The department of Microbiology was primarily founded at around 1980 including Parasitology, Mycology, Immunology and Virology as well as Bacteriology. Currently the department includes the Medical Bacteriology and Virology subgroups.


The Medical Microbiology department provides training for undergraduate and postgraduate medical students with up to date lectures in accordance with the lesson plans set by the Ministry of Health and Medical Education as well as own research activities. Postgraduate programmes accepting students for MSc were started in 1992 and PhD programmes in the field of Microbiology in 2007.
Besides teaching, the group is involved in research projects in medical bacteriology, molecular biology and epidemiology of bacterial and viral infections. The group has good connections and cooperative activities with the established research centres in the university especially the Medical Mycology and the Bacteriology Research Centre and the Research Centre of Tropical and Infectious Diseases. Faculty members take regular sabbatical leaves in order to be up to date and to collaborate in other scientific research projects.
The department has close relations with hospitals and many research projects are shares physicians and pharmacologists with hospitals in order to find new strategic approaches for diagnosis and treatment of bacterial and viral infections. Our department also serves on national and international scientific committees and organizations, the faculty members serve as peer-reviewers on many scientific journal editorial boards and  corporates with the Iranian Society of Microbiology.

The aim of group

To present up to date lectures in bacteriology and molecular biology for training medical and paramedical students and to offer courses in the field of bacteriology for undergraduate and postgraduate students in other departments.
To be informed about new techniques and laboratory methods for diagnosis, treatment and prevention of infectious disease as we try to create a suitable environment for the faculty staff to develop their full potential.
By appropriate and quality training the medical, paramedical, graduate and undergraduate students will be able to fulfil positions and provide for our community and other institutions worldwide.
Finally, the department is responsible to initiate and to be involved in research projects with the industry, with pharmaceutical companies as well as other scientific institutions worldwide.