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Shiraz Institute for Cancer Research, opened in June 1998, is located on Shiraz School of medicine main campus at Zand Avenue. The institute is the first nation’s comprehensive center in which both immunological and biological aspects of cancer are under investigation.
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Immunology and molecular genetics of cancer, biomarker discovery, gene therapy, stem cell research and antibody production are the focus of our investigation. BioBank, Cancer Immunology, Cancer Proteomics, Stem Cell, Gene Therapy and R & D are the research groups at the Institute.
Flowcytometry
Four color flowcytometerequipped with sorter for cell characteristic analyzing, cell cycle analyzing and apoptosis study.
Sequencing

One capillary- 5 color DNA sequencer, for DNA sequencing and fragment analysis.
An acinar cell carcinoma line isolated from a female patient with pancreatic cancer established in shiraz institute of cancer research.
Cell stained with A: Vimentin B: Desmin C: Double staines with Desmin-Vimentin

Our affiliation

Shiraz Institute for Cancer Research (ICR)
School of Medicine
Shiraz University of Medical Sciences
P.O. Box: 71345-3119

Email: icr@sums.ac.ir

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Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

Up to two postdoctoral fellows are now available at Shiraz Institute for Cancer Research under supervision of Dr. Ghaderi, ICR director. For more information, please contact to Dr. Ghaderi at ghaderia@sums.ac.ir

Journal Clubs and Seminars

The journal clubs or seminars meet regularly every two weeks for one hour, 8:30-9:30 A.M. on Sunday in lecture room, to review current research about clinical practice especially in the field of cancer research. ...

Highly cited papers

1. Cytotoxic T lymphocyte antigen-4 promoter variants in breast cancer. (51 citations)
2. Adipose derived stem cells (ASCs) isolated from breast cancer tissue express .... (31 citations)
3. Treatment of osteoarthritis with infrapatellar fat pad derived mesenchymal stem cells in Rabbit (26 citations)
4. CTLA4 gene variants in autoimmunity and cancer: A comparative review. (20 citations)
5. IL-18 serum level and IL-18 promoter gene polymorphism in Iranian patients with gastrointestinal cancers (18 citations)

New publications

1. Ziaian B, Saberi A, Ghayyoumi MA, Safaei A, Ghaderi A, Mojtahedi Z. Association of high LDH and low glucose levels in pleural space with HER2 expression in non-small cell lung cancer. Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP. 2014;15(4):1617-20.

2. Taghipour Fard Ardekani M, Malekzadeh M, Hosseini SV, Bordbar E, Doroudchi M, Ghaderi A. Evaluation of Pre-Treatment Serum Levels of IL-7 and GM-CSF in Colorectal Cancer Patients. International journal of molecular and cellular medicine. 2014;3(1):27-34.

3. Sarvari J, Mojtahedi Z, Kuramitsu Y, Fattahi MR, Ghaderi A, Nakamura K, et al. Comparative Proteomics of Sera From HCC Patients With Different Origins. Hepatitis monthly. 2014;14(1):e13103.

4. Sanaee MN, Malekzadeh M, Khezri A, Ghaderi A, Doroudchi M. Soluble CD138/Syndecan-1 Increases in the Sera of Patients with Moderately Differentiated Bladder Cancer. Urologia internationalis. 2014.

5. Rezaeifard S, Razmkhah M, Robati M, Momtahan M, Ghaderi A. Adipose derived stem cells isolated from omentum: a novel source of chemokines for ovarian cancer growth. Journal of cancer research and therapeutics. 2014;10(1):159-64.

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