Basic and Clinical Toxicology of Mustard Compounds (PDF)

Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, where he has served as director since 1988. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the Scientific Journal of Birjand University of Medical Sciences (since 2002) and an associate editor or editorial board member of numerous national and international medical journals.

Dr. Balali-Mood's research areas include clinical toxicology of chemical warfare agents, organophosphorous pesticide poisonings, heavy metals, drug abuse and overdosage, epidemiology of poisonings, occupational and environmental toxicology, and natural toxins, including snake and spider venoms. He is the author or editor of 29 books and book chapters, 147 articles, and 289 short papers and abstracts. He is also the recipient of several national and international prizes for teaching, research, and medical care. His recent books Basic and Clinical Toxicology of Organophosphorus Compounds (also with Mohammad Abdollahi) and Biological Toxins and Bioterrorism were published by Springer in 2014 and 2015, respectively.





Mohammad Abdollahi earned a Pharm.D. in 1988 from the University of Tehran and later completed a Ph.D. in toxicology and pharmacology in 1994 at the Tehran University of Medical Sciences. In 2001, Dr. Abdollahi completed his postdoctoral training in mechanistic toxicology at the University of Toronto's School of Pharmacy. While in Toronto, he also contributed to a key meta-analysis study at the university's School of Medicine. In 2002 he was given a full professorship at the Tehran University of Medical Sciences. There he has chaired the Department of Toxicology and Pharmacology in the Faculty of Pharmacy since 2005.

Dr. Abdollahi has authored or coauthored more than 600 journal articles and 48 book chapters and has edited 11 books. He is the Editor-in-Chief of DARU Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Journal of Medical Hypotheses and Ideas. Additionally, he has served on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (since 2012); as a member of the World Health Organization's Guidelines Development Group for the Prevention of Lead Poisoning (since 2011); as a council member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (2013-2014); as Iran's country correspondent to the World Library of Toxicology (since 2008); as a fellow of the Islamic-World Academy of Sciences (since 2007); on the Board of Directors of the Iran Chapter of the International Society of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (since 2013), of which is also a founding member; and on the Board of Directors of the Asian Council of Science Editors (since 2014).

Dr. Abdollahi is the recipient of numerous awards, including the prestigious award of IAS-COMSTECH in the field of pharmacology and toxicology (2005). His main research interests are mechanistic and environmental toxicology, evidence-based medicine, and pharmacology