Associate Professor@UNMC. Brain Metastasis, Tumor Microenvironment, Chemokines, Non-coding RNAs and Experimental Therapeutics.
Joined September 2018
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Wasim Nasser, PhD retweeted
11 Dec 2025
Beautiful new work driven by star MD/PhD fellow Takahiro Tsuji in Japan’s Wake Laboratory.
10 Dec 2025
Caught in the act: Brain microglia (green) attacking and ingesting tumor cells (red)
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Wasim Nasser, PhD retweeted
Exciting findings from @NasserWasim's lab: Targeting FOXM1 with small molecule inhibitors reshapes the immune response and sensitizes chemo-resistant small cell lung cancer cells to treatment.
Read here: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Wasim Nasser, PhD retweeted
Congratulations to Dr. Nasser Lab @NasserWasim on publishing manuscript “Targeting FOXM1 reshapes antitumor immunity to attenuate small cell lung cancer progression” in Cancer Letters! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4127… Md Arafat Khan is the first author
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Wasim Nasser, PhD retweeted
Thank you to @AparGanti for taking the time to discuss lung cancer in Nebraska and who is eligible for CT screening. Early detection saves lives!
#LungCancerAwarenessMonth
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Wasim Nasser, PhD retweeted
Our talented Biochemistry & Molecular Biology students created a new video showcasing the energy, curiosity, and community that make the BMB Department truly special.
👉 Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=YsZuZNhk…
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Wasim Nasser, PhD retweeted
Recent article by @Dr_JSantamaria, @NasserWasim, and Dr. Surinder Batra in @AnnSurgOncol shows that pre-treatment tumor collagen is associated with TNBC resistance to chemo-immunotherapy -- potential for predictive biomarkers and targeted treatments! link.springer.com/article/10…
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Wasim Nasser, PhD retweeted
Congratulations to Dr. Batra and Dr. Lakshmanan labs @ImayavarambanL for
the manuscript “ST6GalNAc-I regulates tumor cell sialylation via NECTIN2/MUC5AC-mediated immunosuppression and angiogenesis in
non–small cell lung cancer” published in JCI!
jci.org/articles/view/186863
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Wasim Nasser, PhD retweeted
11 Apr 2025
Online Now: Pan-cancer human brain metastases atlas at single-cell resolution dlvr.it/TK6FLl
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Congratulations to Dr. Nasser Lab @NasserWasim on publishing manuscript “Mucin5AC promotes breast cancer brain metastasis through cMET/CD44v6” in Clinical Cancer Research! Shailendra Maurya is the first author
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Wasim Nasser, PhD retweeted
11 Dec 2024
Very proud and excited about presenting our work on B7-H3 (CD276) in breast cancer brain metastasis by Dr. Asad Rehman post-doc with @NasserWasim @SABCSSanAntonio @UNMCCOM @unmc @UNMCSurgery @UNMC_Biochem @BuffettCancer
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Wasim Nasser, PhD retweeted
3 Aug 2023
Join us tomorrow for the BMB Annual Research Symposium! We have some great speakers lined up, including our Keynote Speaker, Dr. Holly Van Remmen who will share her work on the effect of redox biology on muscles in aging. @unmc_research @UNMCCOM @UNMC_Biochem
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Wasim Nasser, PhD retweeted
Congratulations to Dr. Batra and Dr. Lakshmanan on publishing article “MUC16 promotes triple‑negative breast cancer lung metastasis by modulating RNA‑binding protein ELAVL1/HUR” in BMC Breast Cancer Research
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Sanjib Chaudhary is a first author
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Wasim Nasser, PhD retweeted
15 Jan 2023
A recent @ScienceTM Viewpoint reviews recent developments in #immunotherapy for solid tumors and highlights progress in translational research and clinical practice. scim.ag/1aN
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Wasim Nasser, PhD retweeted
14 Jan 2023
A new detection technique for small-cell lung cancer (#SCLC) that searches for disease-linked autoantibodies could address the need for a feasible test for earlier diagnosis in patients with this aggressive #cancer, show researchers at @fredhutch. scim.ag/1aq
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Wasim Nasser, PhD retweeted
14 Jan 2023
One in every three Nebraskans will hear the words “you have cancer” in their lifetime. Dr. Ken Cowan is director and physician-in-chief at @unmc's Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center—which is improving cancer research and treatment for all. Read his story: nebraska.edu/nuforne/ken-cow…
ALT Portrait of Dr. Ken Cowan
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Wasim Nasser, PhD retweeted
Congratulations to Dr. Micah Schott @micahschott and Dr. Jawed Siddiqui @jawed_siddiqui_
on the UNMC New Investigator Award!
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Wasim Nasser, PhD retweeted
Congratulations to Dr. Nasser Lab @NasserWasim on publishing “MicroRNA-1 attenuates the growth and metastasis of small cell lung cancer through CXCR4/FOXM1/RRM2 axis” in Molecular Cancer molecular-cancer.biomedcentr…. Parvez Khan is first author
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Wasim Nasser, PhD retweeted
Review article from Dr. Wasim Nasser Lab @NasserWasim “Epigenetic alterations fuel brain metastasis via regulating inflammatory cascade”
published in Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology
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Wasim Nasser, PhD retweeted
Review article from Dr. Wasim Nasser Lab
@NasserWasim “Emerging role of chemokines in small cell lung cancer: Road signs for metastasis, heterogeneity, and immune response” published in the Seminars in Cancer Biology
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Wasim Nasser, PhD retweeted
7 Aug 2022
How does tumor heterogeneity impact #metastasis?
I am excited to share our latest pre-print: We used patient derived-xenograft models (PDX) of #breastcancer to examine the contributions of tumor heterogeneity on metastasis at single-cell resolution.
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Dissecting the contributions of tumor heterogeneity on metastasis at single-cell resolution biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #bioRxiv
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