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Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam Born 1971
Kerman, IranOccupation neuroscientist Known for Human Rights activist, neuroscience Home town Oslo, Norway Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, possibly Amiri-Moghadam, (born 1971) is a Norwegian-Iranian neuroscientist and human rights advocate.
Amiry-Moghaddam spent his first few years in the city of Kerman about 1000 kilometers south-east of Tehran in Iran. He arrived in Norway as a refugee of minor age, via Pakistan in 1985.
Amiry-Moghaddam completed his medical studies in 1996 at the University of Oslo, and later obtained a PhD at the Center for Neuroscience and Molecular Biology [1] in that university. In 2004, he received the King's gold medal for the best medical doctorate at the University of Oslo. Amiry-Moghaddam has been a collaborator to Peter Agre, who received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2003. Amiry-Moghaddam spent one year as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School in 2006.
Amiry-Moghaddam was awarded the Anders Jahre medicine prize for young scientists in 2008,[2] He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[3]
Amiry-Moghaddam is well-known as a defender of human rights. He received the Norwegian Amnesty International's human rights prize in 2007 [4] for his work against the human rights violations in Iran.
Today he works as a group leader at the Center for Molecular Biology and Neuroscience, and head of the Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience at the University of Oslo. He is also co-founder and spokesperson for the NGO Iran Human Rights (http://iranhr.net)[5] which monitors the violations of human rights in Iran.
References
- ^ Centre for Molecular Biology and Neuroscience
- ^ http://www.med.uio.no/imb/jahre/abstracts/abstract2008.html Anders Jahre's Awards for Medical Research
- ^ "Gruppe 7: Medisinske fag" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. http://www.dnva.no/c26848/artikkel/vis.html?tid=27630. Retrieved 28 October 2009.
- ^ The Amnesty Human Rights Prize 2007: Mahmood Amiry-Moghadddam – an every day hero in the fight for human rights
- ^ Iran Human Rights
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