Research Fellow
Niloufar received her MD from Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, in 2021. Throughout her medical school years, she contributed to clinical, translational, and basic science research projects. In 2022, she joined the Department of Surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Niloufar’s current projects in the Fahey-Zarnegar lab focus on studying the clinical outcomes of minimally invasive anti-gastroesophageal reflux surgery and investigating signaling pathways in thyroid cancer therapy.