Background & Interests
Biology
Cancer
Genomics
I Want a Hot Body, but I also Want Tacos
Never a Dull Moment
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 screeningusing pooled perturbations
Biology
Cancer
Immunology
Microbiology
R&D
Technology
Alex K. Shalek
Ben Mead
Conner Kummerlowe
Ivy Liu
Manny Guzman
Sarah Ingabire
Sergio Triana
Walaa Kattan
Compressed phenotypic screens for complex multicellular models and high-content assays
Biology
Cancer
Chemistry
Computational Methods
Genomics
R&D
Statistics
Technology
Alex K. Shalek
Ben Mead
Conner Kummerlowe
Ivy Liu
Peter Winter
Thomas Nok Hin Cheng
Walaa Kattan