User:Mohammad Massumi/sandbox

Mohammad Massumi was born in Saghi as a village in the Gonabad city.

Dr. Mohammad Massumi
Mohammad Massumi was born on 27 July 1976 in the village of Saghi, Gonabad, Iran. He did undergraduate studies (1995-1999) in the University of Ahwaz in Iran in General Biology. Then he was accepted in the National exam to get in Master degree in Biochemistry in Tehran University as most prestigious University in Iran (2000-2003). In his thesis under the supervision of Dr. Ziaee, they tried to induce apoptosis in T-lymphoma cells using Dendrosome and lipofectamine carrying TP53 gene. Then he got a grant from Catalonia government to do his Ph.D. in the University of Pompeu Fabra under the supervision of Dr. Skoudy. In his thesis, he generates three mouse embryonic cell lines expressing three main transcription factors P48, RBP-L and Mist1 involved in acinar development. The result of his thesis was published in Plos One journal. He was involved in the other project in the lab dealing with pancreas development, and differentiation of mouse ES cells into acinar cells using the transient expression of TFs, (published in Gastroenterology). He graduated on Dec 18 with excellent cum laude grade that is the top score in Spanish scoring system.

In April 2010 he was back to his country and he joined to Animal and Marine department and later Stem cells Department of National Institute of genetic engineering and biotechnology, Iran. He started his work on differentiation of transgenic mouse ES cells into Dopaminergic neurons. Then he started to establish human iPS cells from Diabetic patients and try to differentiate them into DE cells.

Then he applied for a post-doc for Dr. Michael wheeler group in the faculty of medicine, the University of Toronto on 03 Dec 2013. There He was involved in the project in the derivation of insulin-producing cells from iPS and ES cells. He developed an abbreviated protocol to generate insulin-producing cells from pluripotent stem cells. Then to host the insulin-producing cells into the diabetic mice he joined to Andras Nagy's lab to generate a safe site in the diabetic mice to host the insulin-producing cells. He published a numerous publication in the field of stem cells and Diabetes. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3iXhSLEAAAAJ&hl=en ↓ }}