Farsad completed his MD thesis at the Department of Pharmacology at the Medical University Vienna where he worked in the field of G-protein coupled recpetors such as the Adenosine 2A receptor under supervision of Prof. Jürgen Zezula and Prof. Michael Freissmuth. After his graduation from medical school in 2008, Farsad entered the Vienna Cardiac Tansplant program working with Prof. Andreas Zuckermann later on started a career as a cardiac surgeon in 2010. Between 2011 and 2012 he was also a member of the ventricular assist device (VAD) unit. In 2012 he changed to the VIETAC Lab and joined a PhD program for organ failure replacement and transplantation (POeT). In 2013 he became resident at the department of Nephrology and Dialysis.
Nephrology