UCSF
San Francisco, United States
Zulekha A. Qadeer, PhD is a postdoctoral fellow at University of California, San Francisco in the lab of Dr. William A. Weiss, MD, PhD, and a Damon Runyon-Sohn Pediatric Cancer fellow as well as Alex Lemonade Stand Foundation Young Investigator. She received a Bachelor’s in Science from Tufts University with a major in Biology. Dr. Qadeer went on to complete her PhD in Biomedical Sciences at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai investigating epigenetic dysregulation in neuroblastoma. Her postdoctoral studies focus on utilizing innovative humanized stem cell-based models to identify drivers of medulloblastoma progression. Her goal is to understand the mechanism(s) of how these genetic drivers alter the chromatin and transcriptional landscape of these tumors and to integrate these findings to identify new targets to overcome resistance and recurrence.