PD Soros Fellowships for New Americans

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Meet the Fellows

Yashar Kalani, 2006

Vice Chair and Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and Neurosciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine

Yashar Kalani is an immigrant from Iran

Fellowship awarded to support work towards an MD in Medicine at Stanford University

DR. YASHAR KALANI is an Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.

Yashar was born in Tehran, Iran, his family settled in the US in 1996.

After completing a combined BS/MS at UCLA, Yashar began doctoral studies at the California Institute of Technology. Upon completion of his doctorate he matriculated at Stanford University School of Medicine where he concurrently completed his MD and postdoctoral training in stem cell biology. While at Stanford he won fellowships from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, American Heart Association and the American Medical Association. Yashar completed clinical training at the Barrow Neurological Institute and was a Murdoch Fellow at the Center for Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery in Sydney.

Yashar and his colleagues were recently awarded a 5-year, $4 million dollar grant from the NIH to investigate the role of extracellular RNAs as biomarkers of stroke.

Education

MD Medicine | Stanford University 2008
MS Chemistry | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) 2004
PhD Chemistry | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) 2004
BS Biochemistry | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) 2002
MS Chemistry-Organic | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) 2002

Work History

University of Virginia School of Medicine, Vice Chair and Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and Neurosciences
Barrow Neurological Institute, Physician-Scientist
University of Utah School of Medicine, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery

Yashar Kalani, 2006

MD Medicine | Stanford University 2008

MS Chemistry | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) 2004

PhD Chemistry | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) 2004

BS Biochemistry | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) 2002

MS Chemistry-Organic | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) 2002

University of Virginia School of Medicine, Vice Chair and Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and Neurosciences

Barrow Neurological Institute, Physician-Scientist

University of Utah School of Medicine, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery