Saran Lotfollahzadeh Hear my name
Postdoctoral Associate NRSA
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Preventive Medicine




I am a physician-scientist. I underwent medical school training and embarked on an integrated five-year general and vascular surgery residency program followed by a clinical fellowship in Pediatric and Vascular Surgery focusing on cardiovascular complications and hemodialysis access in patients with end-stage kidney disease. In doing so, I developed a deep appreciation of the impact of vascular morbidities on overall disease burden. During my clinical training, I performed epidemiological research in an interdisciplinary setup as a country lead with a group in King’s College, UK. However, I was not exposed to the power of translational research. Upon joining the lab of Dr. Chitalia at the Boston University School of Medicine, I was exposed to how to bring clinically relevant problems to testing them bench and dissect mechanistically. With my clinical experience in vascular medicine, oncosurgery, and research experience in thrombosis, I was granted an AHA SFRN fellowship on cardio-oncology. I have developed various animal models, such as different models of femoral artery ligation for hind limb ischemia and inferior vena cava ligation assays in mice as a model of deep vein thrombosis. My passion is to understand molecular pathobiology driving such fundamental processes and amalgamate the clinical experience with translational science focusing on cardiometabolic risk factors.

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  1. Lotfollahzadeh S, Vazirani A, Sellinger IE, Clovie J, Hoekstra I, Patel A, Malloum AB, Yin W, Paul H, Yadati P, Siracus J, Malikova M, Pernar LI, Francis J, Stern L, Chitalia VC. Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Pathway Augments Peritoneal Fibrosis in a Murine CKD Model Exposed to Peritoneal Dialysate. Kidney360. 2024 Sep 01; 5(9):1238-1250.View Related Profiles. PMID: 39235862; DOI: 10.34067/KID.0000000000000516;
     
  2. Zhu M, Farber A, King E, Alonso A, Kobzeva-Herzog A, Cooper J, Lotfollahzadeh S, Chitalia VC, Siracuse JJ. Early Kidney Transplantation or Conversion to Peritoneal Dialysis after First-Time Arteriovenous Access Creation. Ann Vasc Surg. 2024 Nov; 108:57-64.View Related Profiles. PMID: 38942372
     
  3. Bathla T, Lotfollahzadeh S, Quisel M, Mehta M, Malikova M, Chitalia VC. End Organ Affection in Sickle Cell Disease. Cells. 2024 May 29; 13(11).View Related Profiles. PMID: 38891066; PMCID: PMC11174153; DOI: 10.3390/cells13110934;
     
  4. Lotfollahzadeh S, Jose A, Zarnaab Shafiq E, El Sherif N, Smith M, Han J, Seta F, Chitalia V. Two methods of isolation of rat aortic smooth muscle cells with high yield. Biol Methods Protoc. 2024; 9(1):bpae038.View Related Profiles. PMID: 39006461; PMCID: PMC11244693; DOI: 10.1093/biomethods/bpae038;
     
  5. Zhang M, Lotfollahzadeh S, Elzinad N, Yang X, Elsadawi M, Gower AC, Belghasem M, Shazly T, Kolachalama VB, Chitalia VC. Alleviating iatrogenic effects of paclitaxel via antiinflammatory treatment. Vasc Med. 2024 Aug; 29(4):369-380.View Related Profiles. PMID: 38623630; PMCID: PMC11365010; DOI: 10.1177/1358863X241231942;
     
  6. Lotfollahzadeh S, Yang X, Wu Wong DJ, Han J, Seta F, Ganguli S, Jose A, Ravid K, Chitalia VC. Venous Thrombosis Assay in a Mouse Model of Cancer. J Vis Exp. 2024 Jan 05; (203).View Related Profiles. PMID: 38251710
     
  7. Rahimi N, White MR, Amraei R, Lotfollahzadeh S, Xia C, Michalak M, Costello CE, Mühlberger E. Calreticulin Regulates SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Turnover and Modulates SARS-CoV-2 Infectivity. Cells. 2023 Nov 23; 12(23).View Related Profiles. PMID: 38067122; PMCID: PMC10705507; DOI: 10.3390/cells12232694;
     
  8. Belghasem M, Yin W, Lotfollahzadeh S, Yang X, Meyer RD, Napoleon MA, Sellinger IE, Vazirani A, Metrikova E, Jose A, Zhebrun A, Whelan SA, Lee N, Rahimi N, Chitalia VC. Tryptophan Metabolites Target Transmembrane and Immunoglobulin Domain-Containing 1 Signaling to Augment Renal Tubular Injury. Am J Pathol. 2023 Oct; 193(10):1501-1516.View Related Profiles. PMID: 37676196; PMCID: PMC10548275; DOI: 10.1016/j.ajpath.2023.06.018;
     
  9. Martens KL, Li A, La J, May SB, Swinnerton KN, Tosi H, Elbers DC, Do NV, Brophy MT, Gaziano JM, Lotfollahzadeh S, Chitalia V, Ravid K, Fillmore NR. Epidemiology of Cancer-Associated Venous Thromboembolism in Patients With Solid and Hematologic Neoplasms in the Veterans Affairs Health Care System. JAMA Netw Open. 2023 Jun 01; 6(6):e2317945.View Related Profiles. PMID: 37306999; PMCID: PMC10261992; DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.17945;
     
  10. Lotfollahzadeh S, Xia C, Amraei R, Hua N, Kandror KV, Farmer SR, Wei W, Costello CE, Chitalia V, Rahimi N. Inactivation of Minar2 in mice hyperactivates mTOR signaling and results in obesity. Mol Metab. 2023 Jul; 73:101744.View Related Profiles. PMID: 37245847; PMCID: PMC10267597; DOI: 10.1016/j.molmet.2023.101744;
     
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Bar chart showing 31 publications over 9 distinct years, with a maximum of 6 publications in 2013 and 2023 and 2024

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