Maliheh Nazari-Jahantigh
University Munich, Germany
Biography
Maliheh Nazari-Jahantigh received her bachelor and master degrees in the field of cellular and molecular biology from Iran and selected as an outstanding student in the country during her master studies. She completed her PhD in 2013 from RWTH Aachen University in the field of biology and then started her postdoctoral studies in Ludwig Maximillian University Munich. Currently she is a junior group leader at institute for cardiovascular disease (IPEK) in LMU. She has been studying the role of microRNAs during atherosclerosis since 2009 and has published several papers in reputed journals in this field.
Abstract
Abstract : Deletion of miR-147 in macrophages promotes atherosclerosis