About:

The department provides a platform for interactions between researchers interested in the biology of stem cells, regeneration and differentiation. It was established in 2003. Current research in the Department diverges on fifteen main fields of interest:

Teams

• Hossein Baharvand, Head of Stem cells and developmental biology department.
• Seyyedeh-Nafiseh Hassani, Biology of pluripotent stem cells
• Mohamadreza Baghaban Eslaminejad, Leila Taghiyar, Bone and cartilage cells
• Sara Pahlavan, Cardiovascular cells
• Mehdi Totonchi, Epigenetic reprogramming
• Fereshteh Esfandiari, Germ cells
• Marzieh Ebrahimi, Hematopoietic stem cells and Cancer stem cells
• Abbas Piryaie, Hepatocytes and gastrointestinal cells
• Reza Moghadasali, Kidney cells
• Sharif Moradi, Molecular biomedicine; microRNA
• Mohsen Basiri, Molecular biomedicine; gene targeting
• Vahid Khoddami, Molecular biomedicine; mRNA
• Yaser Tahamtani, Pancreatic beta cells
• Parvaneh Mohammadi, Skin and hair cells
• Faezeh Shekari, Extracellular Vesicles (EVs) & Molecular systems biology

Various model organisms (mouse, zebrafish, chick, quail, sheep and monkey) are used. Precise information about research activities is given under each principal investigator.