Alireza Abazari, PhD BioLife Solutions

Dr. Abazari is a Scientific Applications Director at BioLife Solutions, Inc. Dr. Abazari received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from University of Alberta, Canada in 2011, where he studied hypothermic and cryopreservation damages at micro- and macroscopic levels for human tissue banking.

In 2013, Dr. Abazari was the recipient of a Fellowship from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), to complete his postdoctoral training at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, where he investigated diffusional and electroporation-assisted transport phenomena in biological cells and tissues, and developed a Raman microspectroscopy technique for investigating water and protein distributions in lyophilized mammalian cells at subcellular level.

Dr. Abazari joined BioLife Solutions in 2015, and as part of his role as Scientific Applications Director, he advises and collaborates with multiple academic, clinical, and commercial cellular therapy groups, assisting in their development efforts to improve process efficacy and efficiency.

Since joining BioLife Solutions, Dr. Abazari has been an active member of the PDA, ISCT, American Society for Transplant (AST), Organ Preservation Alliance (OPA), American Association of Blood Banks (AABB), Society for Cryobiology, and a guest member in Biomedical Excellence for Safer Transfusion (BEST) Collaborative.