Niloufar Yazdanpanah

Niloufar Yazdanpanah

date of birth: May 11th, 1998

email: [email protected]     [email protected]     [email protected]     [email protected] 

Education

Sep 2009- May 2012: Farzanegan middle school, NODET (national organization for the development of exceptional talents), Tehran, Iran

Sep 2012- May 2016: Farzanegan high school, NODET (national organization for the development of exceptional talents), Tehran, Iran

Sep 2016- now: Medical (MD) student at Tehran University of medical science, Tehran, Iran

Honors

Ranked 115^th in the 2016 National University Entrance Exam in the field of Experimental Sciences from among 600,000 participants

Ranked 36^th in the 2016 National University Entrance Exam in the field of Foreign Languages from among 400,000 participants

Awarding as the "Best Junior Book Editor" in the 1st National Students Research and Technology Festival, Ardabil, Iran, September 2022 

Awarding as the "Honor Student: The Best Medical Student Researcher", School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, September 2023 

Awarding as the "Best Junior Book Editor" in the 2nd National Students Research and Technology Festival, Tehran Milad Tower, Tehran, Iran, October 2023

Attended Workshops

"Proposal Writing", SSRC, Oct 2019

"Writing in Science" online course by Stanford University, Mar 2019

"Scientific Writing", USERN, Feb 2020

"Systematic Review", SRMEG, USERN, Feb 2020

"Meta-Analysis", SEMEG, USERN, Feb 2020

"Editing Book with International Publishers", USERN, Sep 2020

"Journal Selection, Submission, and Peer Reviewing of Assignments", USERN, Sep 2020

"Basic R", online course by DataCamp, Mar 2021

"Intermediate R", online course by DataCamp, Mar 2021

"DNA Extraction and PCR", theoretical and hands-on, USERN and RRC, Aug 2021

"Fundamentals of Cell Culture", theoretical and hands-on, USERN and SCRMC, Aug 2021

"Flow Cytometry", theoretical and hands-on, USERN and RCID, Aug 2021

"Bioinformatics", USERN, Aug 2021

"Interpreting NGS Results", USERN, Aug 2021

"Western Blot", theoretical and hands-on, USERN and RCID, Aug 2021

"Lab Animal Techniques", theoretical and hands-on, USERN, Aug 2021

"Primer Design", USERN, Aug 2021

Participated Congresses

The 5th International USERN Congress and Prize Awarding Festival |by USERN | Tehran, Iran | November 7th-10th, 2020

The 12th International Congress on Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases | by RCID | May 6th-9th, 2021

The 6th International USERN Congress and Prize Awarding Festival | by USERN | Istanbul, Turkey | November 10th-13th, 2021

The 13th International Congress on Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases | by RCID | April 24th-25th, 2022

Armenian Congress on Immunology and Allergology | by the Armenian Association of Molecular Immunology and Allergology | Yerevan, Armenia | May 16th-17th, 2022

The 7th International USERN Congress and Prize Awarding Festival | by USERN | Muscat, Oman | November 8th-10yh, 2022

Computer Skills

Microsoft Office (Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft Publisher)

Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere Pro cc

EndNote, SPSS

A basic level of python visual basic and C++ programming

Executive Activities

- Manager of Public Affairs, Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN) | 2019-2020

- Manager of media, design, and graphic team, Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN) | 2019-2020

- Head of Public Affairs, the 5th International USERN Congress and Prize Awarding Festival, Tehran, Iran | November 2020

- Manager of Advisory Board Affairs, Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN) | 2020-now

- Managing Director of Network of Immunity in Infection, malignancy and Autoimmunity (NIIMA), USERN | 2020-now

- Head of students' organizing committee of "Ghadr-e-Ostaad", a festival of appreciating the best professors of TUMS (school of medicine), 2020, 2021, and 2022

- Executive Manager of Students International Committee of Medical School (SICoMS), TUMS | 2020-2022

- Executive Manager of "the TUMS-KhNMU International USERN Spring e-Course", hosted by TUMS and KhNMU and USERN, 2021

- Manager of the 6th International USERN Congress and Prize Awarding Festival, Istanbul, Turkey | November 2021

- Director of the USERN Research Internship Program | March 2022-now 

- Deputy in charge of Support and Resource Development (SRD), USERN | 2022-2023

- Executive Director in Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), 2022-now

Scientific and Editorial Activities

- Managing Director and Scientific Writing/Research Mentor (mentoring about 30 junior researchers since 2020), Network of Immunity in Infection, malignancy and Autoimmunity (NIIMA) | Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN) | Under the supervision of Professor Nima Rezaei | 2020-now

- Editorial Assistant | Translational Immunology Book Series | Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Nima Rezaei | Published by Elsevier | 2020-2024 |

https://www.elsevier.com/books-and-journals/book-series/translational-immunology

- Research Assistant, Research Center for Immunodeficiency Diseases (RCID), Children's Medical Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), Tehran, Iran | Supervisor and Head of the Center: Professor Nima Rezaei | 2021-now

- Head of the USERN Research Internship Program (100 mentees and 19 mentors) | Under the supervision of Professor Nima Rezaei | 2022-now

Published Papers

Yazdanpanah N, Saghazadeh A, Rezaei N. Anosmia: a missing link in the neuroimmunology of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Reviews in the Neurosciences. 31(7), 691-701, https://doi.org/10.1515/revneuro-2020-0039

Mohamed K, Yazdanpanah N, Saghazadeh A, Rezaei N. Computational Drug Discovery and Repurposing for the Treatment of COVID-19: A Systematic Review. Bioorganic Chemistry. 2020,104490, ISSN 0045-2068, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bioorg.2020.104490 

Mohamed K, Yazdanpanah N, Saghazadeh A, Rezaei N. Cognitive Biases Affecting the Maintenance of COVID-19 Pandemic. Acta Biomed. 2021;92(2):e2021102. doi:10.23750/abm.v92i2.11073

Hanaei S, Sarzaeim M, Yazdanpanah N, Rahimi Pirkoohi Z, Ziaei H, Mohamed K, Samieefar N, Keshavarz-Fathi M, Kolahchi Z, Moradian N, Momtazmanesh S, Seyedpour S, Jaberipour A, Ashkevarian S, and Rezaei N. The Hybrid USERN 2020 Congress: New Standards for Events in Practice. Acta Medica Iranica. 2021. https://acta.tums.ac.ir/index.php/acta/article/view/9160/5491 

Sazgarnejad S, Yazdanpanah N, and Rezaei N. Anti-inflammatory effects of GLP-1 in patients with COVID-19, Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy, https://doi.org/10.1080/14787210.2021.1964955

Yazdanpanah N, Rezaei N. Autoimmune complications of COVID-19. J Med Virol. 2021; 1- 9.
https://doi.org/10.1002/jmv.27292

Eftekhar SP, Yazdanpanah N, Rezaei N. Immune checkpoint inhibitors and cardiotoxicity: possible mechanisms, manifestations, diagnosis and management. Expert review of anticancer therapy. 2021 Nov 2;21(11):1211-28.
https://doi.org/10.1080/14737140.2021.1979396

Moeinafshar A, Yazdanpanah N, Rezaei N. Diagnostic Biomarkers of Dilated Cardiomyopathy. Immunobiology. 2021 Nov 8:152153.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.imbio.2021.152153

Mansouri V, Yazdanpanah N, Rezaei N. The immunologic aspects of cytokine release syndrome and graft versus host disease following CAR T cell therapy. International Reviews of Immunology. 2021 Sep 22:1-20.
https://doi.org/10.1080/08830185.2021.1984449

Bayan N, Yazdanpanah N, Rezaei N. Role of Toll-Like Receptor 4 in Diabetic Retinopathy. Pharmacological research. 2021 Oct 28:105960.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phrs.2021.105960

Pourriyahi H, Yazdanpanah N, Saghazadeh A, Rezaei N. Loneliness: An Immunometabolic Syndrome. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021 Jan;18(22):12162.
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182212162

Abadi B, Yazdanpanah N, Nokhodchi A, Rezaei N. Smart Biomaterials to Enhance the Efficiency of Immunotherapy in Glioblastoma: State of the Art and Future Perspectives. Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews. 2021 Nov 2:114035.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addr.2021.114035

Soltani Khaboushan A, Yazdanpanah N, Rezaei N. Neuroinflammation and Proinflammatory Cytokines in Epileptogenesis. Mol Neurobiol, January 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12035-022-02725-6

Yazdanpanah N, Keshavarz-Fathi M, Ziaei H, Jaberipour A, Mirbeyk M, Hanaei S, Seyedpour S, Azami N, Akbarzadehmoallemkolaei M, Mohamed K, Samieefar N, Kolahchi Z, Kolahchi S, Rahimi Pirkoohi Z, Momtazmanesh S, Sarzaeim M, Moradian N, Sarkar Lotfabadi A, Loghman A, Ashkevarian S, Rezaei N. Universal Accreditation System (UAS): An Innovative Education and Research Credit Appraisal by USERN. Acta Med Iran. 2022;60(1):1-4. https://doi.org/10.18502/acta.v60i1.8321 

Mojtabavi K, Gholami M, Ghodsi Z, Mahmoodi M, Shool S, Kargar S, Yazdanpanah N, Vaccaro A, Rahimi-Movaghar V. Comparing natural hydrogels to self-assembling peptides in spinal cord injury treatment: a systematic review. F1000Research 2022, 11:16. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.74087.1

Mojtahedi H, Yazdanpanah N, Rezaei N. Chronic myeloid leukemia stem cells: targeting therapeutic implications. Stem Cell Res Ther 12, 603 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13287-021-02659-1

Fayyaz F, Yazdanpanah N, Rezaei N. Cytokine-induced killer cells mediated pathways in the treatment of colorectal cancer. Cell Commun Signal 20, 41 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12964-022-00836-0

Aliasin MM, Yazdanpanah N, Rezaei N. Neurological and neuropsychological adverse effects of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines - where do we stand? [published online ahead of print, 2022 Mar 25]. Rev Neurosci. doi:10.1515/revneuro-2022-0006

Abhari AP, Etemadifar M, Yazdanpanah N, Rezaei N. N-Methyl-D-Aspartate (NMDA)-Type Glutamate Receptors and Demyelinating Disorders: A Neuroimmune Perspective. Mini Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry. 2022 May 4.

Rahmani S, Yazdanpanah N, Rezaei N. Natural killer cells and acute myeloid leukemia: promises and challenges [published online ahead of print, 2022 May 31]. Cancer Immunol Immunother. 2022;10.1007/s00262-022-03217-1. doi:10.1007/s00262-022-03217-1

Moeinafshar A, Yazdanpanah N, Rezaei N.
Immune-based therapeutic approaches in COVID-19 [published online ahead of print, 2022 May 16]. Biomed Pharmacother. 2022;151:113107. doi:10.1016/j.biopha.2022.113107 

Heidari A, Yazdanpanah N, Rezaei N. The role of Toll-like receptors and neuroinflammation in Parkinson’s disease.
Journal of Neuroinflammation. 2022 Dec;19(1):1-21. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12974-022-02496-w

Yazdanpanah N, Rezaei N. Autoimmune disorders associated with common variable immunodeficiency: prediction, diagnosis, and treatment.
Expert Review of Clinical Immunology. 2022 Dec 2;18(12):1265-83. 

Yazdanpanah N, Ziaei H, Loghman A, Lotfabadi AS, Akbarzadehmoallemkolaei M, Zolfaghari K, Bagheri A, Tahmasbi Nejad MA, Mohamed K, Razi S, Eslami A, Mirbeyk M, Naserpour M, Jaberipour A, Ashkevarian S, Keshavarz-Fathi M, Rezaei N. USERNversity: A New Educational Innovation to Improve Young Scholars’ Skills via Extracurricular Programs. Acta Medica Iranica. Vol. 61, No. 1. 2023 Mar 11. 

Keshavarz-Fathi M, Yazdanpanah N, Kolahchi S, Ziaei H, Darmstadt G.L., Dorigo T, Dochy F, Levin L, Thongboonkerd V, Ogino S, Chen WH, Perc M, Tremblay M.S., Olusanya B.O., Rao I.M., Hatziargyriou N, Moradi-Lakeh M, Bella F, Rosivall L, Gandomi A.H., Sorooshian A, Gupta M, Gal C, Lozano A.M., Weaver C, Tanzer M, Poggi A, Sepanlou S.G., Weiskirchen R, Režek Jambrak A, Torres P.J., Capanoglu E, Barba F.J., Ernest C.K.J., Sigman M, Pluchino S, Gharehpetian G.B., Fereshtehnejad SM, Yang MH, Thomas S, Cai W, Comini E, Scolding N.J., Myles P.S., Nieto J.J., Perry G, Sedikides C, Rezaei N. Universal research index: An inclusive metric to quantify scientific research output. The Journal of Academic Librarianship. Volume 49, Issue 3, 2023, 102714, ISSN 0099-1333, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2023.102714.

Yazdanpanah N, Rezaei A, Ziaee V, Rezaei N. Study of NLRP3 Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Juvenile Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (JSLE), Immunological Investigations, 52:5, 598-615, 2023, doi: 10.1080/08820139.2023.2215280

Noori M, Yazdanpanah N, Rezaei N. Safety and efficacy of T-cell-redirecting bispecific antibodies for patients with multiple myeloma: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Cancer Cell Int 23, 193 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12935-023-03045-y

Rostam-Abadi Y, Rayzan E, Shahkarami S, Yazdanpanah N, Klein C, Rohlfs M, Rezaei N. A novel variant of RAG-1 mutation in a patient with cyclic neutropenia (ongoing)

Yazdanpanah N, Klein C, Rohlfs M, Rezaei N. A novel de novo mutation in CARD11 in a patient with hypogammaglobulinemia and severe eczema: A case report and review of the literature (ongoing)

Yazdanpanah N, Rezaei N. The multidisciplinary approach to diagnosing immunodeficiency. Journal: Expert Review of Clinical Immunology (accepted)

Book Chapters

- Rezaei N, Ashkevarian S, Keshavarz-Fathi M, Hanaei S, Kolahchi Z, Ladi Seyedian SS, Rayzan E, Sarzaeim M, Mohamed K, Momtazmanesh S, Moradian N, Rahimi Pirkoohi Z, Sameeifar N, Yousefpour M, Sargoli S, Adiban S, Vahed A, Yazdanpanah N, Ziaei H, Saghazadeh S. Introduction on Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic: The Global Challenge. In: Rezaei N (ed) Coronavirus Disease-COVID-19. Springer, 2021

- Yazdanpanah N, Mojtabavi H, Ziaei H, Rahimi Pirkoohi Z, Rayzan E, Rezaei N. The Clinical Benefits of Art Therapy; Definition, History and Outcomes with a Focus on Music Therapy. In: Rezaei N (ed) Integrated Science Book Series, Volume 3. Springer. 2021

- Rezaei N, Yazdanpanah N. Introduction on translational autoimmunity: from bench to bedside. In: Rezaei N (eds) Translational Immunology Book Series, Volume 1. Elsevier. 2021 . (IBSN: 9780128225646) https://www.elsevier.com/books/translational-autoimmunity/rezaei/978-0-12-822564-6 

- Rezaei N, Yazdanpanah N. Introduction on therapeutic opportunities for autoimmunity. In: Rezaei N (eds) Translational Immunology Book Series, Volume 2. Elsevier. 2021. (IBSN: 9780128243909) https://www.elsevier.com/books/translational-autoimmunity/rezaei/978-0-12-824390-9 

- Rezaei N, Yazdanpanah N. Introduction on autoimmunity and associated conditions. In: Rezaei N (eds) Translational Immunology Book Series, Volume 3. Elsevier. 2021. (IBSN: 9780323854153) https://www.elsevier.com/books/translational-autoimmunity/rezaei/978-0-323-85415-3 

- Rezaei N, Yazdanpanah N. Introduction on autoimmune diseases. In: Rezaei N (eds) Translational Immunology Book Series, Volume 4. Elsevier. 2022

- Yazdanpanah N, Rezaei N. Introduction on Challenges for autoimmune diseases. In: Rezaei N (eds) Translational Immunology Book Series, Volume 5. Elsevier. 2022

- Yazdanpanah N, Rezaei N. Introduction on autoimmune Rheumatic diseases. In: Rezaei N (eds) Translational Immunology Book Series, Volume 6. Elsevier. 2022

- Rezaei N, Saghazadeh A, Ghani AR, Vedadhir A, Vahed A, Vellido A, Afshar A, Zali A, Kushniruk A, Blacutt AA, Pennisi A, ....,
Yazdanpanah N, ...., Idris Z, Izadi Z. Integrated Science 2050: Multidisciplinarity and Interdisciplinarity in Health. In: Rezaei N. Multidisciplinarity and Interdisciplinarity in Health 2022 (pp. 661-690). Springer, Cham.

- Yazdanpanah N, Rezaei N. Interdisciplinary Approaches in Cancer Research, In: Rezaei N (eds) Interdisciplinary Cancer Research, Volume 1. Springer. 2022/2023

- Yazdanpanah N, Dochy F, Darmstadt GL, Peters GJ, Tsitlakidis A, Aifantis EC, Cerda A, Comini E, Brand S, Gupta M, Cheson BD, Thomas S, Tanzer M, Weiskirchen R, Bella F, Fereshtehnejad SM, Nikita K, Ali I, Kato K, Poggi A, Jon ECK, Rao IM, Tao X, He JH, Rao LJM, Leemans A, Pompoino A, Hernandez AM, Ahmadieh H, Sahraian MA, Kelishadi R, Tongboonkerd V, Bahinipathi S, Toi M, von Herrath M, Sellke F, Sherwood A, Perry G, Nieto JJ, Gupta S, Dorigo T, Mobasher B, Ochs H, Rezaei N. Cancer: A Complex Problem Requiring Interdisciplinary Research. In: Interdisciplinary Cancer Research book series. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/16833_2022_116

- Yazdanpanah N, Rezaei N. Introduction on Neuroinflammation. In: Rezaei N (eds) Translational Immunology Book Series, Volume 7. Elsevier. 2023. 

- Yazdanpanah N, Rezaei N. Introduction to the Neuroimmunology of Multiple Sclerosis. In: Rezaei N (eds) Translational Immunology Book Series, Volume 8. Elsevier. 2023. 

Books

Editorial Assistant in: Rezaei N. Translational Autoimmunity: Etiology of Autoimmune Diseases, 2021, Elsevier (ISBN 978-0128225646)

Editorial Assistant in: Rezaei N. Translational Autoimmunity: Treatment of Autoimmune Diseases, 2022, Elsevier (ISBN 978-0128243909)

Editorial Assistant in: Rezaei N. Translational Autoimmunity: Autoimmune Disease Associated with Different Clinical Features, 2022, Elsevier (ISBN 9780323854153)

Editorial Assistant in: Rezaei N. Translational Autoimmunity: Autoimmune Diseases in Different Organs, 2022, Elsevier (ISBN 9780128244661)

Editorial Assistant in: Rezaei N. Translational Autoimmunity Challenges for Autoimmune Diseases, 2022, Elsevier (ISBN 9780323853897)

Editorial Assistant in: Rezaei N. Translational Autoimmunity: Advances in Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases, 2023, Elsevier (ISBN 9780323858311)

Co-Editor in: Rezaei N, Yazdanpanah N. Translational Neuroimmunology: Neuroinflammation, 2023, Elsevier (ISBN 9780323858410)

Co-Editor in: Rezaei N, Yazdanpanah N. Translational Neuroimmunology: Multiple Sclerosis, 2023, Elsevier (ISBN 9780443185786)

Oral Presentations

Autoimmune Complications of COVID-19. At "the 6th International USERN Congress", Istanbul, Turkey; November 2021 

Autoimmunity in the COVID-19 Era. At "the Armenian Congress on Immunology and Allergology", Yerevan State Medical University, Yerevan, Armenia; May 2022

Autoimmune and Autoinflammatory Conditions in Association with SARS-CoV-2 Infection.
At "Insights into the Pathology of COVID-19" Conference, Russian-Armenian University, Yerevan, Armenia; May 2022

Vaccine Hesitancy: Lesson Learned for Future Pandemics. At "the 7th International USERN Congress", Muscat, Oman; November 2022 

Poster Presentations 

Anosmia: A missing link in the neuroimmunology of COVID-19 | At the 5th International USERN Congress, Tehran, Iran | November 2020

A novel variant of RAG-1 mutation in a patient with cyclic neutropenia | At the 1st TUMS-KhNMU International USERN Spring e-Course | April-May 2021

Executive Experiences

- Co-administration manager of “Eidi-e-Mehr”, Kish-e-Mehr charity, TUMS | 2017

- Ambassador and orator in ISOD (Iranian society of organ donation) | 2018-now

- Member of the organization committee, “the 1^st winter course of MES” (medical ethics school) | Jan 2019

- Executive committee member, NeuroTRACT 2019 international summer school | Aug 2019

- Member of the graphic designing team: SSRC, NeuroTRACT, and SICoMS | 2019

- Facilitator at NeuroTRACT, 'soft skills workshop' by IMSA, and DANA (a medical education course) | 2019

- Organization committee in Diabetes Campaign, HIV/AIDS Campaign, and Mental Health Project, IMSA | 2018-2019

Skills & Abilities

time management and planning

graphic design

Research Interests

Immunology

Genetics

Inborn Errors of Immunity

Autoimmunity

Cancer Immunology

Psychoneuroimmunology

languages

Persian

English

Hobbies

reading books

cycling

mountain climbing

nature enthusiastic

painting and sketching