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Iranian surgeons have achieved to successfully perform the country's first multi-organ transplantation in a 31-year-old man suffering from cancer.

"Multi-organ transplantation is only performed in six centers across the world," said Seyed Ali Malek Hosseini, the head of the organ-transplant department of Namazi Hospital in Shiraz-Iran, adding that the procedure is associated with a high incidence of life-threatening complications.

Malek Hosseini went on to say that Iranians have succeeded to transplant the intestine, stomach, duodenum, pancreas and spleen of a brain death donor into the body of the young man in a 10-hour operation.

The operation was not associated with any significant complication and the patient, who is in a good health condition, will soon be discharged from the hospital.

Active Image"The multi-organ transplantation has saved the life of the patient who had not long to live because of the aggressive tumor which was spreading all through his body," said Saman NikEghbalian, a surgeon in the organ transplantation department of Namazi Hospital.

Malek Hosseini believes the exceptional operation performed in Namazi Hospital would pave the way for further similar surgeries in the country and subsequently would save many lives.

Based on the available figures, more than 200 liver, 190 kidney and 30 pancreas transplantation are annually performed in Namazi Hospital. The center is considered as the Middle East's most active center for pancreas transplant.

Source: Press TV

Dr. Freydoon Shahidi, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, has been elected to the 2010 Class of Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the first Iranian-American mathematician to receive this honor.  The new Fellows join one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies. The Academy celebrates the 230th anniversary of its founding this year. The current membership includes more than 250 Nobel laureates and more than 60 Pulitzer Prize winners. The new class will be inducted at a ceremony on October 9, at the Academy’s headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Shahidi is regarded as a world leader in mathematics. His work of the past few years on which he spoke at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) at Beijing in 2002, is the culmination of three decades of work on developing what is now known as the Langlands-Shahidi method, a method that connects information about seemingly unrelated areas of mathematics.  Shahidi's work has been recognized throughout the international mathematics community. A Fellow of the Japan Society for Promotion of Science since 1993, Shahidi was appointed a Clay Mathematics Institute Prize Fellow in summer 2000.

During the opening ceremonies of the 31st Iranian Mathematics Conference at the University of Tehran in August 2000, Shahidi was made one of the first three honorary members of the Iranian Mathematical Society. His work was discussed by three of the plenary speakers at the American Mathematical Society’s Mathematical Challenges of the 21st Century, intended to be a survey of the important work in all areas of pure and applied mathematics to be done in this century. Shahidi was named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2001. Purdue University hosted an international conference to celebrate Shahidi's 60th birthday in 2007.

Shahidi is a graduate of Alborz High School and the University of Tehran's College of Engineering (Daneshkadeh Fanni). He received his doctorate in mathematics at Johns Hopkins University in 1975. The Iranian-American members of the Academy include Ervand Abrahamian, Christiane Amanpour, Nima Arkani-Hamed, Ali Javan, Mehran Kardar, Parviz Moin, Pierre Omidyar, and Cumrun Vafa.

Source: The Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans (PAAIA) www.paaia.org

Iranian scientist Dr Hossein Baharvand won Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) 2010 Prizes for Science and Technology.

The leading scientist is working on stem cell domain at Iran's Royan Research Institute. The ISESCO Secretary in Iran, Gholam Reza Karimi told ISNA that the organization gives prizes annually to leading Muslim scholars working on technology and science.

Baharvand heads Department of Stem Cells at Royan Institute. The prize includes one certificate, one gold medal and 5,000 dollars cash prize which goes to Mr. Baharvand on biology and technology.

He receives the prize in 5th meeting of Islamic countries' science and research ministers which is held on October 19-21 in Malaysia.

Sourche: Peyvand.com

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