Science and Technology in Iran

President of Iran Hassan Rouhani has highlighted the rapid progress that the science and technology parks have made in the country over the past couple of years, saying such valuable asset has helped Iran cope with the coronavirus epidemic. 

Iranian researchers have developed ventilators with a price half that of foreign-made ones.

An Iranian company has developed a homegrown technology to produce a special fabric with nanocoating to manufacture N95 and N99 masks and fulfill the...

Iranian researchers have developed ventilators as well as equipment to control pressure inside lungs for coronavirus patients.

A senior Iranian official says the coronavirus epidemic is now under control in the country thanks to people’s cooperation and efforts by knowledge-based companies and other institutions to produce the required equipment.

Iran has expressed its preparedness to send its homegrown smart coronavirus diagnosis system to all countries in the world, especially the Muslim ones, to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

Iran’s Vice President for Science and Technology has inaugurated an international health technology complex that includes innovation acceleration centers in Tehran, and has also unveiled six homegrown products used for preventing and treating the novel coronavirus.

A senior Iranian official says technical capabilities and features of a smart system recently developed by domestic experts to detect the coronavirus will soon be announced.

Iranian researchers specializing in the cell science have launched a project to use cell-therapy for treatment of the COVID-19 infection, and concluded that the injection of Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) into coronavirus patients can be effective in treating the disease.

Iran’s vice-president has launched the production line for two types of coronavirus diagnostic kits, namely PCR-based and serologic kits, at a knowledge-based company.

Researchers at Materials and Energy Research Institute of Iran have developed a device to detect and spot narcotics and explosives in one to two seconds.

Iran’s Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics has, for the first time, produced modern ion masks amid the coronavirus outbreak.

An Iranian knowledge-based company is using a domestically-developed radiation system to sterilize masks and other products including foodstuff.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says the country is attaining self-sufficiency in the production of a broad range of commodities thanks to the good investment in the development of knowledge-based companies.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has paid a visit to an exhibition of high-tech products developed by Iranian knowledge-based companies to help the country's fight against the novel coronavirus.

The first COVID-19 pneumonia diagnosis system with more than 97% accuracy has been unveiled in Iran.

In the past Iranian year major steps have been taken so that knowledge-based companies can develop their markets more than before.

Iran’s Vice President for Science and Technology says Iranian researchers have gained an achievement to diagnose COVID-19 disease by artificial intelligence.

Iran’s Vice President for Science and Technology Sorena Sattari says three domestic teams are working separately on research into a coronavirus vaccine.

Iran says its knowledge-based companies are resolved to expand their creative presence in the international markets in coming months.

As the medical ventilator has become a key device in saving coronavirus patients while COVID-19 pandemic moves around the globe, an Iranian knowledge-based company has begun to produce the homegrown version of such mechanical breathing devices.

Iranian professor Dr Masoud Soleimani says what he and his team are developing for treatment of coronavirus is a stem cell "therapy", not a drug, as claimed in a media report.

Iran’s Vice President for Science and Technology says with the help of knowledge-based companies, different types of mask production machines are being made in the country.

Masih Daneshvari Hospital in Tehran is the first medical centre in Iran to collect plasma from recovered coronavirus patients to use as a possible treatment for the disease.

Iranian knowledge-based companies engaged in the battle with COVID-19 are receiving special support and funds from the Innovation and Development Fund, an official says.