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Dr s simin meydani and dennis steindler discuss a recent impactful publication
Dr. Simin Nikbin Meydani, D.V.M., Ph.D., is an Iranian-American Nutrition Scientist, Professor and the currently the Vice Provost of Research at Tufts University.
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- Dr s simin meydani and dennis steindler discuss a recent impactful publication
- ILSI NA Defining Healthy Aging Speaker Simin Meydani
- Biography
- Vice Provost for Research at Tufts University
- Scientific work
- Honors
- Other activities
- Professional affiliations
- Selected publications
- References

She is the lab director of the Nutrition and Immunology Lab at the Jean Mayer Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University (HNRCA), Professor of Nutrition and Immunology at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and the Tufts Sackler Graduate Program in Immunology.
ILSI NA: Defining Healthy Aging (Speaker: Simin Meydani)
Biography
Meydani was born in Tehran, Iran and was educated at Hadaf High School in Tehran. She received her D.V.M. degree in Veterinary Medicine from University of Tehran in 1975, a master’s degree in Nutrition from Colorado State University in 1977 and a Doctor of Nutrition degree from Iowa State University in 1981. She was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health from 1981-1983 and then was appointed Senior Research Associate in the Department of Biology at Brandeis University from 1983-1984. She additionally earned a certificate in Molecular Immunology at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA in 1985.
In 1984, Meydani joined the Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA) at Tufts University as a Visiting Scientist. After 6 years of research positions there, she became Lab Director of the Nutritional Immunology Laboratory at the Center in 1990. She was also a Hedwig van Amerigen Executive Leadership fellow in the Academic Medicine Program at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia, PA in 2006.
Vice Provost for Research at Tufts University
Meydani was named the Vice Provost for research in September 2016.
Scientific work
According to her profile at Tufts, her scientific interests include the impact of nutrition on the aging process and age-associated diseases; role of nutrition on immune and inflammatory responses and predisposition to infectious diseases in developed and less developed countries.
Honors
Other activities
Professional affiliations
Selected publications
Her most cited papers are