Lab Team
Dr. Mahtab Jafari:
 | Education Pharm.D., University of California, San Francisco, 1994 Academic Distinctions 2007-2008; Recipient of the UCI Distinguished Assistant Professor Award for Teaching |
I received my Pharm.D. from UCSF School of Pharmacy in 1994 and following my graduation, completed a residency
program in clinical pharmacy. After my residency, I joined the faculty at UCSF School of Pharmacy as an Assistant
Clinical Professor. Two years later, I was offered a faculty position at the new College of Pharmacy at Western University
of Health Sciences. During my years at Western University, I also had a joint clinical faculty position with the School of
Medicine at UCI. I developed and directed the Cholesterol Clinic at the medical center and co-developed a Cardiovascular
Risk Reduction Program at UCI. From 1997 to 2002, I was involved in the didactic and clinical teaching of medical
students, residents, fellows and pharmacy students and residents.
In 2002, I joined Abbott Laboratories as a Research Scientist in the Neuroscience department. At Abbott Neuroscience,
I lead studies on metabolic complications of CNS compounds and eventfully became a Senior Research Scientist. My
last position at Abbott was a management position where I was in charge of a team of 10 medical scientists in the
Vitamin D analogue group. I enjoyed managing this talented group of individuals. With this new group, my field of
research changed to the immunomodulation properties of Vitamin D analogues. During my tenure at Abbott, I continued
my academic affiliation with UCI.
I joined pharmaceutical sciences at UCI in January 2005 and immediately developed the pharmaceutical
sciences undergraduate major proposal which was approved by the UCI Senate in March 2006. So far, I have developed
and taught two new courses; Molecular Pharmacology and Drugs: The Good and The Bad. My current research interest
is anti-aging pharmacology in which I use Drosophilaas to my model system.
Lab Members
Dr. Sam E. Schriner
Assistant Project Scientist
schriner@uci.edu
Agnesa Avanesian
Medicinal Chemistry & Pharmacology Graduate Student
aavanesi@uci.edu
Sahar Semnani
Research Assistant
ssemnani@uci.edu