About Dr. Farooq
Saad is currently a PGY3 resident in general surgery. He was born in Lahore, Pakistan and grew up in the New York metropolitan area. He attended college at Cornell University and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and Society. He subsequently attended medical school at the New York University School of Medicine, where he conducted translational research on pancreatic cancer immunology in the department of surgery. During medical school he additionally obtained a Master of Science in Translational Medical Research from Universität Heidelberg in Germany, where he completed a thesis on identification of novel biomarkers in gastrointestinal malignancies. He is interested in transplant surgery and surgical oncology.
Education
2019 - 2020
Universität Heidelberg
Master of Science in Translational Medical Research
Awards
2016
NIDDK Summer Research Fellowship
Research
- Pancreatic cancer immunology
NYU School of Medicine
- Novel biomarker identification in gastrointestinal malignancies
Universität Heidelberg
Publications
- Diskin B, Adam S, Cassini MF, Sanchez G, Liria M, Aykut B, Buttar C, Li E, Sundberg B, Salas R, Chen R, Wang J, Kim M, Farooq MS, Nguy S, Fedele C, Tang KH, Chen T, Wang W, Hundeyin M, Rossi JAK, Kurz E, Israr Ul Haq M, Karlen J, Kruger E et al.. PD-L1 engagement on T cells promotes self-tolerance and suppression of neighboring macrophages and effector T cells in cancer.. Nature Immunology. 2020, Apr; 21(4): 442 - 454. Cited in PubMed; PMID: 32152508.
- Torres-Hernandez A, Wang W, Nikiforov Y, Tajeda K, Torres L, Kalabin A, Adam S, Wu J, Lu L, Chen R, Lemmer A, Camargo J, Hundeyin M, Diskin B, Aykut B, Kurz E, Rossi JAK, Khan M, Liria M, Sanchez G, Wu N, Su W, Adams S, Israr Ul Haq M, Farooq MS et al.. Gamma-delta T Cells Promote Steatohepatitis by Orchestrating Innate and Adaptive Immune Programming.. Hepatology. 2020, Feb; 71(2): 477-494. Cited in PubMed; PMID: 31529720.
- Hundeyin M, Kurz E, Mishra A, Kochen Rossi JA, Liudahl SM, Leis KR, Mehrotra H, Kim M, Torres L, Ogunsankin A, Link J, Sears RC, Sivagnanam S, Goecks J, Islam KMS, Dolgalev I, Savadkar S, Wang W, Aykut B, Leinwand J, Diskin B, Adam S, Israr M, et al.. Innate alpha-beta T Cells Mediate Antitumor Immunity by Orchestrating Immunogenic Macrophage Programming.. Cancer Discovery. 2019, Sep; 9(9): 1288-1305. Cited in PubMed; PMID: 31266770.
- Daley D, Mani VR, Mohan N, Akkad N, Pandian GSDB, Savadkar S, Lee KB, Torres-Hernandez A, Aykut B, Diskin B, Wang W, Farooq MS, Mahmud AI, Werba G, Morales EJ, Lall S, Wadowski BJ, Rubin AG, Berman ME, Narayanan R, Hundeyin M, Miller G.. NLRP3 signaling drives macrophage-induced adaptive immune suppression in pancreatic carcinoma.. Journal of Experimental Medicine. 2017, Jun; 214(6): 1711-1724. Cited in PubMed; PMID: 28442553.
- Mani VR, Farooq MS, Utsav U, Rajabalan AS & Ahmed L.. Case Report of Ectopic Liver on Gallbladder Serosa with a Brief Review of the Literature.. Case Reports in Surgery. 2016, Oct; 2016(7273801): 3. Cited in PubMed; PMID: 27803835.