Studies on Stem Cells Research and Therapy

Research Interest: Focuses on Aging-Related Diseases and Stem Cell Transplantation. 

Research Interest: Neurology

Research Interest: Bone Marrow Transplantation, Immunology, Autoimmunity, Thymus and Bone Marrow Derived-Mesenchymal Stem Cells. His Cutting-Edge Technology for Bone Marrow Cell Harvesting and Intra-Bone Marrow-Bone Marrow Transplantation has Led to Significant Research Into Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation. 

Dr. Monther AlAlwan is a scientist at the Stem Cell and Tissue Re-engineering Program (SCTRP), King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, as well as an Associate professor at Alfaisal University, Riyadh Saudi Arabia. He holds M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Immunology from Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada). Dr. AlAlwan conducted a 3-years postdoctoral fellowship studying signaling in immune cells at the University of Manitoba, Canada. During his graduate studies and postdoctoral fellowship, Dr. AlAlwan made substantial contribution in the immunology field, particularly his groundbreaking discovery that highlighted the significance of the dendritic cells in the immunological synapse. After joining the SCTRP in 2007, he shifted gear to study cancer, where he identified novel mechanisms that regulate cancer metastasis and chemoresistance. Currently, he is actively involved in dissecting the molecular pathways that regulate the function of cancer stem cells and how this related to chemoresistance and metastasis. Dr. AlAlwan is an author in 20 peer-reviewed publications, has delivered several invited lectures and is a regular reviewer for various international journals.   

Research Interest: Neuronal and Astrocyte Cell Lines, Primary and Mixed Brain Cell Cultures, Mammalian Cell Cultures.

Research Interest: Fate Decisions of Embryonic Stem Cell, Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell (ESC/Ips): Pluripotency and Direct Lineage Specification to the Three Germ Layers.

Research Interest: Cancer Biology, Cell Biology, Breast Cancer, Cancer Prevention, Anti-Cancer Drug Development, Cancer Metastasis, Transcription Factors, Kinase, Glucose Metabolism.

Research Interest: Genes Involved in Cell Cycle Regulation, Differentiation, Apoptosis and Senescence Such as the Retinoblastoma (RB) Family. He has Evaluated the Role of Retinoblastoma Genes in the Regulation of Cell Proliferation, Differentiation and Apoptosis in
Cancer and Normal Stem Cells. In Detail, his Group has Analyzed the Biology of Neural Stem Cells and Mesenchymal Stem Cells. These Studies Prompted the Attention Also on Chromatin
Remodeling Factors that Interact with RB Family Members and Play a Key Role in the Life of StemCells.

Research Interest: Cancer Stem Cell, such as Surface Marker, Biology, and Mechanism.

Research Interest: Clinical Nephrology, Metabolic Syndrome, Hypertension, Inflammation

Research Interest: Stem Cell Biology; Breast Cancer Dormancy; Neural Regulation of Hematopoiesis, the Immunology and Clinical Application of Adult Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells. 

Research Interest: Cancer Metabolism, Metabolomics, NMR and MRI Methods, Systems Biology.

Research Interest: Primarily in the Area of Behavioral Neuroscience.

Research Interest: Embryonic Stem Cells, Pluripotency, Induced Pluripotent Cells, Differentiation, Endoderm, Beta Cell, Diabetes, Obesity, Adipose Tissue, Brown Fat, Endothelium, Oxidative Stress, Nitric Oxide, Peroxynitrite, Superoxide, Nanosensors.

Research Interest: Cancer Stem Cell, Anticancer Agent, Metastasis, Cell Survival, Cell Migration, Apoptosis, Molecular and Cell Signaling, Transcription Factors, Xenograft Model, Stem Cell Based Therapy.