Masood Alqahtani
University of Western Australia, Australia
Biography
Masood Alqahtani has his expertise in Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Clinical Laboratory. His role is to evaluate and monitor the graft survival during solid organ and bone marrow transplantation to provide renal failure or leukemic patients with better quality of life. The cancer incidence in some transplanted patients creates new pathway which is translational cancer research to improve healthcare. He has focused on colorectal cancer as it ranked the first cancer among Saudi male and second among female according to the latest cancer registry report. The goal that he set is to create surveillance program for familial cancer patients through genetic screening, family history and health awareness.