An Iranian postgraduate university whose faculty have conducted research relevant to missiles and military drones; individuals affiliated with the university have previously been involved in Iran's nuclear weapons program.

In cooperation with scientists from Islamic Azad University (IAU), faculty members have conducted research on liquid-propellant rocket engines; faculty members have researched technology capable of improving the performance of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and increasing the amount of missiles and other weapons that UAVs can carry; faculty members have also studied the long-term health effects of mustard gas and methods of neutralizing anthrax.

In 2013, joined the Defense Industries Organization (DIO), the Defense Industries Training and Research Institute, the Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research (SPND), Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Malek Ashtar University (MUT), and Sharif University of Technology (SUT) in sponsoring the Third National Conference on the Defense Applications of Nanoscience, hosted at Imam Hussein University (IHU).

In 2004, allegedly was the intended recipient of an ultrasonic liquid processor obtained in the United States by Mohammad Reza Vaghari; has been a customer of Ervin Danesh Aryan Company, Parto Zist Behboud, and Vakav Kimia Novin; affiliated with Iranian-Syrian Farabi University, an academic institution under development in Syria.

Medical school has departments in bacteriology, biotechnology, clinical biochemistry, immunology, microbiology, medical physics, parasitology, radiology, and virology.

Faculty in the Department of Physics specialize in atomic and molecular physics, condensed matter physics, lasers and optics, and particle and quantum field theory; the Atomic and Molecular Physics Group, a research group operating under the Department of Physics, has studied the applications of nanotechnology in nuclear technology and operates laboratories focused on nanophotonics, plasma, and spectroscopy.

Chancellor is Farhad Daneshjou, who previously served as chancellor from 2005 to 2010; Kamran Daneshju, reportedly a former member of the board of trustees, served as a project head in the Amad Plan, a pre-2004 Iranian program to develop nuclear weapons.

Faculty members include Sayyed Mohammad Mehdi Hadavi (associate professor of engineering), who served as a project supervisor in the Amad Plan.

Former students have included Jalal Emami Gharah Hajjlu; Amir Hossein Rahimiyar has carried out research with the university.

Consists of 17 faculties and offers master's degrees in 171 fields and doctorates in 132 fields; operates the Modares Science and Technology Park and 14 research institutes, including a research center specializing in biotechnology; hosts a branch of the Academic Center for Education, Culture, and Research (ACECR); claims to employ 679 faculty members in total.

Established in 1981; established a medical school in 1983.

Sanctions

Listed by the Japanese government in 2022 as an entity of concern for proliferation relating to missiles and biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons.

Listed by the British government in 2015 as an entity of potential concern for WMD-related procurement, and has had export licenses both granted and denied by that government, but removed in 2017 after the U.K. withdrew its Iran list.