Farrokh Asadi is currently an Associate Professor of Physiology and Pathophysiology in the Department of Adult Health and Gerontological Nursing and the Graduate College at Rush Medical University Medical Center, Chicago, Illionis. He earned his Doctorate degree in Veterinary Medicine (DVM) from the University of Tehran, his Masters degree in Preventive Veterinary Medicine (MPVM) from the University of California at Davis, and his Ph.D. in medicinal Pathology from the University of Illinois at Chicago. In addition, he has completed a four-year postdoctoral training program in molecular genetics at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, and he is a Board Certified Specialist in Clinical Immunology with the American Society of Clinical Pathologists. Dr. Asadi has more than three decades of teaching experience in different areas of biological sciences. As a research scientist, he has been collaborating with the Endocrinology section of the University of Illinois at Chicago’s School of Medicine in their Department of Medicine for more than twenty years. His current research (supported by the Rush University College of Nursing Research Fund) involves the study of molecular pathogenicity of cancers as well as studies of cytokines regulation of cancer cell responses to programmed cell suicide (apoptosis).

Research interests are Biological Sciences, Endocrine System Diseases, Genetic Phenomena, Genetic Processes, Genetic Structures, Neoplasms, Pathological Conditions Signs and Symptoms, Physiological Processes