Clinical and Medical Oncology

Dr. Bashar Zeidan is an Academic Clinical Fellow in Surgery at the University of Southampton and the Lead at Mammary Fold Academic Committee.

Breast Surgery

Mohammed Y Almaghrabi is a currently working as Radiation Oncologist at King Abdullah Medical City, Saudi Arabia. He is leading Stereotactic RadioSurgery/Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy task groups at the same Hospital. He is a CNS tumour board chairman. He was Head of Radiation Oncology department at Prince Faisal Cancer Centre, Saudi Arabia. He holds his Research experience from University of Ottawa Canada and Nantes University, France. He has been a recipient of many awards and grants. Selected as a Sectional Editor (Radiation Oncology, Biomarkers) for Journal of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, reviewer for British Journal of Radiology and CARO annual scientific meeting. His research experience includes various programs, contributions and participation in different countries for diverse fields of study.

Radiation Oncology, Biomarkers, Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy

Dr Jaleel Kareem Ahmed has been working in the Polymer Department ,Materials Engineering Collage, Babylon University, Iraq and has made many significant contributions in the filed of science and medicine. He been been one of the renowned speakers at esteemed conferences.

Genetic Engineering

Dr. Boothman grew up in Detroit, Michigan, and earned his B.S. at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. He did his graduate work in microbiology and immunology at the University of Miami Medical School, where he received his Ph.D. under the mentorship of Dr. Sheldon Greer. His research focused on the biochemistry and pharmacology of anticancer drugs, specifically 5-fluoro-deoxycytidine derivatives. He did postdoctoral research at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute of Harvard Medical School with Dr. Arthur B. Pardee. There, he investigated changes in several aspects of cancer cells before and after cell stress: cell cycle checkpoint regulation, molecular biology, and gene expression. His studies on β-lapachone as a radiosensitizer and DNA repair inhibitor began at this time. Dr. Boothman also discovered and cloned the first proteins and transcripts induced by ionizing radiation (IR).

Hematology-Oncology

David I Smith received his B.S. In Mathematics and Molecular Biology from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He then went on to get his Ph.D. In Biochemistry, also at the UW Madison in 1978. His first faculty position was at Wayne State University in Detroit. For the past 22 years he has been a Professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the Mayo Clinic. He is also the Chairman of the Technology Assessment Group for the Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine. His laboratory studies genome inability and the common fragile sites and their role in cancer development. His laboratory also studies the different ways the human papillomavirus is involved in the development of different cancers. The tools that Dr. Smith’s laboratory uses to address these questions is massively parallel next generation sequencing.

Current Projects :- Oropharyngeal cancer, Long noncoding RNA.

Prof. Tao obtained his PhD from the University of Hong Kong and did his postdoc training in Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He was appointed as Assistant Professor in Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1999, and later Associate Professor and Full Professor (2008) in the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He leads the Cancer Epigenetics Laboratory in the State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Prof Tao’s group has established the CpG methylomes of common tumors in Hong Kong including nasopharyngeal, esophageal, lung, digestive cancers and lymphomas; identified multiple novel TSGs (e.g. PCDH10, RASAL1, ZNF382, BLU, ZNF545, BCL6B, JPH3, DLEC1, etc) and characterized their molecular functions in cell signaling and tumorigenesis; and also developed promising epigenetic biomarkers and therapeutics. He has published 160 papers (total citations: 8500; h-index: 55) on cancer epigenetics and cancer biology in international journals, including PNAS, Lancet, JCO, Cancer Res, Blood, Gut, Hepatology and Theranostics, and 4 book chapters on epigenetics. He is an external reviewer for multiple scientific journals and an academic Editor for several journals. He also serves as a grant review panel member for China Natural Science Foundation (NSFC) and a reviewer for several other agents including AICR, Wellcome Trust, MRC/UK, Dutch Cancer Society, Singapore National Medical Research Council, and China Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST). He has been a vice-President for the international Epigenetics Society (http://epigeneticssocietyint.com/) since 2008.

Cancer epigenomics: identification of novel tumor suppressor genes (TSG) and their functional/mechanistic characterization in tumorigenesis ; Identification of epigenetic modifier genes involved in aberrant CpG methylation and chromatin-remodeling in tumors; Development of epigenetic biomarkers and epigenetic therapeutics; Epigenetic regulation of EBV genes and EBV-modulated aberrant epigenetic programming in EBV pathogenesis

Dr. Reema Al Hayek is a Consultant Pediatric Oncology-Hematology and Stem Cell Transplant. She obtained her bachelor degree in Medicine, (June 1983), she was board certified in Pediatrics (Dec. 1987), Assistant Professor in General Pediatrics (Feb. 1988), Board Certified (DISC) in Pediatric Oncology Sub-Specialty at University of Rene Descartes Paris (June 1991). She obtained as well many other certifications as for the Diploma of Oncologic Pharmacology from the University of Lariboisier, St. Louis, Paris (June 1991), the Diploma in Experimental Hematology (Transfection of Genes and Trans-genesis, and Genotherapy) from the University of Rene Descartes, Paris (June 1991).

Hodgkin Disease and its specificity, leukemia and its treatment response and genetic characteristic