Ali Arafa
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Ali Arafa
@aliarafaa
Postdoc at @UMNews | Passionate about GU Oncology | Royal College of Surgeons alumnus | Interested in proteogenomics and liquid biopsies 🇪🇬🇺🇸




Congratulations @aliarafaa on developing the first prognostic blood-based PROTEOMIC biomarker for 177Lu-PSMA-617 efficacy, presented at ASCO ‘25. @UMNCancer @UMNews meetings.asco.org/abstracts-pres…


Largest study of BRCA-associated cancers (24,309) shows that somatic tumor landscape is influenced by germline HRR muts: gBRCA1-altered cancers are enriched in somatic TP53 muts; gATM-altered cancers are depleted in TP53 mut. Congrats @aliarafaa @umncancer aacrjournals.org/clincancerres/…

Congrats @aliarafaa for developing a new method for robust plasma exosome proteomics capable of detecting and quantifying >5000 proteins incl. PSMA, B7H3, TROP2 and STEAP1. A new blood-based biomarker is born! @UMNews mdpi.com/2072-6694/16/2…






Amphicrine prostate cancer may be a transitional state between prostate adenoCa and small cell/NEPC. Upregulation of FOXA1 and OTX2 may play a role. Congrats to Megan Ludwig for this deep multi-omic analysis. @UMNCancer @umn_dom @DrJustinDrake @aliarafaa nature.com/articles/s4169…

I'm thrilled to share that I have been awarded an @AmericanCancer Postdoctoral Fellowship for my prostate cancer research. Many thanks to the prostate cancer team @DrJustinDrake @EAntonarakis @scottdehm and @MPaT_PHCL_UMN for their invaluable support.



















