M. Waleed GaberÂ
Associate Professor
Department of Bioengineering
Rice University
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Waleed Gaber’s work aims at optimizing brain tumor therapy through designing targeted drugs that can cross the blood brain barrier and through the study of the combined side effect of tumor microenvironment and radiation therapy on brain vasculature and parenchyma. Also works on developing a combined whole body radiation and injury animal model to be used in the development of a treatment strategy that will promote survival and wound healing in individuals exposed to total body irradiation who suffer from traumatic mechanical injury.
Research Interest
Pediatrics, Haematology, Oncology
Publications
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Tien TT, David AR, Waleed G (2017) Imaging radiation-induced gastrointestinal, bone marrow injury and recovery kinetics using 18F-FDG PET. Plos One.