Welcome to the Asiri Lab!
In the Asiri lab, our overarching mission is to improve the care of patients with blood disorders. To acheive this goal, we are recruiting highly motivated and passionate personnel to our group. We're committed to fostering a space where every person has the chance to succeed and bring their values to the work we do together. We're eager to share our research with the broader community, mentor trainees at all career stages, and forge meaningful collaborations that extend the reach and impact of our discoveries.
I earned my undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT with a minor in Biomedical Engineering. During this time, I had the privilege of working under the mentorship of Dr. Robert Langer and Dr. Rajiv Saigal. We explored how conductive polymers could mitigate neuronal damage following excitotoxic injuries. These experiences provided foundational training in biomedical research and quantitative methods, and motivated me to continue research during my medical training.
I therefore joined the lab of Dr. Mark Saltzman's while completing my medical education at Yale School of Medicine. We designed both systemic and topical nanoparticle platforms for preventative and therapeutic applications in cancer treatment. Following medical school, I moved to Stanford to complete my residency, fellowship, and Ph.D. in Hematology and Cancer Biology. Under the guidance of Dr. Ravi Majeti, I built a framework for studying healthy and malignant hematopoiesis using single cell multi-omics, and identified new multipotent progenitor cell populations in normal hematopoiesis and high-risk leukemia stem cells in acute myeloid leukemia.
As the principal investigator of the Asiri Lab, we are further developing these methods by integrating single-cell technologies, computational biology, machine learning, and functional hematology to investigate the complexities of both normal and malignant blood cell development.