Ali Shilatifard: Faculty Experts
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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
- The role of epigenetics in cancer
- Leukemia biology
Work/Research
- The development of promising, epigenetic target-specific drugs for childhood leukemia and other forms of cancer
- UTX mutations in human cancer
- Clinical therapy of leukemia
Career
Shilatifard delivered a TEDx talk at UChicago in May 2019, discussing leaps he and colleagues have made in understanding childhood leukemia.