Current Positions

- Professor, Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba
- Founding Director, Manitoba Multiple Sclerosis Research Centre (MMSRC)
- Scientist, Children’s Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba (CHRIM)
- Principal Investigator, Spinal Cord Research Center (SCRC)
- Member, Excellence in Neurodevelopment And Rehabilitation Research In Child Health (ENRRICH)
- Board of Directors, Canadian Association for neuroscience
- Secretary, International Neurotrauma Society
- Executive Member, International Women in Multiple Sclerosis

Education

PhD (Neuroscience), University of Saskatchewan
Postdoctoral Fellowship (Neural Regeneration and Stem Cell Research), Toronto Western Research Institute, Toronto

Research Focus

Karimi's research program focuses on development of regenerative medicine strategies for treating spinal cord injury and Multiple Sclerosis. We develop and evaluate pharmacological and stem cell-based therapies to promote neural repair and regeneration using pre-clinical and transgenic animal models and human organoid platform. We also utilize human derived tissue samples and stem cells to verify the clinical relevance of our preclinical discoveries.

Research Interests

- Regenerative Medicine
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Spinal Cord Injury
- Human Neural Stem Cells
- Neurodegeneration
- Neural repair and regeneration
- Neurological recovery