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Iranian American biomedical scientist

Saba Valadkhan (Persian: صبا ولدخان) is an Iranian Americanbiomedical scientist, and an Assistant Professor and RNA researcher at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.^[1] In 2005, she was awarded the GE / Science Young Scientist Award for her breakthrough in understanding the mechanism of spliceosomes - "akin to finding the Holy Grail of the splicingcatalysis field" ^[2] - a critical area of research, given that "20 percent or 30 percent of all human genetic diseases are caused by mistakes that the spliceosome makes".^[3]

Education

Valadkhan qualified as a medical doctor at Tehran University of Medial Sciences in Iran in 1996.

She moved to America to pursue her Ph.D. at Columbia University, New York.^[4] In 2004, she joined as an Assistant Professor Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.^[5]

Doctoral research

Valadkhan studied the