Parham Diba
Current Program Year: Grad 3
Current student, Graduate Program in Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine
M.D./Ph.D. Program Students, School of Medicine
Biography
Research interests: Cancer-Cachexia, Cardiac Remodeling, Cardioimmunology, Cardio-oncology
Education and training
B.S., 2015, University of Oregon
Additional information
Honors and awards
SCWD Young Investigator Award, 2023
OHSU N.L. Tartar Trust Fellowship, 2023
OHSU Research Week Best Poster, 2023
OSLER TL1 Predoctoral Fellowship, 2023
OHSU N.L. Tartar Trust Fellowship, 2022
OHSU Brenden-Colson Scientific Retreat Second Prize for Best Poster, 2022
F30 predoctoral fellowship
Second-place poster presentation award (American College of Physician Abstract Competition)
Publications
Selected publications
Korzun T, Moses AS, Kin J, Patel S, Schumann C, Levasseur PR, Diba P, Olson B, Rebola KGO, Norgard M, Park Y, Demessie AA, Eygeris Y, Grigoriev V, Sundaram S, Pejovic T, Brody JR, Taratula OR, Zhu X, Sahay G, Marks DL, Tararula O. Nanoparticle-Based Follistatin Messenger RNA Therapy for Reprogramming Metastatic Ovarian Cancer and Ameliorating Cancer-Associated Cachexia. Small. 2022 Nov;18(44):e2204436. doi: 10.1002/smll.202204436.Epub 2022 Sep 13. PubMed PMID: 36098251.
Olson B, Zhu X, Norgard MA, Diba P, Levasseur PR, Buenafe AC, Huisman C, Burfeind KG, Michaelis KA, Kong G, Braun T, Marks DL. Chronic cerebral lipocalin 2 exposure elicits hippocampal neuronal dysfunction and cognitive impairment. Brain Bhav Immun. 2021 OCT;97:102-118. doi: 10.1016/J.BBI.2021.07.002. Epub 2021 Jul 8. PubMed PMID: 34245812.
Olson B, Diba P, Korzun T, Marks DL. Neural Mechanisms of Cancer Cachexia. Cancers (Basel). 2021 Aug 7;13(16). doi: 10.3390/cancers13163990. Review. PubMed PMID: 34439145.
Ganz J, Melancon E, Wilson C, Amores A, Batzel P, Strader M, Braasch I, Diba P, Kuhlman JA, Postlethwait JH, Eisen JS. Epigenetic factors Dnmt1 and Uhrf1 coordinate intestinal development. Dev Biol. 2019 Nov 15;455(2):473-484. doi: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2019.08.002. Epub 2019 Aug 5. PubMed PMID: 31394080.
Spiewak JE, Bain EJ, Liu J, Kou K, Sturiale SL, Patterson LB, Diba P, Eisen JS, Braasch I, Ganz J, Parichy DM. Evolution of Endotheling signaling and diversification of adult pigment pattern in Danio fishes. PLoS Genet. 2018 Sep;14(9):e1007538. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007538. eCollection 2018 Sep. PubMed PMID: 30226839.
Ganz J, Baker RP, Hamilton MK, Melancon E, Diba P, Eisen JS, Parthasarathy R. Image velocimetry and spectral analysis enable quantitative characterization of larval zebrafish gut motility. Neurogastroenterol Motil. 2018 Sep;30(9):e13351. doi: 10.1111/nmo.13351. Epub 2018 May 2. PubMed PMID: 29722095.
Srivastava T, Diba P, Dean JM, Banine F, Shaver D, Hagen M, Gong X, Su W, Emery B, Marks DL, Harris EN, Baggenstoss B, Weigel PH, Sherman LS, Back SA. ATLR/AKT/FoxO3 immune tolerance-like pathway disrupts the repair capacity of oligodendrocyte progenitors. J Clin Invest. 2018 May 1;128(5):2025-2041. doi: 10.1172/JCI94158. Epub 2018 Apr 16. PubMed PMID: 29664021.