Samuel Rahbar
Samuel Rahbar (
over time.Rahbar was born into a Jewish family in the Iranian city of
From 1952 to 1960 Rahbar pursued mainly clinical activities in
Rahbar spent 1968–1969 as a visiting scientist at the Department of Medicine of the
After the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Rahbar was laid off from his position as Director of the Department of Applied Biology at Tehran University. As a result of this unfair treatment he decided to take his family and leave the country in 1979.
1979 Rahbar became a researcher and professor of diabetes in the Department of Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism at the
In 2012, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) bestowed a special, one-time National Scientific Achievement Award on Rahbar in recognition of his discovery of HbA1c as a marker of glycemic status in persons with diabetes. The award is named after the awardee and is called the Samuel Rahbar Outstanding Discovery Award.[3]
See also
- Iranian science
References
- PMID 5808299.
- ^ "City of Hope".
- ^ "Samuel Rahbar Outstanding Discovery Award - American Diabetes Association". Archived from the original on 2013-04-14. Retrieved 2012-06-06.
External links
- (in Persian) Biography of Samuel Rahbar in Iran Science Island