Dr. Omar Kabbarah has an educational background that encompasses a variety of areas, including CNS development for an MS degree at the NIH, establishment and characterization of mouse models of cancer as part of a PhD from Washington University School of Medicine, and melanoma genomics and disease biomarker discovery as a post-doc at the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Institute, where he discovered the first-in-class Golgi oncoprotein GOLPH3. Currently, Dr. Kabbarah is working in Genentech as a Biomarker Team Lead on three clinical-stage Oncology programs, including two Antibody-Drug Conjugates (ADCs), and a Biomarker Disease Strategy focused on CRC and Gastric Cancer. Prior to Genentech, he was a Principal Scientist at AstraZeneca Boston, where he established and led an Oncology Target Discovery group, and also actively contributed to a Breast Cancer Strategy as a member of a global disease area team. Dr. Kabbarah also led an Oncology target identification and validation group at AVEO Pharmaceuticals, with special emphasis on the FGFR pathways. Dr. Omar Kabbarah has an educational background that encompasses a variety of areas, including CNS development for an MS degree at the NIH, establishment and characterization of mouse models of cancer as part of a PhD from Washington University School of Medicine, and melanoma genomics and disease biomarker discovery as a post-doc at the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Institute, where he discovered the first-in-class Golgi oncoprotein GOLPH3. Currently, Dr. Kabbarah is working in Genentech as a Biomarker Team Lead on three clinical-stage Oncology programs, including two Antibody-Drug Conjugates (ADCs), and a Biomarker Disease Strategy focused on CRC and Gastric Cancer. Prior to Genentech, he was a Principal Scientist at AstraZeneca Boston, where he established and led an Oncology Target Discovery group, and also actively contributed to a Breast Cancer Strategy as a member of a global disease area team. Dr. Kabbarah also led an Oncology target identification and validation group at AVEO Pharmaceuticals, with special emphasis on the FGFR pathways.

Biomarker, genomics