Professional Activities

Work Experience:

1995 – 2000 PhD student/Research assistant, including teaching (totally 1500 hours). The teaching work included planning, preparing and teaching basic (A or B-level; Basic Genetics and Molecular Genetics) and advanced (C or D-level; Gene Technology, Advanced Genetics and Human Genetics) laboratory courses.
2001

Postdoc at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology-Genetics, Göteborg, Sweden,

2002 Postdoc at the Genetics Branch Center for Cancer Research National Cancer Institute/NIH50 South Drive, Bethesda, USA.
2003 – Present

Employed as researcher full-time, Department of Oncology, University of Gothenburg.

Supervision:

Former PhD students under my supervision

  • Elin Karlsson: Novel biomarkers predicting long-term survival in breast cancer, 2009
  • Szilárd Nemes: Integrative genomic and survival analysis of breast tumors 2012
  • Emman Shubbar: Analysis of Novel Biomarkers for Unfavorable Breast Cancer Prognosis 2012
  • Toshima Parris: High-risk breast cancer. From biology to personalized therapeutic strategies 2014

Former PhD students under my co-supervision

  • Anna Danielsson PhD 2005
  • Tatjana Adamovic, PhD 2006
  • Ahmad Hamta PhD 2006

Former postdocs under my supervision

  • Irina Corin 2005
  • Anna Danielsson

Current PhD students under my supervision

  • Luaay Aziz, MD, MB ChB.
  • Elin Söderberg (from autumn 2014)
  • Elisabeth Werner Rönnerman, MD (from autumn 2014)

Current PhD students under my co-supervision

  • Nils Rudqvist
  • Emil Schüler
  • Britta Langen

Current postdocs under my supervision

  • Toshima Parris

Scientific Advisory Functions

  • Expert advisor for the employment of Johan Vallon Christersson at Lund University as Research Assistant in functional cancer genomics.
  • Expert advisor for the associate professorship in experimental oncology of Charlotte Welinder at Lund University.

Examination board member for doctoral dissertatiosn:

  • Annika Bergman, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, Sahlgrenska Academy at Göteborg University (2006).
  • Princy Francis, Department of Oncology, Lund University (2007).
  • Marie Ahnström Waltersson, Department of Clinical, Experimental Medicine, Linköping University (2009).
  • Stina Petersson, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, Sahlgrenska Academy at Göteborg University (2010).
  • Johan Staaf, Department of Oncology, Lund University (2010).
  • Vu Hong Thang, Department of Pathology and Oncology, Karolinska Institutet (2012)
  • Christina Kåbjörn Gustafsson, Department of Pathology, Sahlgrenska Academy at Göteborg University (2014)

Involvement In Scientific Journals

  • Editorial board member of the BMC Cancer
  • Editorial board member at the Open Gene Therapy Journal.
  • Editorial board member at the Journal of Cancer Therapeutics and Research.
  • Editorial board member at the Oncocytology journal.
  • Editorial board member at the Conference Papers in Molecular Biology

Honors And Rewards

  • 2013       Eva Selin-grant as cancer researcher
  • 2001 – 2003         Swedish Cancer Society (Cancerfonden) postdoctoral fellow.
  • 1995 – 1997         Sven and Lilly Lawski graduate fellow in Genetics.

 

 

 

Khalil Helou

Associate Professor

 

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  • DEPARTMENTDepartment of Oncology
    Institute of Clinical Sciences
    University of Gothenburg
  • COUNTRYSweden