Mahmood Reza Amiry-Moghaddam

Academic interests

• Brain volume regulation and osmosensing
• Physiopathological roles of aquaporins in the brain
• Novel mechanisms of disease and therapeutical targets in the neurodegenerative disorders
• Role of the brain extracellular matrix in health and disease

Other interests

• Human rights

Courses taught

• Anatomy, 3. Semester, Medicine

Background

• M.D. from the University of Oslo (UiO) 1996
• PhD in 2003 (UiO)
• Postdoc at the Department of Developmental Biology
• Harvard School of Dental Medicine in 2006
• Group leader at the Laboratory for Molecular Neuroscience (LMN) since 2009-

Other

• Research director at the Section for biology and medicine, OxySolutions AS since November 2010

Awards

• His Majesty the King’s Gold medal for the best medical PhD at the University of Oslo
• Amnesy International Norway’s human rights prize 2007
• Anders Jahre’s medical prize for young investigators 2008
• Member of the Norwegian Acadamy of Science and Letters since 2008

Positions held

• Group leader, Laboratory for Molecular Neuroscience
• Research Director, Section for Biology and Medicine, Oxysolutions
• Leader and spokesperson for the non-governmental organization “Iran Human Rights”

Collaboration

• Peter Agre (Nobel Laureate in 2003): Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
• Bjorn R. Olsen, Department of Developmental Biology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine
• John Rash, State University of Colorado
• Stefano Ferroni, Department of Human and General Physiology, University of Bologna
• Roberto Zamboni, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Istituto per lo Studio dei Materiali Nanostrutturati (ISMN), Bologna