Dr. Walid Khaled

Biography

Walid Khaled is a Group Leader at the Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge, where he focuses on the early steps of epithelial tumor initiation and their implications for cancer detection and prevention. He completed his PhD in 2007 at the Department of Pathology, Cambridge, under the guidance of Professor Christine Watson, studying mammary gland development. In 2008, he was elected Junior Research Fellow at King’s College, Cambridge, and by 2009 he had joined the Sanger Institute as a postdoctoral fellow, researching BCL11A in Triple Negative Breast Cancer with Dr. Pentao Liu. Khaled returned to Cambridge in 2013 as a Lecturer in the Department of Pharmacology and received the CRUK Career Establishment Award in 2014, enabling him to advance his research on breast epithelial tumor biology. His team utilizes single-cell RNA sequencing to identify cellular changes in normal and preneoplastic mammary glands. Additionally, he co-leads the Human Breast Cell Atlas initiative and studies cancer resistance mechanisms in Naked Mole-Rats, while also being a faculty member of the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute and the Breast Cancer Programme at the Cambridge Cancer Centre. Khaled co-leads the Ageing Cluster as part of UK Research and Innovation's National Mouse Genetics Network and the Reproduction Development Lifelong Health research theme in the School of Biological Sciences.

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