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Nassir Mokarram-Dorri

  • Finance and Administration
    Director, Investment Analysis
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Overview

Dr. Nassir Mokarram has a broad background in bioengineering, materials science, nanotechnology, and immunoengineering. He has been a pioneer in the field of immunomodulatory biomaterials for neural tissue. A trained bioengineer and polymer scientist, Dr. Mokarram did his graduate training at Georgia Institute of Technology on neural tissue regeneration, and completed his fellowship at Stanford University in Biodesign Innovation. His current research is focused on modulating immune response for tissue repair and cancer therapy. He is particularly interested in application of lessons learned from CNS repair mechanism to manage notoriously difficult to treat brain tumors, such as Glioblastoma.

Before joining Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Biomedical Engineering had been his home base since 2015 when he was appointed as a research faculty at Georgia Tech, and more recently, as an Assistant Research Professor at Duke University. Besides academia, Dr. Mokarram is a passionate healthcare technology advocate; he has been involved with the development of new medical technologies in multiple biotech and medtech startups and corporate firms ranging from endovascular occlusion gel to suprachoroidal drug delivery systems. He is a recent recipient of Breakthrough Device designation by the Food and Drug Administration for his use of nanofiber-based tumor guidance system.

Other ongoing research includes novel devices to cross blood brain barrier (BBB), immunomodulation strategies to create unique, multi-domain treatments for glioblastoma as well as other unorthodox approaches such as application of bacterial carrier to deliver therapies to GBM tumors.

Academic Appointment

  • Associate Professor, Neurosurgery, Emory University

Research

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