Education

  • University of Tehran, Iran, BS, 2010, Biotechnology
  • University of Tehran, Iran, MS, 2011, Medical Biotechnology
  • Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, PhD, 2016, Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology

Honors & Awards

  • 2006-2011
    Iranian Ministry of Science, research and technology fellowship for exceptional talents. University of Tehran fellowship for scientific Olympiad awardees.
  • 2016
    International Society for Stem Cell Research Travel Award, 14th annual meeting, San Francisco
  • 2016
    Julian R. Rachele Prize for outstanding research publications, Weill Cornell Medicine
  • 2017
    Distinguished Student Commencement Award, Weill Cornell Medicine

Selected Publications

  1. Majd H, Cesiulis A, Samuel RM, Richter MN, Elder N, Wen KW, Guyer RA, Hao MM, Stamp LA, Goldstein AM, Fattahi F A call for a unified and multimodal definition of cellular identity in the enteric nervous system.  View on PubMed
  2. Majd H, Samuel RM, Cesiulis A, Ramirez JT, Kalantari A, Barber K, Farahvashi S, Ghazizadeh Z, Majd A, Chemel AK, Richter MN, Das S, Bendrick JL, Keefe MG, Wang J, Shiv RK, Bhat S, Khoroshkin M, Yu J, Nowakowski TJ, Wen KW, Goodarzi H, Thapar N, Kaltschmidt JA, McCann CJ, Fattahi F. Engrafted nitrergic neurons derived from hPSCs improve gut dysmotility in mice. Nature. 2025 Jun 25.  View on PubMed
  3. Majd H, Richter MN, Samuel RM, Kalantari A, Ramirez JT, Fattahi F Differentiation of Enteric Nervous System Lineages from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells.  View on PubMed
  4. Scantlen MD, Majd H, Fattahi F Modeling enteric glia development, physiology and disease using human pluripotent stem cells.  View on PubMed
  5. Majd H, Amin S, Ghazizadeh Z, Cesiulis A, Arroyo E, Lankford K, Majd A, Farahvashi S, Chemel AK, Okoye M, Scantlen MD, Tchieu J, Calder EL, Le Rouzic V, Shibata B, Arab A, Goodarzi H, Pasternak G, Kocsis JD, Chen S, Studer L, Fattahi F. Deriving Schwann cells from hPSCs enables disease modeling and drug discovery for diabetic peripheral neuropathy. Cell Stem Cell. 2023 05 04; 30(5):632-647.e10.  View on PubMed
  6. Samuel RM, Navickas A, Maynard A, Gaylord EA, Garcia K, Bhat S, Majd H, Richter MN, Elder N, Le D, Nguyen P, Shibata B, Llabata ML, Selleri L, Laird DJ, Darmanis S, Goodarzi H, Fattahi F. Generation of Schwann cell derived melanocytes from hPSCs identifies pro-metastatic factors in melanoma. bioRxiv. 2023 Mar 07.  View on PubMed
  7. Stevens AJ, Harris AR, Gerdts J, Kim KH, Trentesaux C, Ramirez JT, McKeithan WL, Fattahi F, Klein OD, Fletcher DA, Lim WA. Programming multicellular assembly with synthetic cell adhesion molecules. Nature. 2023 02; 614(7946):144-152.  View on PubMed
  8. Elder N, Fattahi F, McDevitt TC, Zholudeva LV. Diseased, differentiated and difficult: Strategies for improved engineering of in vitro neurological systems. Front Cell Neurosci. 2022; 16:962103.  View on PubMed
  9. Richter MN, Fattahi F. Stem Cell-Based Models for Studying the Effects of Cancer and Cancer Therapies on the Peripheral Nervous System. Adv Biol (Weinh). 2022 09; 6(9):e2200009.  View on PubMed
  10. Samuel RM, Majd H, Richter MN, Fattahi F. Androgens increase excitement in brain organoid research. Cell Stem Cell. 2022 04 07; 29(4):495-497.  View on PubMed
  11. Ghazizadeh Z, Zhu J, Fattahi F, Tang A, Sun X, Amin S, Tsai SY, Khalaj M, Zhou T, Samuel RM, Zhang T, Ortega FA, Gordillo M, Moroziewicz D, NYSCF Global Stem Cell Array® Team, Paull D, Noggle SA, Xiang JZ, Studer L, Christini DJ, Pitt GS, Evans T, Chen S. A dual SHOX2:GFP; MYH6:mCherry knockin hESC reporter line for derivation of human SAN-like cells. iScience. 2022 Apr 15; 25(4):104153.  View on PubMed
  12. Ghafouri-Fard S, Abak A, Tondro Anamag F, Shoorei H, Fattahi F, Javadinia SA, Basiri A, Taheri M. 5-Fluorouracil: A Narrative Review on the Role of Regulatory Mechanisms in Driving Resistance to This Chemotherapeutic Agent. Front Oncol. 2021; 11:658636.  View on PubMed
  13. Ghafouri-Fard S, Abak A, Fattahi F, Hussen BM, Bahroudi Z, Shoorei H, Taheri M. The interaction between miRNAs/lncRNAs and nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) in human disorders. Biomed Pharmacother. 2021 Jun; 138:111519.  View on PubMed
  14. Nix MA, Mandal K, Geng H, Paranjape N, Lin YT, Rivera JM, Marcoulis M, White KL, Whitman JD, Bapat SP, Parker KR, Ramirez J, Deucher A, Phojanokong P, Steri V, Fattahi F, Hann BC, Satpathy AT, Manglik A, Stieglitz E, Wiita AP. Surface Proteomics Reveals CD72 as a Target for In Vitro-Evolved Nanobody-Based CAR-T Cells in KMT2A/MLL1-Rearranged B-ALL. Cancer Discov. 2021 08; 11(8):2032-2049.  View on PubMed
  15. Ghazizadeh Z, Fattahi F, Mirzaei M, Bayersaikhan D, Lee J, Chae S, Hwang D, Byun K, Tabar MS, Taleahmad S, Mirshahvaladi S, Shabani P, Fonoudi H, Haynes PA, Baharvand H, Aghdami N, Evans T, Lee B, Salekdeh GH. Prospective Isolation of ISL1+ Cardiac Progenitors from Human ESCs for Myocardial Infarction Therapy. Stem Cell Reports. 2021 Mar 09; 16(3):666-668.  View on PubMed
  16. Xiong C, Chua KC, Stage TB, Priotti J, Kim J, Altman-Merino A, Chan D, Saraf K, Canato Ferracini A, Fattahi F, Kroetz DL. Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Derived Sensory Neurons are Sensitive to the Neurotoxic Effects of Paclitaxel. Clin Transl Sci. 2021 03; 14(2):568-581.  View on PubMed
  17. Samuel RM, Majd H, Richter MN, Ghazizadeh Z, Zekavat SM, Navickas A, Ramirez JT, Asgharian H, Simoneau CR, Bonser LR, Koh KD, Garcia-Knight M, Tassetto M, Sunshine S, Farahvashi S, Kalantari A, Liu W, Andino R, Zhao H, Natarajan P, Erle DJ, Ott M, Goodarzi H, Fattahi F. Androgen Signaling Regulates SARS-CoV-2 Receptor Levels and Is Associated with Severe COVID-19 Symptoms in Men. Cell Stem Cell. 2020 12 03; 27(6):876-889.e12.  View on PubMed
  18. Ghazizadeh Z, Majd H, Richter M, Samuel R, Zekavat SM, Asgharian H, Farahvashi S, Kalantari A, Ramirez J, Zhao H, Natarajan P, Goodarzi H, Fattahi F. Androgen Regulates SARS-CoV-2 Receptor Levels and Is Associated with Severe COVID-19 Symptoms in Men. bioRxiv. 2020 May 15.  View on PubMed
  19. Monje M, Borniger JC, D'Silva NJ, Deneen B, Dirks PB, Fattahi F, Frenette PS, Garzia L, Gutmann DH, Hanahan D, Hervey-Jumper SL, Hondermarck H, Hurov JB, Kepecs A, Knox SM, Lloyd AC, Magnon C, Saloman JL, Segal RA, Sloan EK, Sun X, Taylor MD, Tracey KJ, Trotman LC, Tuveson DA, Wang TC, White RA, Winkler F. Roadmap for the Emerging Field of Cancer Neuroscience. Cell. 2020 04 16; 181(2):219-222.  View on PubMed
  20. Rajendra C, Wald T, Barber K, Spence JR, Fattahi F, Klein OD. Generation of Knockout Gene-Edited Human Intestinal Organoids. Methods Mol Biol. 2020; 2171:215-230.  View on PubMed

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