Professor Hossein Dariush Fahimi

Born: May 7, 1933; Teheran, Iran

Present Position:

Professor Emeritus, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Address:

Institut für Anatomie und Zellbiologie der Universität Heidelberg

Im Neuenheimer Feld 307

D-69120 Heidelberg

Major Research Interests:

Cell Biology of Peroxisomes, Histochemistry, Cytochemistry, Electron Microscopy

Educational Background:

1953 University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany Graduated from Premedical School

1957 Graduated from Medical School, University of Heidelberg

Top Student in class of 90

1958 M.D. Thesis, University of Heidelberg (Magna cum laude)

Research and Professional Appointments:

1975-2001 Professor and Chair, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology,

Division of Medical Cell Biology, University of Heidelberg Medical

School, Heidelberg, Germany.

1975-1980 Lecturer in Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

1974-1975 Visiting Professor of Anatomy, University of Heidelberg Medical

School, Heidelberg, Germany.

1971-1975 Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School,

Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

1967-1971 Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School,

Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

1966-1975 Associate Pathologist and Member of Staff, Mallory Insitute of Pathology,

Harvard Patholgy Unit, Boston City Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

1964-1966 Research Associate, Laboratoire de Cytologie et de Cancerologie

Experimentale, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

(Director: Professor Albert Claude).

1960-1964 Residency Training in Pathology, Mallory Institute of Patholoy,

Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Professional Memberships:

1960 American Federation for Clinical Research

1967 American Society for the Advancement of Science

1967 American Society of Investigative Pathology

1967 The Histochemical Society (USA)

1968 American Society for Cell Biology

1975 German Society for Cell Biology, Founding Member (President 1987-1990)

1978 International Society for Histochemistry (President 1993-1995)

1992 International Federation of Societies for Histochemistry and Cytochemistry

(Secretary General 1992-1996)

Member of Editorial Boards of:

Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry (Seattle), since 1973, Associate Editor, since 1997

Histochemical Journal (London), since 1978

European Journal of Cell Biology (Stuttgart), since 1978

Acta Histochemica and Cytochemica (Kyoto), since 1986

Acta Hisotchemica (Jena), 1991-1998

Histochemistry and Cell Biology (Heidelberg), since 1991

Clinical Electron Microscopy (Sapporo), since 1996

Awards and Honors:

1971-1975 Recipient, Research Career Development Award, National Institute of Health

(NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, USA.

1968-1977 Research grants of NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.

1981-present  Research grants of DFG (German Research Foundation).

1986 Medal of Honor, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan.

1993 Medal of Honor, Cracow University School of Medicine, Cracow, Poland.

2000 Honorary Membership of Society for Histochemistry