Postdoctoral fellow alireza.vaezzadeh@childrens.harvard.edu

My research subject is UreteroPelvic Junction (UPJ) Obstruction, which is the major cause of renal failure in children. This malignancy results in renal hydronephrosis in children, which can have serious long term implications. The goal of my research is to discover Urinary proteins, which can serve as biomarkers of UPJ in order to aid the clinicians in their diagnostic and monitoring of the patients.

Publications:

Vaezzadeh, A. R., Hernandez, C., Vadas, O., Deshusses, J. J., Lescuyer, P., Lisacek, F. et al.: PICarver: a software tool and strategy for peptides isoelectric focusing. J Proteome Res, 7: 4336, 2008

Vaezzadeh, A. R., Simicevic, J., Chauvet, A., Francois, P., Zimmermann-Ivol, C. G., Lescuyer, P. et al.: Imaging mass spectrometry using peptide isoelectric focusing. Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom, 22: 2667, 2008

Scherl, A., Francois, P., Charbonnier, Y., Deshusses, J. M., Koessler, T., Huyghe, A. et al.: Exploring glycopeptide-resistance in Staphylococcus aureus: a combined proteomics and transcriptomics approach for the identification of resistance-related markers. BMC Genomics, 7: 296, 2006

Scherl, A., Zimmermann-Ivol, C. G., Di Dio, J., Vaezzadeh, A. R., Binz, P. A., Amez-Droz, M. et al.: Gold coating of non-conductive membranes before matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization tandem mass spectrometric analysis prevents charging effect. Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom, 19: 605, 2005