Samir Parekh, MD
Samir Parekh, MD
Professor of Medicine
Director of Translation Research in Myeloma
Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, Division of Hematology/Medical Oncology
Since 2008
Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma is the most common blood cancer worldwide. Mantel Cell Lymphoma (MCL) represents about 6 percent of all non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Despite advances in chemotherapy and immunotherapy, most Mante Cell Lymphoma (MCL) patients relapse and die of their disease. The Chemotherapy+ FOundation is supporting Dr. Parekh’s work on this stubborn killer. Dr. Parekh is studying the therapeutic development of moilecular inhibitors of a human protien that is encoded by the SOX11 gene. This gene is a highly specific marker for MCL and other hematological cancers.