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Advisory Board Member
Jalal Pourahmad, Ph.D., Pharm.D., M.Sc.,
Professor of Toxicology and Pharmacology,
Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences,
Faculty of Pharmacy
Tehran, Iran |
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Dr. Jalal pourahmad graduated as
Doctor of Pharmacy in 1988 From Mashhad University, Iran and as Ph.D. in
Toxicology in 2001 from
University of
Toronto,
Canada. He is currently working as a Full Professor in Shahid Beheshti
University of Medical Sciences,
Tehran,
Iran. He has so far published two books and more than 60 scientific
papers in English and Farsi. He is exploring ways of
decreasing the toxicity of cancer drugs and increasing their therapeutic
specificity. These methods include the use of less toxic drug analogues,
antidotes, improving the nutritional status of the patient and targeting of
the drug to the tissue that requires therapy. The biochemical research
techniques used include the monitoring of changes in biomolecules, cellular
metabolism mitochondrial/lysosomal function when drugs are administered in
vivo, perfused intact organs, or incubated with intact cells or subcellular
fractions. Biological systems studied include hepatocytes, human tumor
cells, renal proximal tubular cells, cardiomyocytes and isolated
mitochondria.
Website:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jalal_Pourahmad/
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