Muhammed Murtaza, MBBS, PhD
Associate Professor
- Division of Surgical Oncology
- Director of the Center for Human Genomics and Precision Medicine
Education
- Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, Aga Khan University Medical College
- PhD, Medical Science, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge
Research Interests
Dr. Murtaza was awarded a three-year, $1 million Cooperative Award (UH3) from the National Cancer Institute. Read more here.
Dr. Murtaza and Dr. Zafar were awarded a $50,000 Translational Basic and Clinical Research Pilot Award from the UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research and the UW Carbone Cancer Center. Read more here.
Recent Publications
Comparative analysis of cell-free DNA fragmentation patterns in canines with sarcoma and tumor-free canines and humans.
Favaro PF, Wang Y, McDonald BR, Wang TX, Jadhav S, Cheng HH, Marcinak CT, Pan X, Murtaza M
Cancer Res Commun 2026 Jan 16;
[PubMed ID: 41544207]Fragment end motif analysis to distinguish pathogens from contaminants in enriched plasma microbial DNA.
Zhang H, Dominguez EG, Junak M, Murtaza M, Pepperell CS, Kisat MT
medRxiv 2025 Nov 07;
[PubMed ID: 41282688]Detection of PIK3CA Mutations in Anal Dysplasia.
Johnson HR, Dietmann EC, Praska CE, Dennison KL, McGregor SM, Suter W, Leverson G, Murtaza M, Carchman EH
J Surg Res 2025 Nov; 315: 106-112
[PubMed ID: 41033178]Efficient nonviral integration of large transgenes into human T cells using Cas9-CLIPT.
Tommasi A, Cappabianca D, Bugel M, Gimse K, Lund-Peterson K, Shrestha H, Arutyunov D, Williams JA, Police SR, Indurthi V, Davis SZ, Murtaza M, Capitini CM, Saha K
Mol Ther Methods Clin Dev 2025 Mar 13; 33(1): 101437
[PubMed ID: 40123742]Virus-free CRISPR knockin of a chimeric antigen receptor into KLRC1 generates potent GD2-specific natural killer cells.
Shankar K, Zingler-Hoslet I, Tabima DM, Zima S, Shi L, Gimse K, Forsberg MH, Katta V, Davis SZ, Maldonado D, Russell BE, Murtaza M, Tsai SQ, Ayuso JM, Capitini CM, Saha K
Mol Ther 2025 Mar 05; 33(3): 1014-1030
[PubMed ID: 39815622]