Prof. Afshin Beheshti

Dr. Beheshti completed his PhD from Florida State University in physics and made a transition to cancer, systems biology, and radiation biology for his postdoctoral training. In 2014 he became an assistant professor at Tufts University School of Medicine/Tufts Medical Center where he continued his research as a systems biologist studying various aspects of cancer including microRNAs, aging and cancer, cancer drug targets, and development of novel immunotherapy. In April 2017, Dr. Beheshti joined KBR, NASA Ames Research Center, to be part of the GeneLab project assisting with developing the platform. In addition, Dr. Beheshti also has obtained his own grants where he is conducting research on how microRNAs will impact space biology and potential use for countermeasures to mitigate space radiation and microgravity. Lastly, Dr. Beheshti currently also holds a visiting researcher appointment at the Broad Institute and is the lead of a non-profit formed on March 2020 working on COVID-19 called COVID-19 International Research Team (COV-IRT, www.cov-irt.org)