Services were held Feb. 19 for Hamid Basiri, a graduate student in the Pathology Department, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. Basiri died Feb. 13 from cancer. He was 35.

A native of Iran, Basiri received his B.S. degree in medical technology at UB, and the M.S. degree in natural sciences from UB's Roswell Park Graduate Division. He was pursuing a Ph.D. degree at the time of his death.

Basiri's thesis work was focused on identifying and characterizing the natural killer cell subset that was responsible for specific transplantation resistance in mice. In April, 1994, he was a speaker in a symposium at the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology in Anaheim, Calif.

His work was published in 1995 in the Journal of Immunology, a leading journal in the field, with Basiri as first author. He is survived by his wife, Christine Ambrosone, a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine at UB.