Professional Activities

Additional Formal Education/Professional Development

• Postdoctoral research fellow funded by Wellcome Trust, Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
• Research project title: Inositol metabolism in mycobacteria, 1998-2001
• Postdoctoral research fellow funded by Medical Research Council, Mycobacterial research group, National Institute for Medical Research, London, UK,
• Research project title: Study the expression of DNA damage-inducible genes of M. tuberculosis using real-time PCR, 1996-1998

Honors, Recognitions and Awards

Honors

• Employee of the Month, selected by the students from Harold Washington College, March 2015
• Selected into the VIP woman of the year circle, National Association of Professional Woman, 2014-2015
• Work selected as picture of the day by American Society for Microbiology (ASM), 9/30/14
• Leadership Council, SENCER Center for Innovation in Midwest, 2014
• Leadership fellow, National Center for Science & Civic Engagement (SENCER), one of 9 out of 2500 applicants, June 2012
• Editorial board: OMICS Publishing Group- Journal of Glycomics & Lipidomics, 2010- present
• Editorial board: OMICS Publishing Group- Journal of Mycobacterial Diseases, 2011- present
• Editorial board: Microbiology subject area within "Dataset Papers in Biology", 2012-present
• Manuscript reviewer: Microbiology, Vaccine, British Journal of Education, Society & Behavioural Science, PLOS ONE
• Associate member, Graduate College, UIC, 2010- Present
• Grant Reviewer: National Institute of Health (NIH) - LRP grant review, 2007

Awards and fellowships

• Professional Development Award, Chancellor's Committee on the Status of Women, UIC, 2012
• Bio-Link fellowship, Bio-Link Summer workshop, Berkeley, CA, 2010
• Post-Institute Implementation sub-award, SENCER, 2009
• National Institute for Medical Research, UK, awarded exceptional performances, 1997
• Fellowship from World Health Organization (WHO) awarded to study for PhD at National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR), United Kingdom, 1993-1996
• Medical Sciences University of Iran, awarded the highest grade in Medical doctoral degree, 1992