH Hypertension and Microcirculation (MH) Study Section, (Standing Member: 2016-2022)

Co-Chairman: Gordon Research Conferences “Calcium Signaling”, 2019 (Vice-Chair, 2017)

Co-Chairman: International Meeting on Ion Channel signaling Mechanisms, 2011, 2019