Prof. Dr. med. Alireza Ranjbar

Date of birth: October 31, 1960

Place of birth: Ghaemshahr / Iran

Education:

 Board of Pediatrics, Allergy and Immunology

 Certificate for positive psychotherapy and family therapy

 MD thesis: The tuberculosis in children and adults, new diagnostic methods and therapy strategies

 PhD thesis: Immune modulation in prevention and causal therapy of allergic diseases in children

Affiliation and scientific positions:

2011- Present	Representative of Iranian Neurogenetic Society in Germany
2010- Present	Member of executive board of International Association for Medicine and Psychotherapy, Germany
2009 – Present	Jury President of International Award of Academy for Positive and Transcultural Psychotherapy, Headquarter in Wiesbaden, Germany
2009 – Present	President and scientific chair of International Prof. Yalda Academic Foundation in Medical Sciences,  founder of academy
2008 – Present	Professor, Director of Institute of Interventional Allergology and Immunology, Bonn / Cologne, Germany
2008-Present	Professor, member of teaching board of international  academy for Positive and Transcultural Psychotherapy
2007 – Present	President of International Medical Research Network, Bonn, Germany
2005 – Present	Honorary Professor at the department of Allergy and  Immunology at the Mashhad University of Medical  Sciences
2003 – Present	Adjunct and collaborating Professor at the department of infectious diseases and Pediatric Allergy and Immunology at the Tehran University of Medical Sciences
2003	Founding member of German Network for  Research and Clinical Trials in Pediatric Allergology (NESTAP)
2001-Present	Course instructor of the German Academy for Postgraduate, Advanced and Continuing Medical  Education, state NRW
2001-Present	President of the Association of Iranian Physicians and Dentists in Germany (VIA), founder of scientific complexes  of VIA, chairman of scientific board

Research projects and interests:

 1. Adhesion molecules and infectious diseases

 2. The molecular and cellular link between allergy and infections

 3. The role of pre and probiotics for innate immune system

 4. Molecular diagnosis of allergy

 5. Immune modulation in allergic diseases

 6. Preventive immune modulation in allergic diseases

 7. Cellular and molecular immune therapy in allergic diseases

 8. Multidimensional Phenotyping in Asthma

 9. Immune modulation in autoimmune diseases

 10. Metabolic research in allergy

 11. Linking the immune system with metabolic disorders

12. The role of cytokines and neuropeptides in brain in psychological and behavioural Disorders

13. Experimental psychoneuroimmunology

Referee / Reviewer:

• Journal of Immunology and Medical Microbiology / The Netherland
• Acta Pharmaceutica / Zagreb
• Journal of Paediatric Allergy and Immunology / England

• Vaccine / England
• American Journal of Productive Immunology

• Iranian Journal of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology
• Iranian Journal of  Pediatric Society
• Genetics in the 3rd Millennium
• Journal of Research in Medical Sciences
• International Journal of Dental Hygiene / Australia

Membership:

German Society of Pediatrics

German Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Association of German Allergists

German Society of Pediatric Pneumology and Allergy

German Network for Research and Clinical Trials in Pediatric Allergology (NESTAP)

European Academy of Clinical Immunology and Allergology

European Nutraceutical Association

American Academy of Asthma, Allergy and Immunology

Iranian Society of Pediatrics

Iranian Society of Asthma and Allergy

Iranian Society of Immunology and Allergy

Iranian Society of Pediatric Nephrology

Iranian Neurogenetic Society

International Association Razi for Medicine and Psychotherapy

Association of Iranian Physicians and Dentists in Germany

Society of Iranian Faculty Members in Germany

International Prof. Yalda Academic Foundation in Medical Sciences

Awards and honours:

The best original oral presentation, International Pediatric Congress 1999

The best original oral presentation, International Pediatric Congress 2000

Prize of science, SARVAR Medical Foundation, 2002

Poster prize, 60th Annual Meeting of American Academy of Asthma, Allergy and Immunology, 2004

Poster prize, 23th Congress of European Academy of Clinical Immunology and Allergology, Amsterdam, 2004

Poster prize, 25th Congress of European Academy of Clinical Immunology and Allergology, Wien, 2006

The best original oral presentation, Congress of European Nutraceutical Association, Nürnberg, Germany

The International Avicenna Award of Excellence in Teaching and Research in Medical Sciences, 2010, Germany

Election as the best pediatrician by parents´committee, Bonn, Germany , 2010

Prize for Medical Sophisticated, awarded by Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, 2011

Publications:

Over 120 scientific papers, over 200 scientific lectures in different national and international medical congresses

Member of scientific and organisation committee of over 80 national and international medical congresses