Azra Raza is the Chan Soon-Shiong Professor of Medicine and Director of the Myelodysplastic Syndrome Center at Columbia University.
19 Facts About Azra Raza
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Azra Raza has previously held positions at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Cincinnati, Rush University, and the University of Massachusetts.
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Azra Raza is the author of The First Cell: And the Human Cost of Pursuing Cancer to the Last.
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Azra Raza was born in Karachi, Pakistan, and became interested in biology and evolution as a child.
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Azra Raza completed her undergraduate medical education at Dow Medical College in Pakistan.
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Azra Raza moved to Buffalo, New York, for a residency at Roswell Park, where she researched the biology and pathology of myeloid malignancies.
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At the age of 39, Azra Raza was named a professor at Rush University in Chicago.
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Azra Raza was later named the Director of Hematology and Oncology at the University of Massachusetts, and the Gladys Smith Martin Chair in Oncology later still.
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Azra Raza was the Director of the Myelodysplastic Syndrome Center at St Vincent's Comprehensive Cancer Center.
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Azra Raza later became Professor of Medicine and Director of the MDS Center at Columbia University.
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Azra Raza's research has defined the cell cycle kinetics of myeloid leukemia cells in vivo in myelodysplastic syndrome and acute myeloid leukemia by studying cellular proliferation in patients.
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Azra Raza's work led later researchers to believe that low blood counts were not a result of bone marrow failure, but instead a hyper-proliferative state in the marrow tissue, leading to hematopoietic cell apoptosis.
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Azra Raza has developed a tissue bank of cancer patients that contains several thousand specimens of patient tissue for her research; she uses the samples to identify treatment programs through genetic testing.
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Azra Raza has used genomic technology to further research the pathology of myelodysplastic syndrome, as well as RNA sequence and global methylation studies, and was a part of President Barack Obama's "cancer moonshot" program that reported to Vice-president Joe Biden.
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Azra Raza's work has appeared in The New England Journal of Medicine, Nature, Blood, Cancer, Cancer Research, British Journal of Haematology, Leukemia, and Leukemia Research.
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Azra Raza has contributed to newspapers as an author, and has provided talks to organizations like TEDx New York.
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Azra Raza was married to the late Harvey David Preisler, Director of Rush Cancer Institute.
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Azra Raza was a Hope Funds for Cancer Research honoree in 2012.
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Azra Raza received the Distinguished Services in the Field of Research and Clinical Medicine award from Dow Medical College in 2014.