Walaa Kattan

Walaa Kattan

Former Postdoctoral Fellow

Walaa Kattan

Background & Interests

Biology Biology
Cancer Cancer
Genomics Genomics
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Travel Travel

Biography

Walaa is a postdoctoral associate interested in applying organoid models and single-cell technologies to understand cancer metastasis and resistance to immunotherapies. Originally from Saudi Arabia, Walaa obtained a Bachelors degree in Life Sciences at Alfaisal University after which she completed a Cancer Biology-Clinical & Translational Oncology PhD degree from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences in Houston, TX focusing on drug/target discovery in pancreatic cancer. Walaa enjoys playing the flute, ziplining, basketball and everything ice-cream.

Publications

Scalable, compressed phenotypic screening using pooled perturbations
  • Liu et al.,
  • Nature Biotechnology,
  • 2024
Biology Biology
Cancer Cancer
Immunology Immunology
Microbiology Microbiology
R&D R&D
Technology Technology
Alex K. Shalek Alex K. Shalek
Ben Mead Ben Mead
Conner Kummerlowe Conner Kummerlowe
Ivy Liu Ivy Liu
Manny Guzman Manny Guzman
Sarah Ingabire Sarah Ingabire
Sergio Triana Sergio Triana
Walaa Kattan Walaa Kattan
Compressed phenotypic screens for complex multicellular models and high-content assays
  • Mead et al.,
  • bioRxiv,
  • 2023
Biology Biology
Cancer Cancer
Chemistry Chemistry
Computational Methods Computational Methods
Genomics Genomics
R&D R&D
Statistics Statistics
Technology Technology
Alex K. Shalek Alex K. Shalek
Ben Mead Ben Mead
Conner Kummerlowe Conner Kummerlowe
Ivy Liu Ivy Liu
Peter Winter Peter Winter
Thomas Nok Hin Cheng Thomas Nok Hin Cheng
Walaa Kattan Walaa Kattan