Akil Merchant
Director, Spatial Molecular Profiling Shared Resource · Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Credentials: · · · ·
History
Present
- 2000–2003
Internal Medicine
- 1996–2000
Research
Targeting Hedgehog--a cancer stem cell pathway
Review · Clinical Cancer Research · 2010 · First of 2 authors · 395 citations
Molecular signatures of proliferation and quiescence in hematopoietic stem cells
PLoS Biology · 2004 · 286 citations
Hematopoietic fingerprints: an expression database of stem cells and their progeny
Cell stem cell · 2007 · 264 citations
15 papers
13 papers
10 papers
Jonathan Braun
8 papers
7 papers
7 papers · 1 as a resident
7 papers
7 papers
Grants
- 2022–2027
Spatially Resolved, Single Cell Biomarkers of B Cell Lymphoma
National Cancer Institute · R01
Contact PI · $3.2M · Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
- 2020–2026
Diversity and Determinants of the Immune-Inflammatory Response to SARS-CoV-2
National Cancer Institute · U54
PI · $5.7M · Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
- 2018–2023
Role of Hedgehog Signaling in JAK2V617F Associated Myelofibrosis
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute · R01
Contact PI · $2.1M · Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
- 2012–2017
The Role of Hedgehog/Gli in Normal Hematopoiesis and Leukemia
National Cancer Institute · K08
Contact PI · $879.1K · University of Southern California
Clinical trials
- 2018–2020
Principal investigator · Terminated · Phase 1
University of Southern California
- 2024–2032
Site PI · Recruiting · Phase 3
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
- 2024–2032
Consolidation of First-Line MRD+ Remission With Cema-cel in Patients With LBCL
Site PI · Recruiting · Phase 2
Allogene Therapeutics
- 2023–2029
Site PI · Recruiting · Phase 2
SWOG Cancer Research Network