Speakers

Mohammad Abdolahad

Place of Birth : Iran
Position : Associate Professor, School of ECE, University of Tehran; Adjunct Tehran University Medical Sci., Iran
Field of study : Cancer Electronics, Electrotechnical Oncosurgery, Nanobioelectronics

Dr. Mohammad Abdolahad was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1982. During recent years, he achieved much success including filing more than 20 US patents and publishing more than 50 papers in prominent journals, mostly in the field of cancer detection by nanoelectronic devices. He won the “Best Young Inventor” medal of WIPO in 2016 based on his research and developed systems on the technology of cancer diagnosis. He received the “Best Young Scientist from Iran Academy of Science”. Since 2016, he has been an adjunct professor at Tehran University of Medical Sciences. He is undergoing to develop the “electrotechnical oncosurgery” as a new joint Fellowship-Postdoc between surgery and electrical engineering disciplines. Abdolahad describes his field of research as “fighting cancer with the assistance of electronics in terms of diagnostics, from science to product.” In fact, he is working at the intersection of diverse scientific disciplines, a key point where breakthroughs in science often happen. At age 37, it seems he is in the right place at the right time. He is thinking about another ambitious goal, but he says “Let me not say. It is confidential.” However, he believes “finding the electrical signature of cancer initiation”, and “how to electrically control the cancer function to prevent its destructive effects on the body” are two of the most important questions in his field of research and their answers may lead to breakthroughs. He describes himself as “a person with plenty of questions, someone whose knowledge is always lower than what is needed to tackle his unsolved problems but wants to know more and more”. He believes he may be able to help humans for a better life if he reduces his ignorance and increases his experience. Abdolahad, one of the laureates of the 2019 Mustafa(pbuh) Prize from Islamic countries, and his team achieved much success, including filing more than 20 US patents and publishing more than 50 papers in prominent journals. In a 2017 paper published in Nature Communications, Abdolahad introduced a new microelectronic biochip, called Metas-Chip that can precisely identify the presence of micro-metastasis in biopsy samples.