Education

PharmD-Ohio Northern University; PhD in Biomedical Sciencces-Ohio State University

Background

Dr. Houda Alachkar received her Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences from the Ohio State University in December 2012 under the mentorship of Prof. Guido Marcucci and received her PharmD degree from Ohio Northern University in 2011. In September 2015, she joined the University of Southern California (USC) School of Pharmacy as an Assistant Professor. The Alachkar lab focuses on applying genomic information to the identification and functional characterization of cancer targets, and in the preclinical and clinical developments of potential targeted therapeutic approaches with particular interest in acute myeloid leukemia.

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