Postdoctoral fellow
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), with an interest in using genomics, metabolomics, and multi-omic approaches to better understand the association of diet and physical activity with cardiometabolic disease. My background is in nutritional epidemiology, and during my graduate studies at Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), and Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), I gained extensive experience in identification of metabolomic biomarkers of diet and disease. I became interested in the role of genetics, and pursued postdoctoral work in genomics and metabolomics, first at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), and currently at VUMC. My long-term career goal is to become an independent investigator, performing epidemiological, multi-omic translational research in nutritional sciences. I believe that translational research in genomics and metabolomics represents a promising avenue to contribute to the evidence base supporting precision nutrition approaches and can reveal the mechanisms of the relationship between environmental factors (such as physical activity and diet) and diseases. Integrating multi-omics data with clinical and environmental data could also improve our understanding of the molecular basis of disease, prediction of therapeutic responses and risk of adverse effects, and implementation of new tools towards the goal of more personalized medicine. I’m committed to achieving excellence as an early career researcher in epidemiological, nutritional and multi-omics sciences.