Mustafa Khasraw
Associate Professor
Medical Oncology
The University of Sydney
Australia
Biography
Dr Mustafa Khasraw is a medical oncologist at the Northern Cancer Institute and Royal North Shore Hospital. He is also a senior research fellow at the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre of The University of Sydney, Clinical Lead for the Cooperative Trials Group for Neuro-Oncology (COGNO), cancer research fellow at Deakin University with leading role in several clinical and translational laboratory programs. Until April 2015 he was the clinical lead of the Haematology and Oncology Clinical Trials at Andrew Love Cancer Centre in Geelong and practised as a Medical Oncologist at Geelong and Royal Melbourne Hospitals. He completed his medical oncology training at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney and he undertook a subsequent oncology fellowship training in the US at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre in New York. His fellowship was both in neuro-oncology and in breast cancer. He is a member of several research committees and the coordinating principal investigator for several multi centre clinical trials. He has been the lead author of numerous manuscripts and book chapters and he acts regularly as a reviewer for a number of scientific journals and grant review committees.
Research Interest
Clinical Trials to Improve Outcomes of Cancer Patients.
Publications
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Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in Gliomas.
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Dual Somatostatin Receptor/FDG PET/CT Imaging in Metastatic Neuroendocrine Tumours: proposal for a Novel Grading Scheme with Prognostic Significance.
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Combining PARP inhibitors with radiation therapy for the treatment of glioblastoma: Is PTEN predictive of response?
