Pharmaceutical Sciences and Innovations in Pharma Industry

Biography

Zahra-Soheila Soheili Ph.D. is an associate professor of cell and molecular biology at National Institute of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (NIGEB).She graduated from the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Tehran, Iran in 2002. Subsequently, she completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the U268 INSERM, Paris France in myeloproliferative disorders, where she focused on the role of the extracellular matrix in primary myelofibrosis. In 2003 she was recruited to NIGEB and became an instructor and junior investigator at the “medical biotechnology department”, where she studied on human retinal pigment epithelium cells’ biology and behavior, in vitro. In 2017 Dr. Soheili got a chance to be an invited scientist at the “service of ophthalmology in neuroclinic of the faculty of medicine, university of Genève, Switzerland”, which is the coordinator of the European project of the “Target AMD”.

Research Interest

Gene therapy, Retinal cell biology, Anti angiogenic drugs.