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Samuel Rahbar (born in 1929 in Hamedan, Iran) in a jewish family is an Iranian scientist who discovered HbA1C, a form of hemoglobin used primarily to identify plasma glucose concentration over time.

He obtained his MD degree from the University of Tehran in 1953 and a PhD degree in immunology from the same university in 1963.

From 1952 to 1960 Rahbar pursued mainly clinical activities in Abadan and Tehran returning to academic life as a postdoctoral fellow in 1959. After earning his PhD, he was promoted to Assistant Professor in 1963 and to Associate Professor in 1965 in the Department of Immunology.

He spent 1968-1969 as visiting scientist at the Department of Medicine of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, where he collaborated with Helen M. Ranney. After his return to Tehran Rahbar was promoted to full professor in 1970 and to director of the Department of Applied Biology in the University of Tehran Medical School in Tehran.

[edit] See also

• Iranian science

[edit] External links

• Biography of Samuel Rahbar in Iran Science Island(Persian)