Farnaz Nikbakht
Iran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Biography
Farnaz Nikbakht was born in Tehran, Iran, on 8 October 1969. Before obtaining her Ph.D. degree in Human Physiology from Shiraz University in 2007, she received an award from the Iran Ministry of Health and Education and spent six months at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia for completing her research on degenerative diseases. Now, as the Associate professor of Department of Physiology, in Iran University of Medical Sciences, she has managed several research programs and has conducted the thesis of several Masters and Ph.D. students in her Lab. Since 2010 she has directed a research team on Epilepsy and Alzheimer’s diseases fields in her lab. Her research leads to publishing several articles.