Fatih Uckun - A Respected Physician And Researcher

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A research professor of pediatrics, Dr. Fatih Uckun, along with his colleagues at the University of Southern California (USC) Keck School of Medicine and Saban Research Institute at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), was awarded a $2.5-million grant in September 2010 from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and a second $1.7-million NCI grant in April 2011. The grants were provided to develop anticancer drugs to fight lymphoblastic leukemia. Through nanotechnology, in which science and engineering are performed on a molecular level, Dr. FatihUckun helps research and develop cancer-specific nanomedicines that could overcome chemotherapy resistance in this most common form of childhood leukemia.

Dr. Fatih Uckun serves as a member of the NCI Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer. A senior member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), a society of physician-scientists, Dr. Uckun leads the Developmental Therapeutic Program at the Children’s Center for Cancer & Blood Diseases and the Institute for Pediatric Clinical Research at CHLA. Dr. FatihUckun maintains full membership in the Developmental ...
... Therapeutic Program at the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and belongs to the program’s working group. A leading cancer research center, the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center employs more than 200 physicians and scientists to research cancer causes and cures.

Through a career focused on cancer research, Dr. Fatih Uckun has provided expertise for numerous government projects. From 1999 to 2002, he served as principal investigator for a grant-funded Virus Neutralizer Research Project for the U.S. Department of Defense. Further, he participates with the NCI Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer’s working groups on Biotargeting, Preclinical Animal Models, and Communications and Integration. He also participates in the peer review of grant applications on a Special Emphasis Panel of NCI. At the USC Keck School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles since 2009, Dr. Fatih Uckun teaches, conducts research, supervises research staff, and mentors young faculty and fellows.

Dr.Fatih Uckun earned his M.D. and Ph.D. at the University of Heidelberg. He accepted a postdoctoral fellowship in immunology, a residency in pediatrics, and fellowships in pediatric hematology, oncology, and bone marrow transplantation at the University of Minnesota, where Dr. Fatih Uckun also began to teach. After spending 11 years as the director of the Parker Hughes Institute, he accepted research and teaching positions at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Dr. Fatih Uckun heads a nanomedicine research and development program funded by the National Institutes of Health at the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. He also holds an appointment as Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics in the Department of Pediatric Oncology, Selçuklu School of Medicine, Selçuk University, in Konya, Turkey.

Dr. Fatih Uckun's areas of research interest consist of the molecular epidemiology of cancer, chemoprevention of cancer, biopharmaceuticals, targeted nanoparticles, signal transduction pathways, and innate immunity. He has coauthored and published in professional journals, written more than 470 scientific papers, and produced chapters for a number of books, including Reviews in Cancer Biology and Therapeutics (2007).

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