{"id":42918,"date":"2026-07-08T15:07:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T15:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iku.atu.edu.iq\/?p=42918"},"modified":"2026-07-08T15:13:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T15:13:05","slug":"a-faculty-member-from-the-institute-earns-a-phd-degree-from-the-college-of-science-university-of-kufa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iku.atu.edu.iq\/?p=42918&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"A faculty member from the institute was awarded a PhD degree from the College of Science \/ University of Kufa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-stone-800-color has-text-color has-link-color has-xl-font-size wp-elements-9efe613c8c6c5eb5f91f0594025bd25d wp-block-paragraph\" dir=\"ltr\">Assoc. Prof. Makarim Hisham Muhammad, from the Department of Pharmacy Technologies at the Technical Institute \/ Kufa, was awarded a PhD degree from the College of Science \/ University of Kufa for her thesis titled<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-stone-800-color has-text-color has-link-color has-xl-font-size wp-elements-376b14fcbd669ac9de8909a1ed3f6e3d wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Integrative Evaluation of Physiological and Immunological Biomarkers for Predicting the Risk of Recurrent Pregnancy Loss<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-stone-800-color has-text-color has-link-color has-xl-font-size wp-elements-5e6f09efae8a524c25cf821a4a0af787 wp-block-paragraph\" dir=\"ltr\">Supervised by Prof. Dr. Arshad Nouri Ghani Al-Dujayli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-stone-800-color has-text-color has-link-color has-xl-font-size wp-elements-7c9070ebc6677cc9cf588b7454120438 wp-block-paragraph\" dir=\"ltr\">The thesis aimed to evaluate four biomarkers includes Mucin-4 (MUC4), Prokineticin-1 (PROK1), Programmed Cell Death Protein-1 (PD-1), and Glycodelin-A (GdA) to predict the risk of recurrent pregnancy loss in women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-stone-800-color has-text-color has-link-color has-xl-font-size wp-elements-6b9301c858c628e2cde8c05bad022989 wp-block-paragraph\" dir=\"ltr\">The study found that MUC4 levels increase significantly, while PROK1, PD-1, and GdA levels decrease, which is associated with impaired immune tolerance and an inflammatory response in affected women compared with healthy controls\u2014suggesting that these levels can be used as biomarkers to predict the condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-stone-800-color has-text-color has-link-color has-xl-font-size wp-elements-6d4a40a0c50a7dcb82ac4b03f2d37eee wp-block-paragraph\" dir=\"ltr\"><em>The results<\/em> also showed that the severity of the condition is linked to younger age, obesity, a higher number of miscarriages, and gestational age. In contrast, the family history showed no significant effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-stone-800-color has-text-color has-link-color has-xl-font-size wp-elements-330ad2e04a9059409c18da98e03d223b wp-block-paragraph\" dir=\"ltr\">The thesis was approved with distinction (excellent).<br>Congratulations to Dr. Makarim, and wishing her continued scientific achievements and more success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"670\" src=\"https:\/\/iku.atu.edu.iq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/738143030_1339910511586894_2362486645198511838_n-1-1024x670.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42919\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iku.atu.edu.iq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/738143030_1339910511586894_2362486645198511838_n-1-1024x670.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/iku.atu.edu.iq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/738143030_1339910511586894_2362486645198511838_n-1-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/iku.atu.edu.iq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/738143030_1339910511586894_2362486645198511838_n-1-768x502.jpg 768w, https:\/\/iku.atu.edu.iq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/738143030_1339910511586894_2362486645198511838_n-1.jpg 1076w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"656\" src=\"https:\/\/iku.atu.edu.iq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/736778663_1748307709504621_1344142692631147846_n-1-1024x656.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iku.atu.edu.iq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/736778663_1748307709504621_1344142692631147846_n-1-1024x656.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/iku.atu.edu.iq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/736778663_1748307709504621_1344142692631147846_n-1-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/iku.atu.edu.iq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/736778663_1748307709504621_1344142692631147846_n-1-768x492.jpg 768w, https:\/\/iku.atu.edu.iq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/736778663_1748307709504621_1344142692631147846_n-1.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/iku.atu.edu.iq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/736455214_1730194014641771_4917849353509921889_n-2-1024x667.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42921\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iku.atu.edu.iq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/736455214_1730194014641771_4917849353509921889_n-2-1024x667.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/iku.atu.edu.iq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/736455214_1730194014641771_4917849353509921889_n-2-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/iku.atu.edu.iq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/736455214_1730194014641771_4917849353509921889_n-2-768x500.jpg 768w, https:\/\/iku.atu.edu.iq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/736455214_1730194014641771_4917849353509921889_n-2.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"649\" src=\"https:\/\/iku.atu.edu.iq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/736273139_2343488196181294_7320880170109585038_n-1-1024x649.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42922\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iku.atu.edu.iq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/736273139_2343488196181294_7320880170109585038_n-1-1024x649.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/iku.atu.edu.iq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/736273139_2343488196181294_7320880170109585038_n-1-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/iku.atu.edu.iq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/736273139_2343488196181294_7320880170109585038_n-1-768x486.jpg 768w, https:\/\/iku.atu.edu.iq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/736273139_2343488196181294_7320880170109585038_n-1.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assoc. Prof. Makarim Hisham Muhammad, from the Department of Pharmacy Technologies at the Technical Institute \/ Kufa, was awarded a PhD degree from the College of Science \/ University of Kufa for her thesis titled Integrative Evaluation of Physiological and Immunological Biomarkers for Predicting the Risk of Recurrent Pregnancy Loss Supervised by Prof. Dr. Arshad &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iku.atu.edu.iq\/?p=42918&#038;lang=en\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":42914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,173,248,176,254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pharmacy-department-activities","category-activity-en","category-media-en","category-ads-en","category---en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iku.atu.edu.iq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iku.atu.edu.iq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iku.atu.edu.iq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iku.atu.edu.iq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iku.atu.edu.iq\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42918"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/iku.atu.edu.iq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42927,"href":"https:\/\/iku.atu.edu.iq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42918\/revisions\/42927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iku.atu.edu.iq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iku.atu.edu.iq\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iku.atu.edu.iq\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iku.atu.edu.iq\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}