Amir A. Mehrabani-Tabari
Baltimore,MD
Summary
Versatile researcher trained on a wide range of techniques who is also very passionate about learning new skills. As a former community pharmacist and pharmacy manager who successfully transitioned into wet lab research, now, I know it's time to transition into being a hybrid biologist with both wet and dry lab skills to adapt to the future of biomedical research.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Manager
Mollasadra Pharmacy
12.2003 - 07.2017
- Pharmacist in charge
- Management of supply inventories
- Resolving insurance conflicts and other billing issues
- Staff recruitment and train new technicians
- Team management and implement in-store programs to increase sales
- Coordination of staff schedule
- Prioritizing tasks and organizing workflow to increase efficiency
- Regular communications with physicians, nurses, suppliers, and insurance companies
- Filling and dispensing an average of 100 prescriptions per day
- Regular inspection of storage sites and monitoring expiration dates
Responsible Pharmacist
Health Center of Tehran North-West
10.2011 - 10.2013
- Inspection of private pharmacies to monitor their methods and storage standards
- Inspection of healthcare centers to monitor their methods, storage standards, and their drug consumption documentation
- Evaluation of healthcare centers’ drugs and medical devices orders based on their consumption documentation
- Request the invoice from distribution companies on approved orders
- Refer the approved orders and the official invoices to financiers to get the demanded fund
- Attending weekly and monthly report sessions to announce the statistics of supply and demand for drugs and medical devices in our region for the policymakers of the national health organization to make decisions related to funding issues
- Train pharmacy technicians and other staff on proper service and good storage and distribution practice
Pharmacist
Drug and Poison Information Center of Shahid Beheshti Medical University, Food and Drug Administration Office
05.2011 - 07.2012
- Responded patients and healthcare professionals’ questions on the phone about drug and poison information
- Collected the history and identity information of the patients in complicated cases
- Provided consultations to patients about adverse drug reactions and their interactions
- Followed poisoned patients after they were cured
- Help patients with finding their demanded medications in cases of shortage using the daily updated list of authorized available sources
- Inform pregnant women about which drugs they are allowed to take
- Attending weekly journal club of pharmacotherapy at Food and Drug Administration Office
- Fill adverse drug reaction forms and report them officially to the ministry of health
Education
Molecular Medicine - Ph.D Candidate
University of Maryland Baltimore, School of Medicine
W. Baltimore St., Baltimore, MD, 2120102.2025
MS - Biotechnology
Johns Hopkins University
Krieger School Of Arts And Sciences, Baltimore, MD05.2019
Pharm.D -
Azad University, School of Pharmacy
Yakhchal St., Shariati St., Tehran, Iran02.2010
Skills
- Controlled cortical impact in mouse brain (including craniotomy)
- Flow cytometry (panel design, sample prep, running the flow machine Aurora, analysis by FCS-Express)
- Density gradient fractionation for organelle isolation (lysosomes) from brain tissue and cells
- Live cell isolation from mouse brain tissue for scRNA-seq and flow
- Nuclei extraction from frozen brain tissue for snRNA-seq
- Immunohistochemistry and immunocytochemistry staining/imaging and analysis with NIS from Nikon
- Cell culture and general wet lab molecular biology skills (western, qPCR, transfection, etc)
- Single cell RNA sequencing data analysis with Seurat
- Python (intermediate)
- Project management
Presentations
- Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, 2024, Myelin Phagocytosis by Mononuclear Phagocytes contributes to Inflammation after Traumatic Brain Injury (Oral Presentation)
- National Capital Area TBI Research Symposium, College Park, MD, 2023, Lysosomal Lipid Accumulation Leads to Inhibition of Autophagy in Microglia & Macrophages after TBI. (Oral Presentation)
- Society for Neuroscience, Washington, D.C. 2023, Lipid Accumulation in Mononuclear Phagocytes Impairs Autophagy and Contributes to Inflammation after Traumatic Brain Injury
- National Neurotrauma Society annual meeting, Atlanta, 2022, Lipid accumulation in mononuclear phagocytes impairs autophagy and contributes to inflammation after traumatic brain injury.
- Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, 2022, Lipid Accumulation in Mononuclear Phagocytes Impairs Autophagy and Contributes to Inflammation after Traumatic Brain Injury.
Professional Memberships And Awards
- Member of Iran Pharmacists Association, 2010
- Member of Medical Council of Iran, 2013
- Member of National Neurotrauma Society, 2022
- Member of Society for Neuroscience, 2022
- Trainee Professional Development Award, SfN, 2022
Personal Information
Title: Ph.D. Candidate
Publications
- J.K. Sterling, T.I. Kam, S. Guttha, H. Park, B. Baumann, A.A. Mehrabani-Tabari, H. Schultz, B. Anderson, A. Alnemri, S.C. Chou, J.C. Troncoso, V.L. Dawson, T.M. Dawson, J.L. Dunaief, Interleukin-6 triggers toxic neuronal iron sequestration in response to pathological α-synuclein, Cell Reports, 2022, 38, 7, 110358, 35172141
- H. Park, T.I. Kam, H. Peng, S.C. Chou, A.A. Mehrabani-Tabari, J.J. Song, X. Ying, S.S. Karuppagounder, G.K. Umanah, A.V.S. Rao, Y.R. Choi, A. Aggarwal, S. Chang, H. Kim, J. Byun, J.O. Liu, T.M. Dawson, VL. Dawson, PAAN/MIF nuclease inhibition prevents neurodegeneration in Parkinson’s disease, Cell, 2022, 185, 11, 1943-1959.e21, 35545089
- S.E. Arambula, M. Perez-Pouchoulen, J. Waddell, A.R.R. Leite, E.L. Graham, A.A. Mehrabani-Tabari, M.M. McCarthy, Hypoxia-Ischemia During a Neonatal Sensitive Period Alters Purkinje Neuron Dendritic Complexity Differently in Male and Female Rats, submitted, Scientific Reports
- A.A. Mehrabani-Tabari, N. Hegdekar, S. Bustos, Y. Morel, Y. Ji, S. Arefin Kachi, O. Pettyjohn-Robin, S. Thapa, M. Bhattiprolu, M.M. Lipinski, J.W. Jones, C. Sarkar, Peroxisomal ether-phospholipids synthesis is dysregulated after TBI, Journal of Lipid Research, 2025, in review
- A.A. Mehrabani-Tabari, N. Hegdekar, S. Thapa, S. Bustos, Y. Morel, S. Arefin Kachi, O. Pettyjohn-Robin, J.W. Jones, C. Sarkar, M.M. Lipinski, Myelin phagocytosis by mononuclear phagocytes contributes to inflammation after traumatic brain injury, 2025, in preparation
Research
- University of Maryland Baltimore, Shock and Trauma and Anesthesiology Research (STAR) group, Dr. Marta M Lipinski’s Lab, since November 2020, Investigate the role of lipids metabolism imbalance in microglia and infiltrating macrophages after TBI.
- Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Institute of Cell Engineering (ICE), Dr. Dawson’s Lab, Intern, from April 2018 until July 2019, Identification of PARP1 dependent cell death (Parthanatos) pathway in Parkinson’s disease.
Timeline
Responsible Pharmacist
Health Center of Tehran North-West
10.2011 - 10.2013
Pharmacist
Drug and Poison Information Center of Shahid Beheshti Medical University, Food and Drug Administration Office
05.2011 - 07.2012
Manager
Mollasadra Pharmacy
12.2003 - 07.2017
Molecular Medicine - Ph.D Candidate
University of Maryland Baltimore, School of Medicine
MS - Biotechnology
Johns Hopkins University
Pharm.D -
Azad University, School of Pharmacy