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URL:https://biocityturku.fi/events/fican-west-guest-lecture-al-samadi/
SUMMARY:FICAN West Guest Lecture: Al-Samadi
DESCRIPTION:1st December at 15-16\nOnsite event\nin Lauren 1\, Medisiina D\
 , Kiinamyllynkatu 10\n\nAhmed Al-Samadi\, Associate Professor\, University
  of Eastern Finland\nThe Immune Microenvironment in Oral Cancer: From Prog
 nostic Biomarkers to Novel Immunotherapies\n\nHost: Maria Sundvall\n\nCoff
 ee &amp\; pulla will be served to the first twenty participants. Welcome!\
 n\n&nbsp\;\n\nAhmed Al-Samadi is working as a Tenure track Professor of Or
 al 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 re
 ceived his PhD in 2015 from the Department of Clinical Medicine\, Faculty 
 of Medicine in the University of Helsinki and graduated in 2008 as a Docto
 r of Dental Surgery from the College of Dentistry in the University of Mos
 ul in Iraq.\n\n&nbsp\;\n\nSelected recent publications:\n\nGiedraityte et 
 al. The protective role of IL-17C in oral squamous cell carcinoma. Transl 
 Oncol 2025.\n\nWahbi et al. Evaluation of in vitro and in vivo personalize
 d cancer treatment assays for oral squamous cell carcinoma. Transl Oncol 2
 023.\n\nSieviläinen 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.
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