Masoomeh Shams-Ghahfarokhi
Professor Masoomeh Shams-Ghahfarokhi is a faculty member at Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran, where she has been working for around 25 years. After graduating with a degree in Medical Mycology in 2000, Dr. Shams-Ghahfarokhi passed a training course as a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) fellow in Japan during 2005–2007. Her research is focused on the identification and isolation of antifungal compounds from natural resources (including plants and organisms) and their molecular aspects on the activity of pathogenic fungi. She is active in evaluating the inhibitory effects of bio-nanomaterials and anti-scaling membranes for the selective treatment of fungal infections and their mechanism of action on the cellular and molecular levels. She is also investigating the identification of pathogenic fungi and their genetic diversity by using molecular techniques such as sequencing, real-time PCR, multiplex PCR, and other methods. Dr. Shams-Ghahfarokhi has around two decades of teaching and research, and she has advised and supervised numerous MSc and Ph.D. theses.