Dr. Omid Iravani
Dr. Omid IRAVANI is a medical doctor and cancer geneticist who teaches clinical anatomy, histology, embryology and basic ultrasound in the Department of Anatomy at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at National University of Singapore (NUS). He introduced a pedagogical innovation in medical education, i.e. “Question-Based earning (2TUQBLU2T)”. He uses QBL for teaching medical, dental and life science students. The methodology was published in CDTL Brief in 2015. His research is mainly focused on developing novel cancer biomarkers. In 2017, he published a novel pathway that inhibits breast cancer growth and progression after silencing HS6ST3 gene. The paper was published in “Experimental Cell Research”. In 2016, he introduced an important prognostic marker in ER-negative breast cancer that was published in “Clinical Pathology”.