Dr. Nayef A. Mazloum joined WCM-Q in January 2011. He comes from WCMC in New York where he served since 2008 as instructor of microbiology and immunology. He graduated from the American University of Beirut in 1994, continuing his studies at New York Medical College in Valhalla, graduating with a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular biology in 2003. He started his postdoctoral training at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York before continuing at WCMC.

Dr. Nayef Mazloum is working to uncover the molecular mechanisms of human diseases. His research focus involves molecular aspects of DNA repair mechanisms as related to the stability of the genome and how the dysfunction of these regulatory pathways leads to disease onset. His lab utilizes cellular, biochemical, molecular, and genetic approaches to uncover altered molecular pathways in metabolic disorders and age-related diseases.