Biography
Dr. Masoomeh Eghtedari is a research associate at Ontario Tech University in Ontario, Canada.
She studied medicine and ophthalmology at Shiraz Medical School. She is a board certified ophthalmologist from Iran and Canada. Her field of interest is ocular pathology and she is a member of Canadian Ophthalmic Pathology Society.
She completed an ocular pathology fellowship in Iran and attended in a uveitis/ocular pathology fellowship in Montreal, Canada.
She funded a knowledge- based company in Shiraz focusing on limbal stem cell research. A patent related to limbal stem cell culture product has been registered in Iran. Meanwhile, she is one of the funders of ocular pathology fellowship training program at the Shiraz University of Medical Sciences in collaboration with Shahid Beheshti University.
She also attended in a Biotechnology program in Ontario, Canada and graduated with honor.
Currently, she is involved in conducting research projects focusing on the effect of hypoxia on cells. Furthermore, she is actively involved in the education of PhD and undergraduate students at the Faculty of Health Sciences of Ontario Tech University in Canada.
She is also in the process of publishing a color atlas of ocular pathology.