The 1st round of KANS competition’s final jury session held
Final jury session for the 1st round of KANS (Knowledge Application and Notion for Society) scientific competition was held at MSTF.
In an interview with Hamshahri, Dr. Omid Farokhzad, laureate of the 5th Mustafa(pbuh) Prize talks about his professional life.
If we take a fleeting glance around us, everything we see consists of matter that makes up the world. But is our universe, like our immediate surroundings, filled with visible matter and is it taken for granted? Let us step away from this visible matter for a moment and venture into a more enigmatic realm. Imagine leaving Earth behind and traveling so far that galaxies appear merely as tiny dots among countless others. From that vantage point, we can observe the entire observable universe within a single frame. But is everything before us truly composed of visible matter?
Despite significant advancements, organ transplantation remains one of the most complex and challenging medical treatments, requiring deep knowledge of how the immune system interacts with transplanted organs. In general, by inhibiting T-cell activation pathways and reducing the production of harmful antibodies, transplant rejection can be prevented, and immunological tolerance can be strengthened. This approach is particularly important in critical stages of the immune response, including T-cell differentiation, function, and interactions with other immune cells.
According to Mohamed Sayegh, the most fundamental question in this field is: “What are the mechanisms of immunological tolerance, and how can we trick the immune system into accepting a foreign organ without rejection and without immunosuppression?”