Ashiq Masood MD

Summary

• I am Director of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology and Co-Director, Rush Precision Oncology Program at Rush University Medical Cancer. I am board certified in medical oncology, hematology, and internal medicine.
  
  Previously, I was an Assistant Professor in the Division of Oncology at Washington University School of Medicine in Saint Louis and UMKC -KC/ Saint Luke's Cancer Institute, specializing is gastrointestinal cancers.
  
  
  I am trained in bioinformatics and computational biology . I have carried out Next Gen Sequencing analysis including Whole genome ,whole exome , RNA seq Analysis, proteomic analysis independently . Furthermore , I program using python, perl , R programming languages.
  
  My current research focus is to develop effective biomarker-driven therapies to our cancer patients. Furthermore, my other focus to study large genomic datasets to discover novel and clinically actionable alterations to help to develop newer effective treatments in our patients.
  
  During my clinical fellowship, I was a post-doctoral fellow in Scott Devine's Lab at the Institute for Genomic Sciences at the University of Maryland. I was involved in research in Devine’s lab, which led to the discovery that transposons (jumping genes) can initiate colorectal cancer.