Parvaneh Mehrbod, Associate Professor and academic member in Pasteur Institute of Iran, started her postgraduate study in 2006 at Faculty of Science, University of Tehran, Iran in the field of Cellular and Molecular Biology and pursued her PhD study in Molecular Biotechnology at Institute of Bioscience, Universiti Putra Malaysia and graduated in 2013. She was successful to obtain postdoctoral fellowship awards from Universiti Putra Malaysia (2014), Pasteur Institute of Iran (2016) and University of Pretoria, South Africa (2016-2019). These years of research experiences in the fields of Cell and Molecular Biology, Biotechnology, Immunology and Virology have provided her with the opportunity and enthusiasm for successful international collaborations. She has several publications of her research findings in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings, and has many more in collaborations. Her publication H-index is currently 28 and has been serving as an editorial board member and reviewer of reputed Journals.