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Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, possibly Amiri-Moghadam, (born 21 April 1971) is a Norwegian-Iranian neuroscientist and human rights advocate. Amiry-Moghaddam spent his first few years in the city of Kerman about 1000 kilometers south-east of Tehran in Iran. He arrived in Norway as a refugee of minor age, via Pakistan in 1985. Amiry-Moghaddam completed his medical studies in 1996 at the University of Oslo, and later obtained a PhD at the Center for Neuroscience and Molecular Biology 〔(Centre for Molecular Biology and Neuroscience )〕 in that university. In 2004, he received the King's gold medal for the best medical doctorate at the University of Oslo. Amiry-Moghaddam has been a collaborator to Peter Agre, who received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2003. Amiry-Moghaddam spent one year as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School in 2006. Amiry-Moghaddam was awarded the Anders Jahre Awards medicine prize for young scientists in 2008,〔http://www.med.uio.no/imb/jahre/abstracts/abstract2008.html Anders Jahre's Awards for Medical Research〕 He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. In 2013, Amiry-Moghaddam was selected by an independent panel as one of the 10 "brightest minds" in Norway.〔(Norges smarteste hoder )〕 The list was published in the Norwegian newspaper VG. Amiry-Moghaddam is well known as a defender of human rights. He received the Norwegian Amnesty International's human rights prize in 2007 〔(The Amnesty Human Rights Prize 2007: Mahmood Amiry-Moghadddam – an every day hero in the fight for human rights )〕 for his work against the human rights violations in Iran. Today, he works as a Professor in Medicine and head of the Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience at the University of Oslo. He is also co-founder and spokesperson for the NGO Iran Human Rights〔(Iran Human Rights )〕 which monitors the violations of human rights in Iran. == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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