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DR MOHAMMAD JAVAD BIRJANDI

B.Sc. (Hons.) (Physics with Medical Physics, Brighton), 1981

P.G.DIP. (Medical Physics, Surrey), 1982

PHD. (Bio-Medical Physics, Aberdeen), 1991

Dedicated to:

Those who suffer so much; with compassion, and hope. ..

Both My Grandfathers: Mr. Mohammad Hossain Birjandi and Mr Gholamreza Parandeh

Heart-breaking victims of cancer

My Parents:		Mr Ramazan Birjandi and Mrs Fatemeh Kobra Parandeh My Sisters:		Marzieh, Zohreh , Mansoureh , Zahra Mr Brother:		Mahdi

Dr Mohammad Javad Birjandi is of Persian descent, he was born 1957, in Mashhad, Iran. Dr Birjandi arrived in the UK in 1974 after being given a full scholarship by the Government in his city, Mashhad, for his accomplishment of ranking ‘3rd’ in an academic test out of 50,000 students. He studied his A levels in the UK and upon completion attended the University of Brighton where he did his undergraduate degree; then proceeded to do his post-graduate study at the University of Surrey. Dr Birjandi continued and obtained his PHD in Bio-Medical Physics at the University of Aberdeen in 1991.

Although an academic, Dr Javad Birjandi also enjoyed teaching Kung Fu Chinese boxing. He was the first person in Scotland to teach Kung Fu Chinese boxing and would teach 9 classes a week in Aberdeen and also taught classes at the University of Strathclyde on Saturday’s. In 1990, Dr Birjandi invented a machine for the electromagnetic field of treating cancer. Patients were put inside the machine and it was used to kill cancerous cells. In 1991, Dr Birjandi moved to Clatterbridge Hospital in Liverpool; one of the UK’s leading Cancer Centre.

Dr Javad Birjandi passed away on 8th February 1993 due to a mid-air collision just outside Tehran, Iran which left no survivors. All 133 lives on both air-craft were lost. Dr Birjandi had travelled to Iran for the funeral of his father and boarded a commercial flight to Mashhad when the unfortunate event occurred.