Nasrin Moazami

Nasrin Moazami is an Iranian medical microbiologist and biotechnologist. She received her Ph.D. in 1976, from the Faculty of Medicine at Laval University. Moazami is the pioneer of biotechnology and microalgae-based fuels in Iran.
Career.
She established a research center in 1987, which is the only Regional Reference Center for Biotechnology in West and Central Asia. She is the founder of the Persian Type Culture Collection (PTCC)[ originally proposed by Iranian microbiologist Bozorgmehr Vaziri. She became an affiliated member of the World Federation for Culture Collections (WFCC) in 1985 and the MIRCEN International Network in 1992. The latter is a collection of microorganisms with industrial importance.
In 1986, Moazami managed a joint project of the Iranian Research Organisation for Science and Technology (IROST) with UNDP and UNESCO, that evaluated “the feasibility of producing and using Bacillus thuringiensis to control malaria vectors in southern Iran. Their slow release formulation was patented at the European Patent Office in 2003. The project was transferred to a private company that began production of 1000 T/y in 2French 004.
From 1990 to 2004, she was Head of the IROST Biotechnology Department, and from 2004 to 2010, served as the IROST Director of Institute of Advanced Technology. 
She established the Persian Gulf Biotechnology Research Center- now the Qeshm Microalgae Biorefinery in 1995 at Qehm Island, Iran. It is an important research center for applied research in marine biotechnology.
From 2001 to 2010, she was the principal investigator of an Iranian bio-diesel and bio-ethanol based microalgae project.
In 2011 she became the manager of the National Project for scaling up microalgae-based diesel, ethanol and other valuable products of micro algae in Persian Gulf knowledge village.
In 2014 the expertise of the project was transferred to an Iranian private sector "Qeshm MicroAlgae Biorefinery" (QMAB). The first 100 hectares cultivation of MicroAlgae is under construction in Qeshm Island and will be expanded to 1000 hectares in three years by the company (www.qmabco.com).
In 2016 Professor Moazami was appointed as a member of the Scientific Board of the International Basic Sciences Program (IBSP) of UNESCO (http://en.irost.org/content/professor-nasrin-moazami-appointed-member-ibsp-unesco).