Mustafa(pbuh) Prize News

The 2025 Young Scientist Medal winner, Buse Cevatemre Yildirim, has unlocked the smart mechanism of cancer cells that enables them to evade chemotherapy. 

The 2025 Young Scientist Medal winner, Buse Cevatemre Yildirim, has cracked the code of cancer tumors’ drug resistance, paving the path to a definite treatment of cancer. 

In our in-depth interview, Professor Amin Shokrollahi went through his love for mathematics that arose from his early family teachings, his studies in Germany, and tying his learnings with the industry and entrepreneurship in different countries.

  “Our research team at Royan Institute is prepared to transplant stem cells to human body for treating Parkinson’s disease,” says Dr. Hossein Baharvand, a faculty member at Royan Institute. 

Mohammad Amin Shokrollahi, a Mustafa^(pbuh) Prize laureate who has revolutionized digital communication by combining number theory and the science of coding, talks about his journey through life.

Omar Yaghi, prominent chemist and professor at California University, a 2015 Mustafa^(pbuh) Prize laureate and a Nobel Prize winner, maintains that a new generation of materials, to whose formation he has contributed significantly, are likely to revolutionize the next century. Only a few grams of these Crystalline and extremely porous materials called Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs ), can have an internal surface area comparable to the size of a soccer field.

A puzzling illustration in a school biology book first drew Hossein Baharvand toward embryology. Today, the 2019 Mustafa^(pbuh) Prize laureate is one of the most prominent figures in stem cell research in Iran. 
 

The sixth Noor Student Competition has concluded following the completion of the judging process, with winners selected from among 5,226 submitted works, representing a total of 10,452 students.

Sulaiman Wadi Harun, Professor of Electrical Engineering and a guest at the 2025 Mustafa^(pbuh) Prize Week, talked about his brilliant approach to lowering costs in industry.