About Shiva Nemati

Shiva Nemati received her PhD in Biochemistry in 2016 from Iran. Her research mainly focused on exploring the role and behaviour of neural stem cells in neurodevelopment. Through her affiliation with Royan Institute in Tehran (2008-2020), she gained extensive experience in generation and large scale expansion of the regional specific neural stem cell lines derived from pluripotent stem cells, and isolation of NSCs from rodents and human brain autopsies. Shiva has also contributed to development of cellular therapies for spinal cord injury in non-human primate models. More recently, Shiva has focused on generation and characterization of human cerebral organoid models that can be exploited for studying neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative mechanisms of the CNS. Shiva joined Karimi’s lab in 2020 as a postdoctoral research fellow and transitioned to Research Associate position in the lab. . She studies neural stem cell mechanisms with a focus on neurogenesis and its impact on behavioral impairments associated with multiple sclerosis by employing relevant in vitro and animal models of MS.