MalekAlassfarMD

Anatomic Pathology, Clinical Pathology

Physician

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Dr. Malek Asfar is a pathologist in Cleveland, OH and is affiliated with MetroHealth Medical Center/Case Western Reserve University. He received his medical degree from Damascus University Faculty of Medicine and has been in practice 11 years. He also speaks multiple languages, including Arabic. He specializes in anatomic pathology and clinical pathology. He has 2 publications and 15 citings.

The MetroHealth System/Case Western Reserve UniversityResidency, Pathology-Anatomic and Clinical, 2021 - 2025
Damascus University Faculty of MedicineClass of 2012

PubMed

Decoding LncRNA in COPD: Unveiling Prognostic and Diagnostic Power and Their Driving Role in Lung Cancer Progression.
Osama Sweef, Reda Mahfouz, Tülin Taşcıoğlu, Ali Albowaidey, Mohamed Abdelmonem
International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2024-08-19
"Sebaceous holes": A clue to the diagnosis of nevus sebaceus.
Malek Asfar, Angela Styles, Stephen Somach
Journal of Cutaneous Pathology. 2023-09-01
26 citations
Androgen Deprivation Induces Transcriptional Reprogramming in Prostate Cancer Cells to Develop Stem Cell-Like Characteristics.
Shiv Verma, Eswar Shankar, F Naz Cemre Kalayci, Amrita Mukunda, Malek Alassfar
International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2020-12-16

ResearcherCase Western Reserve University, School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio Researcher; worked on multiple projects, applying basic cell culturing, PCR, and western blot, performing immunohistochemistry staining, and using QuPath software and cellular annotation.2019 - 2020