Ehsan Shojaeefar

Email: [email protected]

Skills:

1.Lab animal handling and specialised surgery.  2.Tumor cell cultures.  3.Dendritic Cell (DC) generation and culture.  4.Gamma irradiation based apoptotic Antigen generation.  5.Flow-Cytometric analysis setup and operation (Immunophenotype assay).  6.Magnetic Activated Cell Sorting (MACS) setup and application. 7.Mixed leukocyte reaction (MLR) setup and its analysis by [3H] Methyl thymidine incorporation. 8.Phagocytosis assays. 9.MTT cell toxicity assay 10. Scientific writing. 11.SPSS software data analysis.  12.Health data registration and Non-communicable disease prevention management.   

 Educations and research activities:

2002-2010:  Professional doctorate, Urmia University, (Average grade of 17.54 of 20)

2008-2010: Researcher at Institute of biotechnology, Urmia University

 Thesis: Phenotypic and functional comparison between cell Culture flask adherence and MACS derived dendritic cells. 

2014-2016: Research manager and immunology lecturer at republic of armania research institute of traditional and alternative mecicine. 

2016-2020: coordinator and Researcher at Iranian scientific association of community medicine.

2019-present: Member of Immunology Board for Transplantation and Advanced Cellular Therapeutics (ImmunoTACT), Universal Scientific and Education Network (USERN)

2020-2021: chief researcher at men's health and reproductive health research center (MHRHRC), Shahid Beheshti university of medical science, Tehran, Iran    

Publication:  

1- R. Shahrooz and E. Shojaeefar (2013). Book Translation (English to Persian): Stem cell, scientific progress and future research directions (2004). NIH. ISBN:1410218961. 

2- E. Shojaeefar (2014). Immunology by simple words, regarding traditional medicine aspects (book, in Persian).   

3. F. Kheiri, R. E.Sabzi, E. Jannatdoust, E. Shojaeefar, H. Sedghi. (2011). A novel amperometric immunosensor based on acetone-extracted propolis for the detection of the HIV-1p24 antigen. Biosensors and Bioelectronic.26:p4457-4463. (Impact factor=5.437)

4. Delirezh, N., Shojaeefar, E. (2012) Phenotypic and functional comparison between flask adherent and magnetic activated cell sorted monocytes derived dendritic cells. Iranian Journal of Immunology. 9 (2):p98-108.

5. Delirezh, N., Shojaeefar, E., Parvin, P., Asadi, B. (2013) comparison the effects of two monocyte isolation methods,  plastic adherence and magnetic activated cell Sorting methods, on phagocytic activity of generated dendritic cells. Cell Journal (yakhteh). Vol 15, No 3, P: 218-223.

6.Kheirandish H, Shojaeeefar E, Meysamie A. Role of Cupping in the treatment of different diseases: systematic review article. Tehran University Medical Journal TUMS Publications. 2017 Mar 15;74(12):829-42.



7. A. Meysamie, A. Esteghamati , K. Sadeghniat Haghighi, A. Vasheghani-Farahani, F. Rajabi, F. Coohdani, F. halabchi, S.M. Mosavi Movahed, M.S. Rezaee, E. Shojaeefar. (2017). Introduction of Risk Assessment and Risk Management COHORT for Cardiovascular diseases and diabetes mellitus in selected areas of 16th and 17th zones in Tehran from 2016 to 2021: Phase 2, Establishment after a successful pilot and feasibility assessment study, First Annual Community Medicine Congress on Non-Communicable Diseases Prevention and Control” Feb 14-17, Tehran, Iran.

8- Meysamie A, Ghalehtaki R, Ghodsi S, Esteghamati A, Mohammad K, Etemad K, Koohpayezadeh J,
Shojaeefar E. The Trend of Cigarette Smoking in Iranian Adult Population from 2000 to 2011; Based On Four National Surveys. Social Determinants of Health. 2017 Apr 8;3(3):148-59.



9. Tavakolikia N, Kheiltash A, Shojaeefar E, Montazeri A, Shariati M, Meysamie A. The most well-known health literacy questionnaires: a narrative review. Social Determinants of Health.2017;3(2):104-3.

10- Pezeshki MZ, Shojaeefar E,The necessity of urgent low-cost epidemiological studies with short duration about the role of BCG vaccine in preventing and controlling of COVID-19 in Iran. Journal of the Iranian Institute for Health Sciences Research. 2020;19 (2):139-144

11- Shojaeefar, E., Rezaei, N. (2023). Dendritic Cell-Based Cancer Immunotherapy. In: Rezaei, N. (eds) Handbook of Cancer and Immunology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80962-1_193-1

Oral presentation:

Pilot report of Implementing Risk Assessment and Risk Management Cohort for Cardiovascular disease and diabetes mellitus among population of 16^th and 17^th districts of Tehran (1617 Cohort), Second Community Medicine Congress on Non-Communicable Diseases Prevention and Control” Feb 16-17, (2019),Tehran, Iran

Experiences:

1-Executive Secretary of “First and second Community Medicine Congress on Non-Communicable Diseases Prevention and Control”Feb 14-17, 2017 and 2019, Tehran, Iran.


2-Executive manager of  Cohort 1617 (Risk Assessment and Risk Management for Cardiovascular diseases and diabetes mellitus in selected areas of 16th and 17th zones in Tehran,
2017-2019 

3-Teaching: - Basic immunology at Armenian- Russian international university of “Makhitar Gosh” (division of Iran),2013-2015.

           - Basic SPSS data analysis, 3 days Workshop at Tehran university of medical science 

4- Research team leader in the field of non-communicable disease (NCD) at MHRHRC   

Area of interests 

Immunotherapy (cancer and Transplantation), preventive medicine, Epidemiology

Referees:

1. Dr. Alipasha Meysamie MD MPH, professor in community and prevention medicine. Email:
[email protected]

2. Dr. Mahzad Akbarpour, DVM, PhD, Immunologist,  Department of Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.
[email protected]

3. Professor Nima Rezaei, MD, Immunologist, Funding president of USERN, Research Center for Immunodeficiencies, Children's Medical Center Hospital, Tehran, Iran. Email: [email protected]