The doctoral thesis defense of Narges Ahmadi, a general medicine doctoral student at Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, was held on Monday, November 2, 2026, at the Dar al-Quran of the holy Razavi Shrine. Her thesis was titled “Investigating the Effect of Caper Plant Extract Supplementation on Cytokine Gene Expression in Patients with Treatment-Resistant Rheumatoid Arthritis.”