Mr Rasheed Zakaria
Current positions
Senior Clinical Lecturer in Neurosurgery, Department of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, University of Liverpool, UK
Honorary Consultant Neurosurgeon, The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK
Qualifications
MA, PhD, FRCS
Short biography
Rasheed read medical sciences and neuroscience at the University of Cambridge before studying clinical medicine at Oxford University then undertaking foundation clinical training in London. He trained for 8 years in neurosurgery in Liverpool and at MDAnderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas subspecialising in brain and spine tumours. He took time out of surgical training to complete a full-time PhD investigating brain metastasis invasion for which he was funded by the Medical Research Council (UK) and the Royal College of Surgeons (England). Rasheed is a general neurosurgeon with subspecialist interest in brain tumours and an early stage researcher in the preclinical brain tumour programme in Liverpool. He is chief investigator on the CRUK-funded “Britemet” brain metastasis study and supervises postgraduate (PhD, MRes) students on a variety of projects focused on immunotherapy, brain tumour invasion and advanced imaging.
Selected publications
In summary, h-index of 22, 50+ articles in peer reviewed journals including:
- Zakaria R et al. The Role of the Immune Response in Brain Metastases: Novel Imaging Biomarkers for Immunotherapy. Frontiers in Oncology. 2021 Oct 26;11:711405
- Zakaria R et al. T-Cell Densities in Brain Metastases Are Associated with Patient Survival Times and Diffusion Tensor MRI Changes. Cancer Research 2018 Feb 1;78(3):610-616.
- Zakaria R et al. Identifying locally invasive brain metastases to improve control and survival. Neuro-Oncology. 2018 Jan 20(Suppl 1), i14.
- Zakaria R et al. Metastasis-inducing proteins are widely expressed in human brain metastases and associated with intracranial progression and radiation response. British Journal of Cancer. 2016 May 10;114(10):1101-8.