- Biochemistry and clinical biochemistry lecturer
- Scientific debate instructor
- Departmental Member of Curriculum development committee
- supervisor of summer medical laboratory training Programme for chemistry students at Sulaimani maternity hospital
- Departmental member of undergraduate research
Research interests:
- Ubiquitin and proteasome system
- Endocrine regulation of bone
- Cellular death pathways (apoptosis, autophagy)
- Role of ubiquitin system in cancer signalling
- Metabolic abnormalities
- Selected Publications:
- Prevalence of Pre-Analytical Errors in Clinical Chemistry Diagnostic Labs in Sulaimani City of Iraqi Kurdistan, Dereen Najat (2017) PlosOne journal. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0170211
- Characterisation of a non-UBA domain missense mutation of sequestosome 1 (SQSTM1) in Paget's disease of bone. Najat D, Garner T, Hagen T, Shaw B, Sheppard PW, Falchetti A, Marini F, Brandi ML, Long JE, Cavey JR, Searle MS, Layfield R (2009) Journal of Bone and Mineral Research. 24(4):63242. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19049332
- p62 mutations, ubiquitin recognition and Paget's disease of bone. Layfield R, Cavey JR, Najat D, Long J, Sheppard PW, Ralston SH, Searle MS (2006) Biochem Soc Trans. 34(5):735-7. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17052185