Ahmad Reza Dehpour is an Iranian

Iranian peoples

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 pharmacologist

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 and biomedical scientist

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Dehpour studied pharmacy at Tehran University and received a PhD degree in Pharmacology from Tehran Medical School. He was editor in chief of the journal "Acta Medica Iranica", published by the Tehran University of Medical Sciences and general secretary of the Iranian society of physiology

Physiology

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and pharmacology. He is also a member of Editorial Board in "Liver International" the Official Journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver.

He is currently full professor at Tehran Medical School. Dehpour published more than 250 original research papers in international journals. Because of his significant contribution to the fields of gastroentrology and molecular pharmacology, he was awarded as 2006 best researcher of Iran. In December 2006, won the first prize at the Razi International Festival