Ostovar was announced as the 2022 recipient of The State of Kuwait Prize for the Control of Cancer, Cardiovascular Diseases and Diabetes in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, according to a Wednesday report by the Iranian health ministry.
The report said a senior health ministry official had received the prize on behalf of Ostovar during a ceremony in Kuwait.
It added that researchers from 22 countries had been shortlisted for the award which is directly funded by the Kuwaiti government.
Ostovar is a professor at Tehran University of Medical Science (TUMS) and leads TUMS’s Endocrine & Metabolism Research Institute.
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