Monther Al-Alwan is a senior scientist at the Cell Therapy and
Immunobiology Department (CTIBD), King Faisal Specialist Hospital and
Research Centre, as well as a professor at Alfaisal University, Riyadh Saudi
Arabia. He holds an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Immunology from Dalhousie University
(Halifax, Canada). He conducted a 3-year postdoctoral fellowship studying
signaling in immune cells at the University of Manitoba, Canada. During his
graduate studies and postdoctoral fellowship, he made substantial contributions
to the immunology field, particularly his groundbreaking discovery that
highlighted the significance of the dendritic cells in the immunological
synapse. After joining the CTIBD in 2007, he shifted gears to study cancer,
where he identified novel mechanisms that regulate cancer metastasis and
chemoresistance. Currently, he is actively involved in dissecting the molecular
pathways that regulate the function of cancer stem cells and how this relates
to chemoresistance and metastasis.
