Mentor: Thomas Pearce, MD, PhD
Current Year in the Program: Second Year
Representative Publications
- Jaafari N, Kojabad AA, Shabestari RM, Safa M. Design and fabrication of novel microfluidic-based droplets for drug screening on a chronic myeloid leukemia cell line. PLOS ONE. 2025.
- Ahmadi SE, Rahimian E, Rahimi S, Zarandi B, Bahraini M, Soleymani M, Safdari SM, Shabannezhad A, Jaafari N, Safa M. From regulation to deregulation of p53 in hematologic malignancies: implications for diagnosis, prognosis and therapy. Biomarker Research. 2024.
- Pakjoo M, Ahmadi SE, Zahedi M, Jaafari N, Khademi R, Amini A, Safa M. Interplay between proteasome inhibitors and NF-κB pathway in leukemia and lymphoma: a comprehensive review on challenges ahead of proteasome inhibitors. Cell Communication and Signaling. 2024.
- Karami Fath M, Azami J, Jaafari N, Akbari Oryani M, Jafari N, Karim Poor A, Azargoonjahromi A, Nabi-Afjadi M, Payandeh Z, Zalpoor H, Shanehbandi D. Exosome application in treatment and diagnosis of B-cell disorders: leukemias, multiple sclerosis, and arthritis rheumatoid. Cellular & Molecular Biology Letters. 2022.
Conference Abstracts (Published)
- Pearce T, Nadeesha L, Neltner A, Klusty M, Ti C, Gokmen M, Vizcarra J, Cadano C, Jaafari N, Cheung S, Gu Q, Tafti A, Ozcan C, Bumgardner C, Nelson P, Gutman D. Multicompartment neuroanatomic segmentation of autopsy brain tissue sections using deep learning methodologies. American Association of Neuropathologists Annual Meeting. 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/jnen/nlaf040
Conference Abstracts (Accepted)
- Jaafari N, Gu Q, Tafti A, Pearce TM. Progressive Learning for Multi-Class Brain Tissue Segmentation in Whole Slide Images. Pathology Visions (Digital Pathology Association Annual Meeting). 2025.