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Dr. Hassan Azari

Assistant Professor
Shiraz University of Medical Sciences
Karym Khane Zand Street
 

Brief Biography:


Hassan Azari, MSc, PhD, received his master in Anatomy in 2001 from Tarbiat Modarres University, Tehran, Iran and his doctorate degree in 2007 from the Medical University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran. He did his PhD thesis work at the Queensland Brain Institute of the University Queensland, Australia, where he was working on developing a new technology for enrichment of neuronal progenitors from adult neural stem cells. He started his career as an Assistant Professor of Anatomy in Shiraz University of Medical Sciences in 2007. He joined Professor Brent Reynolds lab at the university of Florida in 2009 as a postdoctoral associate.

Dr. Azari's research focuses on development of new technologies for purification and enrichment of defined cell populations from renewable source of stem cells. The goal of his studies is to devise efficient cell therapeutic approaches for neurological diseases such as stroke and spinal cord injuries. He is also interested in cancer stem cells biology.

 

Academic positions:


2007- Present         Assistant Professor and Academic Member of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences (SUMS) – Shiraz- Iran

2009-Present            Post-doctorate research associate- Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Florida

 

 

Research interests:


  1. Neural Stem Cells Biology
  2. Cancer Stem cell Biology
  3. Embryonic and Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Biology (Neural differentiation)
  4. Cell Replacement Therapy of Neurological Diseases
  5. Development of new technologies for neural cell selection and Isolation
 

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I am very happy with this innovative approach of publishing research work in biomedical sciences and strongly believe in that current peer-review system is biased and needs to be revolutionized. It is the right of all researchers from all across the world to find an easy and fair system to publish the findings and ideas. Also I believe that post publication peer review has got more credibilty and many people from different background can read the articles and comment on it.

I support this new system very much.

 

Home Page:


http://www.neurosurgery.ufl.edu/faculty-staff/hassan-azari.shtml