Zahra Hashemi

Location

Hoboken, NJ
Union City, NJ
Education
    Stevens Institute of Technology
    December 2021 - May 2025
    degree
    Ph.D
    major
    Chemical Biology
    Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences
Work Experience
    Stevens Institute of Technology NJ
    Research Assistant
    September 2021 - present
    company
    Stevens Institute of Technology NJ
    title
    Research Assistant
    overview
    - Project: The effect of Smad4 gene in promoting the wound healing in an IBD mice model - Determination of inflammation and proliferation in the IBD mice model of Smad4 KO using - Immunohistochemistry, immunofluorescence staining of different immune markers - Preparing RNA and DNA samples for RNA sequencing - Western blotting to determine expression of inflammatory and cell cycle proteins - Analyze immune markers population (pro and anti-inflammatory) by flow cytometry - Project: Evaluating the effect of Smad4 on secreting different type of collagen from epithelial cells - Evaluation of Smad4 KO on the different types of collagens secreted from epithelial cells in the direction of wound - Coculture the colonic epithelial cells and fibroblasts - Immunohistochemistry staining
    Community Pharmacies of Tehran
    Responsible Pharmacist
    IR
    March 2014 - August 2021
    Pasteur Institute of Iran
    Quality Assurance Specialist
    September 2018 - September 2020
    Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences
    Research Assistant
    IR
    January 2015 - December 2017
Skills
Languages
EnglishPersian
Skills
Cancer ResearchChemical BiologyFlow CytometryGraphPad PrismImmunofluorescenceImmunohistochemistryKnowledge of MedicineKnowledge of StatisticsMicrosoft OfficeReal-Time Polymerase Chain ReactionsRNA SequencingWestern Blot