Dr. Vahid Rezania
10700 – 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
Dr. Vahid Rezania, professor in the Department of Physical Sciences, has been at MacEwan University since 2004. He received his PhD in theoretical physics in 2000. In October 2000, he joined the University of Alberta where he continued his research as a postdoctoral fellow and then as research associate. At MacEwan University, he has developed and taught numerous physics courses at different levels (first year to fourth year). He also has significantly contributed to the research culture in the department and university. He has published several peer-reviewed articles in internationally recognized journals and presented his works at highly reputable conferences. He has been collaborating with several faculties from University of Alberta, University of Calgary, University of California, Santa Barbara, and University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
- PHYS 124/126
- PHYS 144/146
- PHYS 200
- PHYS 208
- PHYS 212
- PHYS 224
- PHYS 308
- PHYS 398/498
Dr. Rezania is currently working on a project to understand how a human liver functions. Using computational modelings, he simulates drug distribution and metabolisms through the liver. In particular, he is interested in understanding how as a blood-like fluid containing drug molecules flows through the liver, liver cells are able to separate drug molecules from the blood and perform an enzymatic transformation or remove them from the blood.
Rezania, V., Coombe, D., & Tuszynski, J. (2020). Liver bioreactor design issues of fluid flow and zonation, fibrosis, and mechanics: A computational perspective, Journal of Functional Biomaterials, 11(1), 13.
Arbabi Moghadam, S., Rezania, V., & Tuszynski, J. A. (2020). Cell death and survival due to cytotoxic exposure modelled as a two-state Ising system. Royal Society Open Science, 7(2), 191578.
Kalra, A.P., Patel, S.D., Winter, P., Kumar, P., Wang, H., Rezania, V., . . . Tuszynski, J.A. (2020). Revealing and attenuating the electrostatic properties of tubulin and microtubules, Biophysical Journal, 118(3), 622a.
Kalra, A.P., Patel, S.D., Bhuiyan, A.F., Preto, J., Scheuer, K.G., Rezania, V., . . . Tuszynski, J.A. (2020). Investigation of the electrical properties of microtubule ensembles under cell-like conditions, Nanomaterials, 10(2), 265.
Kalrat, A., Patel, S., Bhuiyan, A., Rezania, V., Lewis, J., Shankar, K., Tuszynski, J. A. (2019). Tubulin and microtubules as molecular targets for TTfield therapy, Neuro-oncology.
- Strategic Research Grant, 2015 and 2020
- Research Project Grant, 2010, 2014, and 2018
- Dissemination Grant 2008, 2010, and 2018
- Research Associate, Sept. 2003 - Aug. 2005, University of Alberta, Edmonton
- Postdoctoral Fellowship, Oct. 2000 - Aug. 2003, University of Alberta, Edmonton
- Royal Society Visitor Grant, June - Nov. 1999, Institute of Cosmology & Gravitation, Portsmouth University, UK
- PhD Scholarship, 1995 – 2000, Iranian Ministry of Culture and Higher Education, Zanjan, Iran
- First rank graduated student in Physics, 1994, Department of Physics, Shiraz University, Iran
- American Physical Society, member 2004–2006
- The Society for Mathematical Biology, member, 2009–present