Somaieh Kazemnejad
Avicenna Research Institute
Iran
Biography
Somaieh Kazemnejad is associate professor and director of Tissue Engineering department in Avicenna Research Institute, where she leads the Regenerative Medicine Group, a multidisciplinary team of researchers including engineers, cell biologists, polymer chemists, clinicians, and veterinary surgeons. She was born in 1979 and completed her Ph.D at the age of 27 years from Tarbiat Modarres University of Iran. She is a Clinical Biochemist who is one of very few Iranian academics in the field of regenerative medicine and tissue engineering to have taken a research programme from fundamental research through to clinical application utilizing research in-vitro, in-vivo, preclinical large animal studies and clinical trials with focus on menstrual blood stem cells. She has published more than 28 papers in reputed journals in the field of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.