BS, biology/chemistry, Kashmir University, Jammu & Kashmir, India
PG Diploma, environment and health, Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu, India
Masters, toxicology, Jamia Hamdard University, Delhi, India
PhD, toxicology - specialization in cancer prevention, Jamia Hamdard University, Delhi, India
Postdoctoral Fellow, cancer biology, International Agency for Research in Cancer, Lyon, France
Research Associate, cancer prevention, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Assistant Scientist/Research Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Laboratory research focus: Molecular pathology of prostate cancer, discovery of targeted-drugs and immunotherapies with clinical potential
Personal research focus: Developing novel ethnicity-based discriminatory biopsy and serum-biomarkers, race-based 2D and 3D-organoid models, race-based patient derived xenograft (PDX) models of cancer and transgenic genetically engineered mouse (GEM) models mimicking human cancer
Mohammad Saleem Bhat, PhD, joins Rush University as Vice-Chair of Research in the Department of Surgery from the University of Minnesota. Saleem comes with 25 years of research experience in the field of molecular oncology, cancer therapy and cancer disparity. He has earned his PhD degree in Toxicology and Cancer prevention, and obtained his post-doctoral research training from the International Agency for Cancer Research (World Health Organization), Lyon, France and the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He held staff and faculty positions at the University of Wisconsin (2005-2009), and University of Minnesota (2010-2020). Using cutting-edge molecular biology technologies such as gene-editing, alternative intelligence, genetic-engineered and patient-derived models, his group is engaged in developing (A) non-invasive biomarkers and (B) targeted chemo-immunotherapies for treating prostate cancer. He is actively engaged in developed programs focused on studying the genetic and molecular causes underlying the disparity in African American cancer patients.
Saleem has authored more than 65 original peer-reviewed articles in leading journals such as PNAS, Cell-reports, JBC, Oncogene, Cancer Research, etc. He is involved in teaching and has mentored more than 25 scientists, undergraduate scholars, and PhD scholars.
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