Hassan Fathallah-Shaykh, M.D., Ph.D. Print E-mail
 FathallahAssociate Professor of Neurology

Professional Background: MD, American University of Beirut, Lebanon, 1985; Ph.D. Mathematics, The University of Illinois at Chicago, 2007
Office: FOT 1020, 510 20th St South, Birmingham AL 35294-3410
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Personal Info:
Hassan Fathallah-Shaykh, M.D., Ph.D., joined the Department of Neurology on September 1, 2008 as Associate Professor of Neurology with the Division of Neuro-oncology.  A native of Beirut, Lebanon, Dr. Fathallah earned his M.D. with distinction from the American University of Beirut in 1985. He was a resident in Neurology at the University of Chicago Hospitals and Clinics, and he was also a resident in Internal Medicine at Duke University Medical Center. Afterwards he completed a fellowship in Neuro-Oncology at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, NY. Prior to joining the faculty at UAB, Dr. Fathallah was an Associate Professor of Neuro-Oncology at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois. In 2006 he was named one of America’s Top Physicians.

Research Interests
I am interested in applying ideas from mathematics to tackle nonlinear multidimensional biological problems, particularly those related to the systems biology of cancer, the dynamics of molecular networks, biological rhythms, and modeling/analysis of microarray data.

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Selected Publicationis

Bona JL, Fathallah-Shaykh HM. Approximation by cubic splines generates highly specific discovery by microarrays. Open Bioinformatics J, In Press, 2008.


Fathallah-Shaykh HM. Noise and rank dependent geometrical filter improves sensitivity of highly specific discovery by microarrays. Bioinformatics, 21:4255-4262, 2005.
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Fathallah-Shaykh HM. Logical networks inferred from highly specific discovery of transcriptionally regulated genes predict protein states in cultured gliomas. Biochem Biophys Res Comm 336:1278 –1284, 2005.

Fathallah-Shaykh HM. Genomic discovery reveals a molecular system for resistance to ER and oxidative stress in cultured glioma. Arch Neurol 62:233-236, 2005.


Fathallah-Shaykh HM., He B, Zhao L-J, Engelhard H, Cerullo L, Lichtor T, Byrne R, Munoz L, Von Roenn K, Rosseau G, Glick R, Chen S, Khan F. Genomic expression discovery predicts pathways and opposing functions behind phenotypes. J Biol Chem 278:23830-23833, 2003.


Fathallah-Shaykh HM, He B, Zhao LJ, Badruddin A. Mathematical algorithm for discovering states of expression from direct genetic comparison by microarrays. Nucleic Acids Res. 32(13):3807-14, 2004.


Fathallah-Shaykh HM, Rigen M, Zhao L-J, Bansal K, He B, Engelhard HH, Cerullo L, Von Roenn K, Richard Byrne, Munoz L, Rosseau GL, Glick R, Lichtor T, DiSavino E. Mathematical modeling of noise and discovery of genetic expression classes in glioma. Oncogene 21:7164-7174, 2002. Supplementary Information (PDF file)