Jalal Jazayeri

Biography

Dr Jalal Jazayeri is currently a senior lecturer in Microbiology in the School of Biomedical Sciences. Jalal received his Ph.D degree in Molecular Microbiology from the University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland, having previously completed a Master's degree (M.Sc.) in Biological Engineering and Biotechnology from the University of Birmingham in England. After several years of post-doctoral research at various institutions Jalal joined Monash university (2001-2010) where, in addition to research, he has been involved in teaching and coordination of a number of subjects taught in the Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences degree programs. These included pharmaceutical microbiology, molecular biology, introductory physiology, biochemistry and the basis of drug action. In addition, during this time Jalal has also been involved in a number of research projects which included (i) Microbiology: molecular genotyping and characterization of virulence factors in the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates obtained from cystic fibrosis patients (ii) DNA vaccines: development of DNA vaccines using the bacterium listeria monocytogenes as delivery vehicle (iii) Inflammatory joint diseases: the role of pro-inflammatory cytokines in cartilage degradation, synovial membrane inflammation and the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and (iv) Gene Therapy: design of non-viral gene delivery vehicle (lipopeptide based vectors) as transfection agents for therapeutic delivery of DNA fragments into the nucleus of cells.

Research Interest

Biomedical science