Firdos Alam Khan
Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Saudi Arabia
Biography
Professor Firdos Alam Khan is a Professor, and Chairman, Department of Stem Cell Biology, Institute for Research & Medical Consultations, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. Professor Khan received his PhDl degree in Neuroscience from Nagpur University, India. Professor Khan has 24 years of research and teaching experience in various domains of biotechnology. He did his postdoctoral fellowship from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA. Perofessor Khan’s research interests are stem cell biology and neuroscience, and he has been working on the neural stem cells understanding their differentiation capabilities with relation to therapeutics and diagnostics aspects. Profess Khan is exploring the role of nanoparticles in cancer cells with therapeutic potentials as well as in the stem cells.
Abstract
Abstract : Isolation of pluripotent stem cells from an adult human eye