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
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 Fellow
Research Technician
Research Associate
Research Fellow
Senior Computational Biologist
Administrative Assistant
Instructor (Dept. of Medicine)
Senior Research Scientist
Publications
- Fong JY, Pignata L, Goy PA, Kawabata KC, Lee SC, Koh CM, Musiani D, Massignani E, Kotini AG, Penson A, Wun CM, Shen Y, Schwarz M, Low DH, Rialdi A, Ki M, Wollmann H, Mzoughi S, Gay F, Thompson C, Hart T, Barbash O, Luciani GM, Szewczyk MM, Wouters BJ, Delwel R, Papapetrou EP, Barsyte-Lovejoy D, Arrowsmith CH, Minden MD, Jin J, Melnick A, Bonaldi T, Abdel-Wahab O (co-corresponding), Guccione E(co-corresponding). Therapeutic Targeting of RNA Splicing Catalysis through Inhibition of Protein Arginine Methylation. Cancer Cell. 2019 Aug 12;36(2):194-209.e9. doi: 10.1016/j.ccell.2019.07.003.
- Taylor J, Sendino M, Gorelick AN, Pastore A, Chang MT, Penson AV, Gavrila EI, Stewart C, Melnik EM, Herrejon Chavez F, Bitner L, Yoshimi A, Lee SC, Inoue D, Liu B, Zhang XJ, Mato AR, Dogan A, Kharas MG, Chen Y, Wang D, Soni RK, Hendrickson RC, Prieto G, Rodriguez JA, Taylor BS, Abdel-Wahab O. Altered nuclear export signal recognition as a driver of oncogenesis. Cancer Discov. 2019 Jul 8. pii: CD-19-0298. doi: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-19-0298. [Epub ahead of print]
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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