Abbas Shafiee

Abbas Shafiee (born 1944, Iran) is an Iranian pharmaceutical chemist. He is president of faculty of pharmacy at Tehran University.^[1] He has published more than 350 scientific articles in peer reviewed international journals.^[2]

He received his degree in Pharmacy from Tehran University in 1962, later earning a master's from Columbia University's College of Pharmaceutical Sciences in 1965, and a Ph.D in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from Columbia University's College of Pharmaceutical Sciences in 1968.

Selected honoraria

• National Winner of Merit, Lunsford Richardson Award for graduate research (USA), 1968
• Research Award, Tehran University, 1972
• Ministry of Higher Education award for Research, 1974
• First Degree Kharazmi Award, 1987
• Permanent Member of Iranian Academy of Medical Sciences 1990.
• Member of Iranian Academy of Science, Tehran 1991.
• Tehran University's Highest Honorary Award, 1994
• Iranian Chemical Society Year's Chemist, 1995
• His book, Chromatography and spectroscopy, was named best book of the year and received the corresponding award from the Interior Ministry in 1996 and the Ministry of Health in 1995
• Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa), University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, 1998
• First degree Razi Award, 1998
• Second degree National Award for Research, 1999
• Best National Book of the Year, 2000^[3]

References

1. Katritzky, Alan R. (1979). Alan R. Katritzky, ed. Advances in heterocyclic chemistry 24 (illustrated ed.). Academic Press. p. 109. ISBN 0-12-020624-2. Retrieved 31 December 2009.
2. "CV: Abbas Shafiee". Tehran: Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Retrieved 31 December 2009.
3. "Abbas Shafiee". Tehran: Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics. Retrieved 31 December 2009.

See also

• Hassan Farsam
• Ahmad Reza Dehpour
• Iranian science
• Contemporary Medicine in Iran
• Intellectual movements in Iran