Iran Stands 2nd in World Ranking of Neurogenetics

Chairman of the Iranian Neurogenetics Society Mohammad Hassan Kariminejad announced on Wednesday that Iran has managed to improve its world ranking of neurogenetics to the 2nd in 2012 after it founded the neurogenetics society.

“Iran has managed to stand 2nd in the world ranking of neurogenetics, following Germany, by establishing the neurogenetics society,” Kariminejad said.

The society’s statute was developed in 2004, and it started its activities a year later, he said, and added that Germany was the first country in the world which founded such a society 9 years ago.

Iran has taken wide strides in science and technology, particularly in medical and medicinal fields, in recent years.

In January, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a ceremony in Tehran unveiled 6 new types of home-made medicines used for treating various kinds of diseases.

The Iranian president unveiled 2 new types of drugs and 4 types of raw materials for treating osteoporosis, hemophilia and neurological, skin and muscle diseases and breast cancer.

Iranian scientists had also in 2011 managed to produce a new type of anti-cancer drug using the venoms of reptiles like snakes and scorpions.

“After several years of research and studies on a combination of snake and scorpion venoms, the anti-cancer drug was produced in Iran,” Abbas Zare’, Director of the Venomous Animals Department of Iran’s Razi Vaccine and Serum Research Institute, told reporters in October.

“This anti-cancer drug has been produced from snake and scorpion venoms after 10 years of research work and has been extracted from the fat (peptide) of such animals,” he said at that time.