Clinical Interests

Leukemia

Research Interests

Structure and function analysis of tyrosine kinases involved in the pathogenesis of leukemia; molecular basis of “oncogene addiction”;  modeling of human leukemia in mice using ES and patient derived iPS Cells

PhD: Jawaharlal Nehru University, India.

Post-doc: Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at MIT (2001-2003).

Instructor: Children’s Hospital of Boston and Harvard Medical School. (2006-2009).

Azam M, Powers JT, Einhorn W, Huang WS, Shakespeare WC, Zhu X, Dalgarno D, Clackson T, Sawyer TK, Daley GQ. AP24163 inhibits the gatekeeper mutant of BCR-ABL and suppresses in vitro resistance. Chem Biol Drug Des. 2010 Feb;75(2):223-7.  

Zhang J, Adrián FJ, Jahnke W, Cowan-Jacob SW, Li AG, Iacob RE, Sim T, Powers J, Dierks C, Sun F, Guo GR, Ding Q, Okram B, Choi Y, Wojciechowski A, Deng X, Liu G, Fendrich G, Strauss A, Vajpai N, Grzesiek S, Tuntland T, Liu Y, Bursulaya B, Azam M, Manley PW, Engen JR, Daley GQ, Warmuth M, Gray NS. Targeting Bcr-Abl by combining allosteric with ATP-binding-site inhibitors. Nature. 2010 Jan 28;463(7280):501-6.

Nardi V, Azam M, Neverias O, Daley GQ. Immune-Mediated Protection AgainstBCR/ABL-Induced Leukemia: A Common Pathway Shared between IRF8/ICSBP and IFN alpha and beta. Blood. 2009.

Viswanathan SR, Powers JT, Einhorn W, Hoshida Y, Ng TL, Toffanin S, O'Sullivan M, Lu J, Phillips LA, Lockhart VL, Shah SP, Tanwar PS, Mermel CH, Beroukhim R, Azam M, Teixeira J, Meyerson M, Hughes TP, Llovet JM, Radich J, Mullighan CG, Golub TR, Sorensen PH, Daley GQ. Lin28 promotes transformation and is associated with advanced human malignancies. Nature Genetics. 2009 Jul;41(7):843-8.

Azam M, Seeliger M, Gray S, Kuriyan J, Daley GQ. Activation of tyrosine kinases by the mutation of gatekeeper residue. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2008 Oct;15(10):1109-18.

Raz T, Nardi V, Azam M, Cortes J, Daley GQ. Farnesyl transferase inhibitor resistance probed by target mutagenesis. Blood. 2007 Sep 15;110(6):2102-9.

Azam M, Nardi V, Shakespeare WC, Metcalf CA 3rd, Bohacek RS, Wang Y, Sundaramoorthi R, Sliz P, Veach DR, Bornmann WG, Clarkson B, Dalgarno DC, Sawyer TK, Daley GQ. Activity of dual SRC-ABL inhibitors highlights role of BCR/ABL kinase dynamics in drug resistance. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 Jun 13;103(24):9244-9.  

Azam M, and Daley GQ. Anticipating Clinical Resistance to Target-directed Agents: BCR-ABL an example. Molecular Diagnosis and Therapy. 2006;10(2):67-76.