en Related Fields Related Fields مقالات بیوگرافی Biography Papers <span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="unicode-bidi:embed"><b><span style="color:black">INTRODUCTION </span></b></span></span></span></span> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">With <span style="line-height:normal"><span style="unicode-bidi:embed"><span sans-serif=""><span new="" roman="" times="">the aim of providing community health, the Pasteur Institute of Iran was established in 1920 as the oldest medical and health research institution in Iran. In addition to conducting research relevant to infectious diseases and manufacturing biological products, this institute has significantly contributed to the prevention and control of communicable diseases for more than a century.&nbsp;</span></span></span></span><span style="line-height:115%"><span new="" roman="" times="">As an elder in the institute, Dr. Mahdokht Pourmansour, a physician and specialist in microbiology&nbsp;and laboratory science, was a prominent researcher at the Pasteur Institute of Iran. During four decades of her service to the institute, she has performed remarkable activities, particularly in the development of the Bacille Calmette-Gu&eacute;rin vaccine to prevent tuberculosis. In this biography paper, her scientific life and services are reviewed</span></span><span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span style="line-height:115%"><span new="" roman="" times="">.</span></span></span></span><br> &nbsp;</span></div> <span style="font-size:14px;"> <span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"> </span></span> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="unicode-bidi:embed"><span sans-serif=""><b><span new="" roman="" times=""><span style="color:black">Early </span></span></b><b><span new="" roman="" times=""><span style="color:black">life</span></span></b><b><span new="" roman="" times=""><span style="color:black"></span></span></b></span></span></span><br> <span style="line-height:normal"><span style="unicode-bidi:embed"><span sans-serif=""><span new="" roman="" times="">Mahdokht Pourmansour was born on January 7^th, 1935 in Tehran, the capital city of Iran. She attended Mehregan and Asadi elementary schools in Tehran from 1940 to 1946. During the time periods 1946-1952, she continued her high school education at Nizam Vafa in Ahvaz and obtained her high school diploma at Azarm high school in Tehran. From 1952 to 1958, she received her doctorate in medicine from the University of Tehran.&nbsp;</span><span new="" roman="" times="">During the years 1967-1968, she attended the Pasteur Institute of Paris on a scholarship from the Pasteur Institute of Iran. After returning to the country in 1974, she presented the courses she took in France and obtained Ph.D. degree in clinical laboratory science at the University of Tehran. Her Ph.D. dissertation was written on the development of a cholera vaccine in laboratory animals.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div> <br> <span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">&nbsp;</span></span> Commemoration, Specialist, Vaccine 79 83 http://ibj.pasteur.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-687-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Fatemeh Bardestani fatemeh.bardestani@gmail.com 0000-0002-4276-2930 No Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran Ehsan Mostafavi mostafaviehsan@gmail.com 0000-0002-1997-517X Yes Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran