Mojtaba Hosseini is currently a PhD student in Karimi's laboratory. Mojtaba graduated from Medicine in 2016 from Shiraz University of Medical Science in Iran. Mojtaba worked extensively on neural stem cells and neurotrauma research during his medicine program and afterwards in collaboration with Royan Institute in Tehran. Mojtaba joined Karimi’s laboratory in May 2019 as a MSc student and transferred to the PhD program in September 2020. Mojtaba leads several projects in Karimi's lab that develops combinatorial approaches to optimize the regenerative capacity of neural stem cell endogenously and in transplantation studies in spinal cord injury. Mojtaba has obtained several studentships and awards including Will-to-Win/Manitoba Paraplegic Foundation, University of Manitoba Graduate Students Fellowship and the 2021 Hillary Kaufman Lerner Memorial Award. More notably, Mojtaba has received a prestigious international fellowship from the Wings For Life Spinal Cord Injury foundation. His first article have apppeared in reputed journals such Brain, the Journal of Neuroscience and Stem Cell Reports.