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MASHHAD — Increasing life span is possible through gene delivery, a  distinguished Iranian scientist, Morteza Rafiee Tehrani, told the Tehran Times.

Rafiee Tehrani, a professor of pharmaceutics at Tehran University of Medical Sciences and Medical Pharmacy, is now doing research on controlled release systems, producing oral insulin for diabetic patients, and gene delivery to cancer cells. 

“Gene delivery is really a goal that I wish to make it till I am alive. If we can be successful in this job to produce genes for different diseases, let’s say for cancer cells, obesity, cardiovascular diseases, etc, which may be in the next two decades, I am sure gene delivery will be accessible and many products will hit markets. And then we can treat many diseases basically,” Rafiee Tehrani explained on the sidelines of the 5th International Conference on Controlled Release.

Rafiee Tehrani, who is the representative of Iran in the area of medical pharmacy at the World Health Organization (WHO), went on to say that patients who suffer from diseases such as hypertension, hypercholesterolemia and cardiovascular diseases have to take different drugs through their life in order to control their health problems, however, by gene delivery method a patient can be cured completely and does not need to take drugs during his lifetime. 

The main purpose of the controlled release systems is to reduce chemical drugs toxicity which has turned into a global challenge in the conventional method of treating patients. 

In fact drugs are toxic substances which have therapeutic and non-therapeutic toxic effects on one’s body, mind, and psyche. Scientists throughout the world including Iran have been trying to apply new methods to reduce such toxic effects.

More than 300 university professors, medical doctors and medical pharmacy students took part in the biannual international meeting in Mashhad which opened on October 4 and closed on October 6. The conference was successful in updating the participants’ knowledge of medical pharmacy and encouraging them to work harder to help patients get rid of the side effects of chemical drugs.