The Iranian Biomedical Journal is an international quarterly publication of the Pasteur Institute of Iran. IBJ is a research and fully peer-reviewed journal and predominantly devoted to reporting original contributions from all areas of the basic sciences and biomedical researches. The Journal has a broad geographic coverage in the country, Middle East regions, Africa, Europe, Australia and USA and provides information for researchers, educators, students and those in the health professions.IBJ is indexing:PubMed/MEDLINE, Index Medicus, Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, BIOBASE Scopus, Google Scholar, Chemical Abstracts, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, CAB Abstracts, Index Copernicus, CINAHL Plus, CINAHL, VCU Library, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Index Medicus for the WHO Eastern Mediteranean Region (IMEMR), Islamic World Science Citation Database (ISC).