Narges Farshidi

E-mail: [email protected]

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

 M.S. Medical Immunology

Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

Date: Sep2013 – Aug 2016

 Discontinuous B.S Clinical Laboratory Science

Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Date: Feb. 2010 – Feb.2013

 Associated of Science. Clinical Laboratory Science

Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Iran

Date: Sep2007- July2009

Graduated from Professional Coach Training Program (ICF Accredited Coach Training Program)

from Farsi Coaching Academy. 

Date: June 2022

PUBLICATIONS

1. Farshidi N, Moghaddam M, Yaghoubi V, Ayati SH, Varasteh A-r, Sankian

M. Type IV chitinase quantification in four different grape cultivars (Vitis vinifera) in northeast of Iran by an

indirect sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Journal of Immunoassay and Immunochemistry.

2018:1-10.

2. Yaghoubi Naei V, Sankian M, Moghadam M, Farshidi N, Ayati SH, Hamid F, et al. The Influence of Gamma

Radiation Processing on the Allergenicity of Main Pistachio Allergens. Reports of Biochemistry and

Molecular Biology. 2019;7(2):150-5. eng.

3. Mahsa, R., et al. (2020). "Clinical significance of serum concentrations of neuregulin-4, in acute coronary syndrome." Scientific Reports (Nature Publisher Group) 10(1).

4. Rahimzadeh, M., et al. (2020). "Correlation of vitamin d serum level and IL-35 in coronary artery disease patients." Atherosclerosis 315: e124.

5. Farshidi, H., et al. (2021). "Negative correlation between neuregulin-4 and IL-9 serum levels in patients with coronary artery disease." Endocrine, Metabolic & Immune Disorders-Drug Targets (Formerly Current Drug Targets-Immune, Endocrine & Metabolic Disorders) 21(11): 2068-2074.

6. Naderi, N., et al. (2021). "Lack of association between serum IL-25 levels and acute coronary syndrome: a preliminary study." Кардиология 61(4): 60-65.

7. Samieefar, N., et al. (2021). "Country quarantine during COVID-19: critical or not?" Disaster medicine and public health preparedness 15(4): e24-e25.

8. Farshidi, N., et al. (2022). "Preparation and pre-clinical evaluation of flagellin-adjuvanted NOM vaccine candidate formulated with Spike protein against SARS-CoV-2 in mouse model." Microbial Pathogenesis 171: 105736.

POSTER PRESENTATION

Production of polyclonal antibody against class IV chitinase by acrylamide as an Adjuvant. In the 13th International

Congress of Immunology and Allergy, 2016, Tabriz, Iran.

WORK EXPERIENCES:

- Laboratory Expert at Pharmaceutics Laboratory at pharmacy School, Hormozgan University of medical Sciences (HUMS) since 2021 until now.

- Research experience:

-USERN Office Director at Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences (HUMS). From December 2019 until 2022, from 2022 until now

- Research Assistant at Immunology department of HUMS medical School. From September 2019 until 2021

- Have collaboration with Hormozgan Cardiovascular Research Center, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences

(HUMS), Bandar Abbas, Iran. From 2016 (November) until 2019. (Current research: cytokine polymorphisms

 in Coronary hearth diseases.)

Worked for 11 months as a Clinical laboratory expert at General Pars Hospital, Abomusa Island, Hormozgan, Iran. (Dec 2016 - Nov 2017)

Executive committee membership for two months in third International Congress of Immunology, Asthmaand Allergy & the first symposium on Food & Drug Allergy. 3-6 May 2016, Mashhad, Iran.

Worked for 9 months as a volunteer clinical laboratory expert at Shariati Women Hospital, Faculty of medicine, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences (HUMS) (Feb 2013- Oct 2013)

 Worked for 5 months as a Clinical laboratory expert at Shariati Women Hospital, Faculty of medicine, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences (HUMS) 2012, Bandar Abbas, Iran.

- Teaching Experience:

Part time lecturer

Four credits Medical Immunology for midwife students at Nursing and Midwifery School, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences (HUMS), Bandar Abbas, Iran, from February 2018

until June 2018.

TRAINING AND QUALIFICATIONS in Cellular and Molecular

- Protein Analysis Techniques:

Western Blot Analysis, ELISA, SDS-PAGE, Polyclonal Antibody Production, Sandwich ELISA designing.

- Protein purification Techniques:

Chromatography: affinity, Immunoaffinity, - Immobilized metal ion affinity

- Tissue Culture Techniques:

Basic of cell culture

- Animal handling. (Mouse and rabbit)

- Familiar with protein expression in Eukaryotic system.

 Cellular and molecular techniques:

- DNA Extraction

Software Skills:

- Word, Power point, Excel

- Adobe Photoshop and design.

- Endnote.

- SPSS (basic)

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Persian: Native language

English: Fluent enough

- IELTS overall score (10/November/2018): 6.5

Speaking: 6 Writing: 6 Reading: 7.5 Listening: 6.5

Other Skills:

Trainings past:

Courses and Workshops

completed 24 hours of the educational workshops of the 9th USERN Research Week held on March 4th-13th 2023

-Scientific Writing

-Journal selection, submission and peer review

-editing books with international publications

- basic statistics

-Systematic Review

- Meta- Analysis

1.8 UAS

- Attending on a three-days Advanced Course of Immunotherapy. On 23-25 of April 2018. International Union of immunological societies and Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

- Attending a ‘9 hours the ICB Training Course Entitled: ‘Phage Systems Workshops’: Introduction to humoral immunity and monoclonal antibody technologies, Surface display technologies, Principles of phage display

technology and its application, Construction of monoclonal antibody using phage display. On 7 of February 2018, International Congress of biomedicine, Pasteur Institute of Iran,Tehran, Iran.

- Attending a ‘9 hours the ICB Training Course entitled: Vaccine Design and Production workshops’: Design of a recombinant vaccine, T-cell Epitope Vaccine Design by Immunoinformatics, Recombinant Vaccine Purification and Formulation. On 24 July 2017, International Congress of biomedicine, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran.

- Attending a two-day workshop entitled (Basic Genetic Engineering Techniques) (Application of CRISPR/Cas9System in Gene Therapy) on 11-12 July 2017, Council for stem Cell sciences and technologies, Tehran, Iran.

- Attending on the advanced course in Immunology in the 13th International Congress of Immunology and Allergy, 2016, Tabriz, Iran.

- PCR and Electrophoresis course. Certificate No. IR/LAB-TR/IQC/005-02/20122012, on 28 July-15 September 2012.

- Attending on the third summer school on New Generation of Vaccines (Design & Development) course consist of Prokaryotic expression system, essentials in Cloning & recombinant DNA, expression confirmation by SDS-PAGE.

Held on September 3 to September 11, 2012 by Influenza Unit, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran.

- Attending the second summer school courses consist of ELISA, Advanced PCR, Research Design and Article writing, Introductory PCR and Gel-Electrophoresis. Held on September 5 to September 15, 2011, by Influenza Research lab, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran.

Lecturer:

- One-hour workshop entitled ‘How to submit your manuscript’, held on 10 December 2017 at Hormozgan

Cardiovascular Research center, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Iran