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Husam Babikir, PhD
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Husam Babikir, PhD

Alumnus · Former Postdoctoral Scholar

Husam Babikir was a postdoctoral scholar in the Diaz Lab. He studied the epigenetic regulation of glial identity and immune composition in IDH-mutant glioma.

Diaz Lab Publications

  • Lad et al. Glioblastoma induces the recruitment and differentiation of dendritic-like "hybrid" neutrophils from skull bone marrow. Cancer Cell. 2024.
  • Wang et al. A single-cell atlas of glioblastoma evolution under therapy reveals cell-intrinsic and cell-extrinsic therapeutic targets. Nat Cancer. 2022.
  • Babikir et al. ATRX regulates glial identity and the tumor microenvironment in IDH-mutant glioma. Genome Biol. 2021.
  • Wang et al. The evolution of alternative splicing in glioblastoma under therapy. Genome Biol. 2021.
  • Wang et al. Ensemble learning for classifying single-cell data and projection across reference atlases. Bioinformatics. 2020.
  • Wang et al. The Phenotypes of Proliferating Glioblastoma Cells Reside on a Single Axis of Variation. Cancer Discov. 2019.
Education

2015: PhD, Neuroscience, Freie University, Berlin, Germany
2010: MSc, Biology, Uppsala University, Sweden

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