Medical microbiology (bacteriology and virology)

   MSc in Medical bacteriology
   MSc in Medical virology
   PhD in in medical bacteriology

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 programs accepting students for MSc were started in 1992 and PhD programs 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 centers 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.