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.
Dr. Murtaza was awarded a 23-month, $25,000 Badger Challenge Scholar Grant. 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 Feb 01; 6(2): 310-319
[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]