Omar Abdel-Wahab is an Associate Member in Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program (HOPP) and an Associate Attending Physician on the Leukemia Service in the Department of Medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Dr. Abdel-Wahab’s research focuses on the role of genomic alterations in the pathogenesis of hematopoietic malignancies.
Omar Abdel-Wahab, MD
Associate Member, Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program; Associate Attending, Leukemia Service; Director, MSK Center for Hematologic Malignancies
Research Focus
Physician-scientist Omar Abdel-Wahab studies the functional genomics of hematopoietic malignancies.Education
MD, Duke University School of MedicineLab Members
Research Assistant
Research Technician
Instructor (Pathology)
Research Associate
Assistant Member, Myeloma Service
Senior Computational Biologist
Administrative Assistant
Senior Research Scientist
Publications
- Yoshimi A, Lin KT, Wiseman DH, Rahman MA, Pastore A, Wang B, Lee SC, Micol JB, Zhang XJ, de Botton S, Penard-Lacronique V, Stein EM, Cho H, Miles RE, Inoue D, Albrecht TR, Somervaille TCP, Batta K, Amaral F, Simeoni F, Wilks DP, Cargo C, Intlekofer AM, Levine RL, Dvinge H, Bradley RK, Wagner EJ, Krainer AR, Abdel-Wahab O. Coordinated alterations in RNA splicing and epigenetic regulation drive leukaemogenesis. Nature. 2019 Oct;574(7777):273-277. doi: 10.1038/s41586-019-1618-0. Epub 2019 Oct 2. PMCID: PMC6858560.
- Inoue D, Chew GL, Liu B, Michel BC, Pangallo J, D’Avino AR, Hitchman T, North K, Lee SC, Bitner L, Block A, Moore AR, Yoshimi A, Escobar-Hoyos L, Cho H, Penson A, Lu SX, Taylor J, Chen Y, Kadoch C, Abdel-Wahab O (co-corresponding), Bradley RK (co-corresponding). Spliceosomal disruption of the non-canonical BAF complex in cancer. Nature. 2019 Oct;574(7778):432-436. doi: 10.1038/s41586-019-1646-9. Epub 2019 Oct 9. PMCID: PMC6858563.
Selected Achievements
- Seldin-Smith Award for Pioneering Research, American Society of Clinical Investigation
- Pershing Square Sohn Prize for Young Investigators in Cancer Research
- Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Clinical Scholar Award
- Joanne Levy Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement, American Society of Hematology
- V Scholar Award, V Foundation
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- Junior Faculty Scholar Award, American Society of Hematology (ASH)
- Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award
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