Mahtab Avijgan

Mahtab Avijgan

Phd Student
Visiting address: BioMedicum A4, Solnavägen 9, 17165 Solna
Postal address: K6 Kvinnors och barns hälsa, K6 Barnonkologi och Barnkirurgi Blomgren Newton, 171 77 Stockholm

About me

  • I studied bachelor of Biomedical Science at University of Newcastle,
    Australia. Then I moved to Gothenburg, Sweden to study master program in
    Biotechnology at Chalmers University of Technology. The topic for master's
    thesis was focused on differentiation and characterization of MafA-GFP
    reporter iPS cells into pancreatic beta cell lineage, undertaken in
    Department of Discovery Science at AstraZeneca. Since September 2021, I
    started doctoral study in Department of Women's and Children's Health at
    Karolinska Institutet under the supervision of Dr. Phillip Newton, in the
    group of Prof. Klas Blomgren.
    Bachelor of Biomedical Science
    * Dissertation topic: Using microarray and bioinformatics analysis to detect
    links between mutations in HFE gene and hemochromatosis and how these
    mutations can influence EPN2 gene expression.
    Master Program in Biotechnology
    * Thesis topic: Differentiation and characterization of MafA-GFP reporter
    iPS cells into pancreatic beta cell lineage.
    Doctoral Study in Skeletal Development
    * Project topic: Does a stem cell niche allow postnatal bone growth in
    human?

Research

  • In the doctoral project, I will investigate how the long-bones grow and what
    maintains this growth throughout childhood in order to understand and reveal
    the fundamental mechanisms of human growth.

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