Department of Neurological Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Hinda Najem, MD, MS – Currently a postdoctoral fellow at Dr. Amy Heimberger’s Lab of immunology and immunotherapy of brain cancers at Northwestern University. She obtained her Medical doctor degree in July 2020 from St. Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon. Her medical thesis intitled: Network Metanalysis of the treatments of Atrial Fibrillation after Cardiac Surgery. While working on her clinical medical practice, she worked for 3 years in pre-clinical research studying the effect of chemotherapy, cisplatin, on renal fibrosis in a murine animal model, when she obtained her master’s degree in Biological and Medical Science in December 2018, at the Physiology and Physiopathology Laboratory, St. Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon. Joined Dr. Heimberger’s lab in November 2020 at MD Anderson Cancer Center and transferred to Northwestern University in May 2021, she is working on brain tumors’ immune profiling, immune modulation, and molecular pathways responsible for immunosuppression in the tumor microenvironment, through multiplex staining, animal model experiments and clinical trials. She recently submitted her work on the immune profiling of melanoma leptomeningeal disease.
