Medical Sciences

Name: Maliheh soodi

Date of birth: 1974

Nationality: Iranian

CONTACT INFORMATION

Department of Toxicology

Faculty of  medical sciences

Tarbiat Modarres University

Tehran , IRAN

Tel: +98 21 82884549 (office) Fax: +98 21 82884555 (Faculty)

Email: soodi@modares.ac.ir

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

 Assistant Professor of Pharmacology & Toxicology, Tarbiat modares University, Faculty of medical sciences   (since October,2009)

Assistant Professor of Pharmacology & Toxicology, Food and Drug laboratories research center, Ministry of Health,(from November 2006 to June 2009)

EDUCATIONS

 Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, PhD (Toxicology/Pharmacology), (2000-2005)

Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, PharmD, (1993-1999)

High school certificate:  (1992)

Thesis

Pharm.D. Thesis: Evaluation of    fennel essential oil effects on uterine contraction and primary dysmenorrhea, Pharmacological ,Toxicological and Clinical trial  studies.

Supervisors: Seyed Nasser Ostad, Mohammad Sharifzadeh and Nahid Khorshidi

Advisor: Hassan Marzban

Ph.D Thesis: Evaluation of COX-2 expression in hippocampus of lead induced memory deficit rats in Morris water Maze model.

Supervisors: Mohammad Sharifzadeh ,Nasser naghdi and Seyed Nasser Ostad

Advisor: Mohammad Abdollahi

WORKSHOPS

Lecture and Training:

Workshop of Behavioral and Molecular methods in neuroscience, Tehran University of Medical Sciences,

Analysis of Pesticides residue in food, 10^th Iranian congress of Toxicology and Poisoning,Tehran, Iran,May,18-20,2009

Analysis of Aspartam with HPLC in Drinks. Food and Drugs laboratories research center,

Participation:

1- Sample preparation and analysis of aflatoxines

2- Design of experiment in pharmaceutical sciences

3- Workshop on safety assessment and quality control of GMO products

4- Food safety risk  analysis

5- Basics, structure, documentation of food safety management systems according to DIN EN ISO 22000:2005 

6- Chemometric Educational course,

7-Educational course of Calibration of laboratories instruments

8- Analysis of vitamin D3 in dried milk and  infant food

9- Behavioral methods in neuroscience.

TEACHING

Pharmacology , for M.Sc student of Toxicology

General Toxicology, for M.Sc student of Toxicology

Clinical toxicology and poisoning, for M.Sc student of Toxicology,

Analytical toxicology, for M.Sc student of Toxicology

RESEARCH AREA

Neurotoxicology

Neurodegenerative diseases, especially Alzheimer

Protective effect of medical plant in neurotoxicology

Neurobehavioral  toxicology , especially toxicant induced  memory deficit, cellular and molecular mechanism investigation

Oxidative stress and Apoptosis

EXPERTS

Cell culture

Immunohistochemistry

Morris water maze

Method development and validation in HPLC and Atomic absorption analysis

Design of experiment

Spss

ICDL skills

Supervisor

Evaluation of Melissa ofesinalis extracts on scopolamine induced amnesia in rat (Pharm D Thesis,Azad university)

Advisor

Assessment of Interaction effect of Zinc and nitric oxide synthase inhibitor on memory retention and expression of ChAT and COX-2 in hippocampus and medial septal area of rat in Morris water maze model., Toxicology Ph.D Thesis, Tehran University of Medical Sciences

ABSTRACTS

Oral presentation

Simultaneous determination of four common organophosphate pesticide residues in fruits by HPLC,  10^th Iranian congress of Toxicology and Poisoning,Tehran, Iran,May,18-20,2009

Poster presentation:

Development of a HPLC method for determination of Azinphos methyl residue in fruits,11^th Iranian Pharmaceutical Sciences conference,Kerman,Iran,August,2008

FULL PAPERS IN INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS

HIndex: 2; Total citations: 27 according to Scopus

1- S.N. Ostad, M. Soodi, M. Sharifzadeh, N. Khorshidi, H. Marzban

 The effect  of fennel  essential oil on uterine contraction as a model for dysmenorrhea, pharmacology and toxicology study.J.Ethnopharm. 2001, (76) : 299-304

2- Nahid Khorshidi, Seyed Nasser Ostad, Mahmood Mosadegh, Maliheh Soodi

 Clinical effects of fennel essential oil on primary dysmenorrhea.

I.J.P.R. 2003, 89-93

3- Mohammad Sharifzadeh, Mahtab Tavasoli, Maliheh Soodi, Sakine Mohammadi-Eraghi, Mohammad H. Ghahremani, Ali Roghani

 A time course analysis of cyclooxygenase-2 suggests a role in spatial memory retrieval in rats. Neuroscience Res., 2006 , (54):  171-179

4- Mohammad Sharifzadeh, Mehdi Aghsami, Shervin Gholizadeh, Maliheh Soodi,Siavash Khalaj,Kaveh Tabrizian and Ali Roghani

Protective effects of chronic lithium treatment against spatial memory retention deficits induced by the protein kinase AII inhibitor  H-89 in male rats.

 Pharmacology. 2007;80(2-3):158-65.

5- Maliheh Soodi, Mohammad Sharifzadeh, Nasser Naghdi, Nasser Ostad, Mohammad Abdollahi, and Ali Roghani

Systemic and developmental exposure to lead causes spatial memory deficits and a reduction in COX-2 immunoreactivity in the rat hippocampus.

 J Neurosci Res. 2007 Nov 1;85(14):3183-92.

6-Maliheh Soodi, Nasser Nagdi, Mohammad Sharifzadeh, Seyed Nasser Ostad and Mohammad Abdollahi

Effect of lead (Pb) exposure in female pregnant rats and their offspring on spatial learning and memory in morris water maze. Iranian journal of pharmaceutical research 2008 ,7(1)