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Ali Shilatifard

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Director of the Simpson Querrey Center for Epigenetics
Robert Francis Furchgott Professor
Chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Professor of Pediatrics

About

Areas of Focus

  • Mixed-lineage leukemia (MLL)
  • Childhood leukemia
  • Epigenetics in cancer
  • Leukemia biology
  • Transcriptional regulation of gene expression

Work/Research

  • Developing epigenetic target-specific drugs for childhood leukemia and other forms of cancer
  • Targeting MLL4 and UTX COMPASS mutations in cancer
  • Clinical therapy of leukemia
  • Understanding the role of transcriptional elongation control in cancer and aging

Career

Dr. Shilatifard is an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAA&S). He currently serves on the Scientific Advisory Boards of the Searle Scholars Program and the Max Planck Society, and as Chair of the BBVA Prize in Medicine committee. Dr. Shilatifard received a NCI Outstanding Investigator Award in 2015.