Dr. Erfani Lab.
Vahid Erfani-Moghadam, PhD in Nanobiotechnology
Assistant Professor,
Department of Biotechnology, School of Advanced Medical Technologies,
Golestan University of Medical Sciences,
Gorgan, Iran.
P.O.Box: 49341-74611
Email: vahid.erfani@goums.ac.ir
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Education and Qualifications:
PhD: (2009- 2014) Nanobiotechnology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
Thesis: "Design and application of some dendritic nanocarriers on anticancer properties of curcumin from Turmeric (Curcuma longa)" Supervisor: Professor Majid Sadeghizadeh
Work Experience
PhD, Assistant Professor, (2014- now)
Department of Biotechnology, school of Advanced Medical Technologies, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran. P.O.Box: 49341-74611. Email: vahid.erfani@goums.ac.ir
Visiting researcher at Prof. Volga Bulmus, (16 Jul. 2014 - 20 Sep 2014). فرصت مطالعاتی
Department of Chemical Engineering, Izmir Institute of Technology, Gulbahce, Urla, Izmir, 35430, Turkey. E-mail: volgabulmus@iyte.edu.tr
Ø RAFT polymerization for a kind of arginine-based cationic polymers for gene delivery (at prof. Volga Bulmus laboratory )
Ø Drug Encapsulation and Drug Conjugation by PAMAM Dendrimer and following characterization by NMR & FT-IR,
Ø Determination encapsulation efficiency, loading and release of Drug (Curcumin) by spectroscopy for novel micelles,
Ø Stability study with Dynamic Light Scattering(DLS)
Ø Determination of Critical Micelle Concentration(CMC) by Pyridine fluorescence shift
Ø Cell culture and cytotoxicity experiments,(MTT),
Ø PAMAM dendrimer surface Drug conjugation
Ø Flow cytometry ( 1-quantitative curcumin absorbance, 2-cell cycle by PI and 3-apoptosis by PI/Annexcin)
Ø Mouse breast cancer cell injection(Just to learn and have experience)
Ø RNA extraction , cDNA synthesis and analysis of relative gene expression data using Real time PCR
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School of Advanced Medicl Technologies
Golestan University of Medical Sciences
Falsafi complex, Shastcola Rd.
Gorgan, Iran
Tel:+98-173-245-1653
Fax:+98-173-245-1654
Email: vahid.erfani@goums.ac.ir
Group Members
Research Interest
Publications
Conference presentations
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Computer skills:
Windows, Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word),
bioinformatics: Biological databases (NCBI),
Sequence analysis (Clustal),
commonly used bioinformatics software (NTSYS, popgene, Arlequin),
Internet Data Mining
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