1st December at 15-16
Onsite event
in Lauren 1, Medisiina D, Kiinamyllynkatu 10

Ahmed Al-Samadi, Associate Professor, University of Eastern Finland
The Immune Microenvironment in Oral Cancer: From Prognostic Biomarkers to Novel Immunotherapies

Host: Maria Sundvall

Coffee & pulla will be served to the first twenty participants. Welcome!

Ahmed Al-Samadi is working as a Tenure track Professor of Oral Pathology (80%) in the University of Eastern Finland and as an Academy Research Fellow (20%) in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Diseases in the University of Helsinki. His research focuses on the understanding of immunological aspects of oral carcinogenesis and on the development of models for personalized medicine to head and neck cancer. Al-Samadi has received his PhD in 2015 from the Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine in the University of Helsinki and graduated in 2008 as a Doctor of Dental Surgery from the College of Dentistry in the University of Mosul in Iraq.

Selected recent publications:

Giedraityte et al. The protective role of IL-17C in oral squamous cell carcinoma. Transl Oncol 2025.

Wahbi et al. Evaluation of in vitro and in vivo personalized cancer treatment assays for oral squamous cell carcinoma. Transl Oncol 2023.

Sieviläinen et al. IDO1 Inhibition Reduces Immune Cell Exclusion Through Inducing Cell Migration While PD-1 Blockage Increases IL-6 and -8 Secretion From T Cells in Head and Neck Cancer. Front. Immunol 2022.