Biography

Dr. Mehdi Razavi is an Associate Professor of Medicine and a member of the Biionix (Bionic Materials, Implants & Interfaces) Cluster at the University of Central Florida (UCF) since 2024. He joined UCF as an Assistant Professor in 2019. Prior to his tenure at UCF, Dr. Razavi was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Regenerative Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine from 2016 to 2019. He also served as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biomaterials at the Brunel Centre for Advanced Solidification Technology within the Institute of Materials and Manufacturing and Brunel Institute for Bioengineering at Brunel University London from 2015 to 2016. Earlier in his career, he was a Research Scholar in Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Helmerich Advanced Technology Research Center, Oklahoma State University from 2013 to 2014. Dr. Razavi earned his PhD in Biomaterials from Isfahan University of Technology in 2014, an MSc in Materials Engineering in 2011, and a BSc in Materials Engineering from the same university in 2008. His research focuses on biomaterials, nanomedicine, musculoskeletal tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, advanced biomanufacturing, and drug and gene delivery systems. He has taught courses in nanomedicine and biomaterials and has held numerous leadership and editorial roles, including serving on various College of Medicine committees, as a chief editor, an editorial board member, a scientific reviewer, a Society for Biomaterials committee member, and a reviewer for the NIH Study Section.

Recent Publications:

• Pedram Sotoudeh Bagha, Elayaraja Kolanthai, Fei Wei, Craig J. Neal, Udit Kumar, Gillian Braun, Melanie Coathup, Sudipta Seal, Mehdi Razavi, “Ultrasound-Responsive Nanobubbles for Combined siRNA-Cerium Oxide Nanoparticle Delivery to Bone Cells”, Pharmaceutics 2023, 15, 2393, DOI: 10.3390/pharmaceutics15102393.
• Mihaela Kancheva, Lauren Aronson, Tara Pattilachan, Francesco Sautto, Benjamin Daines, Donald Thommes, Angela Shar, Mehdi Razavi, “Bubble-Based Drug Delivery Systems: Next-Generation Diagnosis to Therapy”, Journal of Functional Biomaterials (Special Issue Nanoparticles and Hydrogel for Drug Delivery: Design and Synthesis), 14 (2023) 373, DOI:10.3390/jfb14070373.
• Nadia Aboutalebianaraki, Peter Zeblisky, M. D. Sarker, Aadithya Jeyaranjan, Tamil S Sakthivel,Yifei Fu, John Lucchi, Matthieu Baudelet, Sudipta Seal, Thomas J. Kean, Mehdi Razavi, “An osteogenic magnesium alloy with improved corrosion resistance, antibacterial, and mechanical properties for orthopedic applications”, Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A 111 (2023) 556–574;1–19, DOI: 10.1002/jbm.a.37476.

For more information about Dr. Razavi’s laboratory, please visit this website: https://med.ucf.edu/mrazavi/