Background
Hossein Baharvand was born in 1972 and obtained his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 2004 in the field of Developmental Biology from Kharazmi University (formerly Tarbiat Moallem University), Tehran, Iran.
biologist head director of Royan Institute
Hossein Baharvand was born in 1972 and obtained his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 2004 in the field of Developmental Biology from Kharazmi University (formerly Tarbiat Moallem University), Tehran, Iran.
He began work at the Royan Institute in Tehran from 1996. He is currently full professor and head of Department of Stem Cells and Developmental Biology at Royan institute for Stem Cell Biology and Technology. Moreover, he is the head of department of Developmental Biology at University of Science and Culture in Tehran.
He and his colleagues have established several human embryonic stem cell lines since 2003 and later human induced pluripotent stem cells.
This has enabled them to pursue many avenues of research into methods of generating therapeutic cells from stem cells and made them the pioneer in stem cell research throughout the Middle East. He has published more than 150 peer-review papers in national and international journals, as well as four book chapters in international books and nine books in Persian.
He is editor of Trends in Stem Cell Biology and Technology book
He is an editorial board member of five international journals.