Vahid Khandan

► Education: Vahid Khandan has a master degree in Biomechanical Engineering at Sharif University of Technology (The most prestigious university in Iran)where he works as research assistant at cellular and Molecular pharmacology laboratory. He also acquired general and fundamental knowledge of Mechanical Engineering as an undergraduate student of Mechanical Engineering and received his B.Sc. degree from Shahrood University of Technology with honors.

► Research: His research involves Biofluid Mechanics, Computational Nanomechanics, and Microfluidics that centers on simulation of biological systemsespecially with MD Simulation. Also by having a general knowledge in Mechanical and Biomechanical Engineering and his desire to Systems Science, he is interested in Life Sciences and other issues concerned with complex systems.

► Experience: He is experienced in Drug Design, Multi-Scale Analysis, and Nanobiotechnology. He also has cooperated with Pasteur Institute (one of the most scientific drug design centers in middle-east), Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences (BUMC), and now he is attended to the Sharif Biochemical and Bioenvironmental Research Centers (SBBRC) as a research assistant.

Tel: ++989151300312

Email: vahidkhandan@mech.sharif.edu, khandan.vahid@gmail.com

Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

M.Sc. in Biomechanical Engineering (September 2012 – January 2015) Total GPA: 3.9 / 4

• Thesis: "Inhibition the Neurotoxicity of Amyloidβ with a Hydrophobic Peptide Drug, Combination of Docking and MD simulation"

Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood, Iran

B.Sc. in Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer (September 2007 –July 2011) Total GPA: 3.8 / 4

• Thesis: "An Investigation of the Design of Pressure Vessels”

Reserch Experiences

• Sharif University of Technology, Biochemical and Bioenvironmental Research Center (BBRC)

Research Assistant, (January 2016 – Now)

• Sharif University of Technology, School of Mechanical Engineering, Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology

Research Assistant, (July 2013 – January 2015)

• Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences (BUMC), Nanobiotechnology Research Center

Developing a peptide drug with adding metal chelating residues with combining Docking and MD simulation as a treatment of Alzheimer’s disease.

Advisor: Phd.AliAlizadeh (April 2015 – August 2016)

• Sharif University of Technology, School of Mechanical Engineering

Inhibition of aggregation and forming of Aβ42 oligomers with combining Docking and MD simulation as a treatment of Alzheimer’s disease.

Advisor:Prof.BaharFiroozabadi. (Fall 2014)

• Sharif University of Technology, School of Mechanical Engineering

Characterizing Alkenithiol and PTR using Quantum mechanics.

Advisor:Phd.AmirShamloo. (Fall 2013)

• Shahrood University of Technology, Mechanical Engineering Department

An Investigation of the Design of Pressure Vessels

Advisor: Phd.MohsenNazary. (Spring, 2011)

Teaching Experiences

• Sharif University of Technology, School of Mechanical Engineering

TA of Principle of Bioengineering. (Fall 2016)

• Shahrood University of Technology, Mechanical Engineering Department

TA of Fluid Mechanics I, II. (Spring, 2010)

Publications

• V.Khandan, B.Firoozabadi, M.S.Saidi, Inhibition of aggregation and forming of Aβ42 oligomers with combining Docking and MD simulation as a treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, Journal of Mechanical Engineering of TMU,2015.

• V.Khandan, B.Firoozabadi, M.S.Saidi, Simulation of Pentapeptide Drug Interaction with β-Sheet-Rich Monomers of Aβ Protein for Alzheimer Treatment, Iranian Journal of Biomedical Engineering, 2015.

• V.Khandan, B.Firoozabadi, M.S.Saidi, Reversing the formation of Amyloid Beta-sheet-rich by a pentapeptide drug, 21th Iranian Conference on Biomedical Engineering (ICBME) 2014, Tehran, Iran.

• V.Khandan, B.Firoozabadi, M.S.Saidi, A Pentapeptide (GLMVG) drug inhibit Aβ aggregation; An in silico study for treatment of Alzheimer’s disease.4th

Skills

• Expert in NAMD, VMD, SPARTAN

• Expert in Fortran, MATLAB, and Python

• Familiar with ANSYS, Adina

• Familiar with Solidworks; CATIA, AutoCAD

• Languages: Persian (native), English (fluent)

Honors

• Iran Nanotechnology Initiative Council (INIC)research grant (2014, 2015)

• Membership of Iran Talent Institute (2015)

• Prime researcher in 21th Iranian Conference on Biomedical Engineering (ICBME) 2014

• Top 10% of class entering (2007, 2012)

• Success in provincial Olympia (2006)

• Toefl 90 (Reading 26 Listening 21 Speaking 21 Writing22)