Mojgan Tahereh Khodadoust
Arts & science
a dialogue between two halves of the mind
I worked with Mojgan for almost two years, at UCSF.
Mojgan is one of the most talented colleagues I have ever worked with…both extremely detail-oriented and a perfectionist. Mojgan developed various models and always delivered the highest quality of data. In addition, Mojgan is passionate about science and scientific questioning, allowing us to move our projects beyond their initial scope.
Thomas Prod’homme, Ph.D.
Challenge me with something that can be beautiful
Skills
- Basic and translational research
- Data analytics and visualization
- Grant & primary literature writing
- Clinical trial management
- Graphic and web design
about: Research
for the passion of science
Cloned my first gene at 13, started a nonprofit at 15 while too young to be on its board, which served to co-manifest a vision, a hope, a dream into a functional hospital abroad. While its existence has since inspired others to progress medicine forward overseas, I returned with my focus towards basic science research — immunology, developmental neurobiology and stem cell differentiation, neuroimmunology, and laboratory medicine. My love of art, design, and data led me to learn to code so I could apply math and see the results in the voodoo of “data science”. I still hold passions in many disciplines, from public health/epidemiology to cellular signaling cascades, from neuroscience to SQUID-detector based MRI, and I would say from science to art except that I find them bound together.
I seek to use my powers for good, where I can, with those who feel passion about working towards ends we value. I want to be at a place where we can be curious, be inspired, strive together, laugh about falling on our faces in the process, and continue to venture forth to that beautiful thing.
Mojgan is extremely bright and motivated. Her initial responsibilities included culturing and analyzing T cells that recognized aquaporin-4 (AQP4), the target autoantigen in neuromyelitis optica, a rare autoimmune disease that affects primarily the optic nerves and spinal cord. Within a few weeks, I realized that Mojgan was more talented than any Research Associate or graduate student that had worked in my laboratory previously.
Scott Zamvil, M.D./Ph.D.
Professor of Neurology, UCSF
