 He was also selected as one of the 20 stem cell person of the year 2017 award nominees hosted by THE NICHE site.He is also the winner of the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) prize in Biology (2019) for his fundamental contribution to the understanding of how pluripotency and differentiation establish and maintain in stem cells.Moreover, as of now three companies are spun off from the work he initiated and directed at the Royan Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Technology including Cell Tech Pharmed as a cell factory for cell therapy, Royan Biotech for production of recombinant proteins, and Royan Stem Cell Technology for banking of cord blood stem cells.