Amir Rahmati

Pronouns: He/him

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Grad Research Asst Fellowship, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Dentistry Chair

Email: amirhoss@ualberta.ca

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Dectin-1 signaling promotes Galectin-3 shedding and expansion of immunosuppressive CD71+ erythroid cells in breast cancer

Ako Azimi, Amirhossein Rahmati, Shima Shahbaz, Zahra Elahi, Alireza Zahiriabyaneh, Junyan Cao, Ernesto Luisito Padua, Chloe Church, Emmanuel T. Alimo, Afsaneh Lavasanifar, John Walker, Shokrollah Elahi

OncoImmunology. 2026 December; 10.1080/2162402x.2026.2682649

Soluble CD14 promotes Th17 expansion and differentiation through gamma-aminobutyric acid and expands infidel innate lymphoid cells

Shima Shahbaz, Amirhossein Rahmati, Hussain Syed, Shokrollah Elahi

PNAS Nexus. 2026 January; 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgaf406

Erythroid-myeloid transition: a mechanism of tumor-driven immunosuppression in breast cancer

Amirhossein Rahmati, Shokrollah Elahi

The Journal of Immunology. 2025 November; 10.1093/jimmun/vkaf283.1488

Soluble CD14 through GABA production by monocytes promotes Th17 differentiation and innate lymphoid cells 3740

Shokrollah Elahi, Shima Shahbaz, Hussain Syed, Amirhossein Rahmati

The Journal of Immunology. 2025 November; 10.1093/jimmun/vkaf283.1505

Galectin-3 regulates erythropoiesis and enhances the immunoregulatory properties of CD71+ erythroid cells across developmental stages.

Shokrollah Elahi, Elahi Z, Bozorgmehr N, Rosero EP, Rahmati A, Abouda A

Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950). 2025 March; 10.1093/jimmun/vkaf020

Blood transcriptomic analyses do not support SARS-CoV-2 persistence in patients with post-COVID-19 condition with chronic fatigue syndrome

Amirhossein Rahmati, Shima Shahbaz, Mohammed Osman, Jan Willen Cohen Tervaert, Shokrollah Elahi

The Lancet Microbe. 2024 October; 10.1016/j.lanmic.2024.101012

Bipotential B-neutrophil progenitors are present in human and mouse bone marrow and emerge in the periphery upon stress hematopoiesis

Shima Shahbaz, Eliana Perez Rosero, Hussain Syed, Mark Hnatiuk, Najmeh Bozorgmehr, Amirhossein Rahmati, Sameera Zia, Jason Plemel, Mohammed Osman, Shokrollah Elahi

mBio. 2024 August; 10.1128/mbio.01599-24

An insight into the role of myeloid/erythroid progenitors in tumor progression

The Journal of Immunology. 2024 May;

Targeting Dectin-1 and or VISTA enhances anti-tumor immunity in melanoma but not colorectal cancer model

Siavash Mashhouri, Amirhossein Rahmati, Ako Azimi, Roy A. Fava, Ismail Hassan Ismail, John Walker, Shokrollah Elahi

Cellular Oncology. 2024 April; 10.1007/s13402-024-00950-w

Galectin-9 promotes natural killer cells activity via interaction with CD44

Amirhossein Rahmati, Steven Bigam, Shokrollah Elahi

Frontiers in Immunology. 2023 March; 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1131379

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