Life 101 For College Students | Mahtab Jafari at TEDxUCIrvine
TEDxUCIrvine | Collaborating Forward
Monday, May 13, 2013
Mahtab Jafari fell in love with teaching and science when she was in 5th grade in elementary school. As the Director of Pharmaceutical Sciences Undergraduate Program at the University of California, Irvine, she developed the first undergraduate degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences in the UC System and helped found the Department. She has a diverse research background in basic, translational, and clinical sciences. Currently, the focus of her research is to slow aging, extend lifespan and improve health span, using human cultured cells, fruit flies and mice as her model systems. Dr. Jafari is the recipient of many teaching awards including the 2008 UCI Teaching Award, the 2008 UCI Chancellor’s Award for Fostering Undergraduate Research, and the 2011 UCI Pharmaceutical Sciences Overall Outstanding Professor award. She received the UCI Susan Samueli Center for Integrative Medicine Discovery Award in 2012 and has also been selected among “20 Women to Watch in Orange County” by OC Metro Business Magazine.