Mehdi Razzaghi-Abyaneh
Professor Mehdi Razzaghi-Abyaneh was born in Tehran, Iran. He earned his PhD in Medical Mycology from Tarbiat Modares University in Tehran, Iran. Dr. Razzaghi-Abyaneh pursued a 12-month sabbatical on the identification of antifungal compounds from bioactive plants at the Graduate School of Agriculture, Tokyo University, in the laboratory of Applied Biological Chemistry from 2006 to 2007. He is currently a full professor and eminent research scientist at the Pasteur Institute of Iran (Tehran, Iran), where he has been working on mycotoxins and mycotoxigenic fungi, as well as antifungal nanomaterials and biologically active antifungals of plant, fungal, and bacterial origin for more than 25 years. He has supervised and served as advisor for several PhD and MSc theses. Dr. Razzaghi-Abyaneh has published over 200 papers in peer-reviewed international journals, 15 books, and numerous book chapters. His research is focused on the chemical basis of plant–fungal interactions and on determining the mode of action of antifungal bioactive compounds of natural origin, both small and macromolecular, at the cellular and molecular levels.