Dr. Ali Darehzereshki, earned his medical degree from Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), Tehran, Iran in 2005. Then he completed a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for 2 years in the Department of Cardiac Surgery and Transplantation Research Center (CTRC) of TUMS working on stem cell therapy in human ischemic heart diseases. Also, he spent one year in the institute for Genetic Medicine (IGM), University of Southern California in USA as a Visiting Scholar working on the transcriptional regulation of the cardiac conduction system development. In 2009, as a Research Assistant, he joined Cardiothoracic Surgery Department, Saban Research Institute of USC to study on the molecular and cellular mechanisms of heart regeneration with the long-term goal of enhancing regenerative capacity and replacing defective tissues in diseased human hearts.