the deputy research and technology minister of health said: iran's science production acceleration in the field of health is 8.23 percent , which should become double digits. mr. panahi added that in order to achieve this goal, universities of medical sciences are divided into 10 major regions in a territorial arrangement each university has defined a special mission. according to scopus, the world's largest citation database, iran's scientific position in the field of medical sciences is ranked 15th in the world. currently, 25 research networks, 69 research institutes, 821 government research centers and 40 mission-oriented non-government research centers are active in the field of medical sciences in the country. in addition to our research networks, we have biobanks. we now have about 36 biobanks in the country, where the data of important diseases are being collected, 60 and 48 disease registration programs or registries. we have a set and health messages based on statistics ministry of health, out of 22,000 health faculty members , 1,634 are members of the research faculty, 30%