Team

Dr. Khalid Shah is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School. He is the Vice Chairman of Research and also the Director of the Center Stem Cell Therapeutics and Imaging at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a Principal Faculty at Harvard Stem Cell Institute in Boston.

In recent years, Dr. Shah and his team have pioneered major developments in the cancer research field, successfully developing experimental models to understand basic cancer biology and therapeutic stem cells for cancer, particularly brain tumors. These studies have been published in a number of very high impact journals like Nature Neuroscience, PNAS, Nature Reviews Cancer, JNCI, Stem Cells and Lancet Oncology, validating the use of therapeutic stem cells alone and in combination with clinically approved drugs for cancer therapy.

Recently, Dr. Shah's work has caught the attention in the public domain and as such it has been highlighted in the media world-wide including features on BBC and CNN. The potential of developing novel cancer therapies by him and his team has been recognized by many cancer alliances and associations. Based on this, he has received the young investigator award from Alliance for cancer gene therapy (ACGT), Research fellow award from American Cancer Society (ACS), Distinguished research award from Academy of Radiology and Innovation awards from James McDonnell Foundation, American Brain Tumor Association (ABTA) and Goldhirsh foundation.

Dr. Shah has participated in the training of numerous undergraduate, graduate students and residents at MGH and the potential of his mentoring has been recognized by Harvard Medical School and awarded him the Harvard Young Mentor Award. Amongst Dr. Shah's recently published works are two books featuring current groundbreaking insights into stem cell therapies for cancer, Stem Cell Therapeutics for Cancer (Wiley-Blackwell 2013), and Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Cancer Therapy (Elsevier 2014) which are available on Amazon and academic libraries world-wide.

Dr. Shah holds current positions on numerous councils, advisory and editorial boards in the fields of stem cell therapy and oncology. In an effort of to translate the exciting therapies developed in his laboratory into clinics, he has recently founded biotech company, AMASA Technologies Inc. whose main objective is the clinical translation of therapeutic stem cells in cancer patients.