Farrokh Ziaollah Modabber

Background

Modabber, Farrokh Ziaollah was born on February 27, 1940 in Rasht, Guilan, Iran. Son of Ziaollah and Maryam Modabber. came to the United States, 1958.

Education

Bachelor, University of California at Los Angeles, 1964; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California at Los Angeles, 1968.

Career

Fellow, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1969-1972; assistant professor, Harvard University, 1974-1977; associate professor, Pahlavi U., Shiraz, Iran, 1971-1973; head department pathobiology, School Public Health, Teheran, 1975-1977; director, Pasteur Institute, Teheran, 1978; head department immunology, Syntex Research, Palo Alto, California, 1982-1984; science, coordinator leishmaniasis research and coordinator strategic research division tropical diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, since 1984. Expert advisory board on immunology World Health Organization, 1977-1983. Visiting science Pasteur Institute, Paris, 1979-1982.

Visiting lecturer 1977-1982.

Achievements

• Farrokh Ziaollah Modabber has been listed as a noteworthy Immunologist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member American Association of Immunologists, British Society for Immunology, New York Academy Science, American Society of Microbiology, Iranian Society for Immunology (president, founder).

Interests

• Avocation: classical Persian music.

Connections

Children: Zia F., M. Ramin, Yalda Modabber.

Father:

Ziaollah Modabber

Mother:

Maryam Modabber

child:

Zia F. Modabber

child:

Yalda Modabber

child:

M. Ramin Modabber