Mohammad Heiat received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology from Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, in 2002 and 2006, respectively. He is a PhD candidate in Molecular Biology at the Molecular Biology Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, working on ssDNA aptamers as therapeutics.