Amol University of Special Modern Technologies
DariaTech
Ali Mohammadian

Biography :

Dr. Ali Mohammadian received his Integrated Ph.D. in Biotechnology from the University of Tehran in 2014. His primary research focus is the analysis of biological data using bioinformatics and statistical approaches.

He has published numerous scientific articles in various fields of genetics, including studies on addiction, cancer biology, the effects of plant-derived compounds on cancer cells, and drug repositioning.

He is currently serving as an Assistant Professor of Biotechnology in the Department of Biotechnology at Amol University of Special Modern Technologies, where he is actively engaged in teaching and research.

 

Academic Appointment
Assistant Professor of Biotechnology
Amol University of Special Modern Technologies
2023 – Present

Scientific documents :

Ph.D. in Biotechnology (Integrated Program)
University of Tehran
2014
Doctoral Dissertation Title:
Investigation of the Effects of Sulfur Mustard on Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells

Honors and achievements :

•    Bioinformatics
•    Systems Biology
•    Drug Design
•    Biological Network Analysis

Journal Papers:

  1. Mohammadian, A., Shojaosadati, S.A., & Rezaee, M.H. Fusarium oxysporum Mediates Photogeneration of Silver Nanoparticles. Scientia Iranica, 14(4), pp.323–326.
  2. Rezaei-Zarchi, S., Saboury, A.A., Hong, J., Norouzi, P., Moghaddam, A.B., Ghourchian, H., Ganjali, M.R., Moosavi-Movahedi, A.A., Javed, A. & Mohammadian, A. (2007). Electrochemical behavior of redox proteins immobilized on Nafion-riboflavin modified gold electrode. Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society, 28(12), pp.2266–2270.
  3. Mohammadian, A.*, Mowla, S.J., Elahi, E., Tavallaei, M., Nourani, M.R. & Liang, Y. (2013). Normalization of miRNA qPCR high-throughput data: a comparison of methods. Biotechnology Letters, 35(6), pp.843–851.
  4. Mohammadian, A.*, Nourani, M.R., Mowla, S.J., Tavallaei, M. & Liang, Y. (2013). Normalization of qPCR array data: a novel method based on procrustes superimposition. Progress in Biological Sciences, 3(1), pp.41–46.
  5. Ramezani, A., Zakeri, A., Mard-Soltani, M., Mohammadian, A., Hashemi, Z.S., Mohammadpour, H., Jahangiri, A., Khalili, S. & Rasaee, M.J. (2020). Structure-based screening for inhibitory therapeutics of CTLA-4 unveiled new insights about biology of ACTH. International Journal of Peptide Research and Therapeutics, 26(2), pp.849–859.
  6. Salehzadeh, S.A., Mohammadian, A.* & Salimi, F. (2020). Effect of chronic methamphetamine injection on levels of BDNF mRNA and its CpG island methylation in prefrontal cortex of rats. Asian Journal of Psychiatry, 48, p.101884.
  7. Naderi, M., Cherati, M.R., Mohammadian, A., Bidhendy, M.B., Ghiasvand, S., Marzouni, H.Z., Aryan, H., Jangholi, E. & Javidi, M.A. (2020). Hypericin induces apoptosis in AGS cell line with no significant effect on normal cells. Iranian Journal of Pharmaceutical Research: IJPR, 19(3), p.349.
  8. Hozhabri, H., Lashkari, A., Razavi, S.M. & Mohammadian, A. (2021). Integration of gene expression data identifies key genes and pathways in colorectal cancer. Medical Oncology, 38(1), pp.1–14.
  9. Ghiasvand, S., Javidi, M.A., Mohammadian, A., Mousavi, S.A., Shahriari, F. & Alavian, F. (2021). Transcriptome analysis evinces anti-neoplastic mechanisms of hypericin: A study on U87 glioblastoma cell line A. Life Sciences, 266, p.118874.
  10. Piryaei, M., Mehrparvar, B., Mohammadian, A., Shahriari, F. & Javidi, M. (2021). Anti-cancer impact of Hypericin in B-CPAP cells: Extrinsic caspase dependent apoptosis induction and metastasis obstruction. European Journal of Pharmacology, 910, p.174454.
  11. Barati, M., Darvishi, B., Javidi, M.A., Mohammadian, A., Shariatpanahi, S.P., Eisavand, M.R. & Madjid Ansari, A. (2021). Cellular stress response to extremely low-frequency electromagnetic fields (ELF-EMF): An explanation for controversial effects of ELF-EMF on apoptosis. Cell Proliferation, 54(12), p.e13154.
  12. Rahnama, M., Mohammadian, A.* & Aarabi, S. (2022). Network module analysis of bipolar disorder mechanism deciphers underlying pathways. Informatics in Medicine Unlocked, p.100975.
  13. Hozhabri, H., Moghaddam, M.M., Moghaddam, M.M. & Mohammadian, A. (2022). A comprehensive bioinformatics analysis to identify potential prognostic biomarkers among CC and CXC chemokines in breast cancer. Scientific Reports, 12(1), pp.1–19.
  14.  Mortezaei, Z., Mohammadian, A. & Tavallaei, M. (2022). Variations of SARS-CoV-2 in the Iranian population and candidate putative drug-like compounds to inhibit the mutated proteins. Heliyon, p.e09910.
  15. Imanpour, A., Manaffar, R. & Mohammadian, A. Molecular dynamics simulation of a Na⁺/K⁺ ATPase pump with altered stoichiometry 3Na:2K to 2Na:1K. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3907898
  16. Mohammadian, A.*, Mortezaei, Z. & NejatyJahromy, Y. (2023). Fast rank-based normalization of miRNA qPCR arrays using support vector regression. Informatics in Medicine Unlocked, p.101265.

Research Projects :

  1. Drug repositioning to modulate methamphetamine-induced cognitive responses (Ongoing).
  2. Design and implementation of a Windows-based assistant software for university scheduling, considering instructor constraints and conditions (Ongoing).