Dr. Mohammad Monzr Al Malki, MD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation and Director of the Unrelated Donor Bone Marrow Transplant and Haploidentical Transplant Programs at the City of Hope. Dr. Al Malki is a physician-scientist with a research focus on mismatched related and unrelated donors as sources of stem cells for transplantation to treat patients with blood cancers without access to matched donors. His research focuses mainly on improving access to transplantation in older patients, minorities, and patients with refractory blood cancers. He has ongoing studies to improve the safety of mismatched grafts by in-vivo or ex-vivo T cell depletion.
Dr. Al Malki graduated from the Damascus University School of Medicine, Syria in 2003. He continued his education at Cleveland Clinic’s Huron Hospital, completing his internship and residency in internal medicine. He then went on to earn two fellowships — the first in hematology and medical oncology at Boston University School of Medicine Program at Roger William Medical Center in Providence, Rhode Island, and the latter here at City of Hope in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.
Board-certified in internal medicine, hematology, and medical oncology, Dr. Al Malki holds memberships with several professional societies including the American College of Physicians, the American Society of Hematology, and the American Society of Clinical Oncology. He is also serving as an inspector-trainee for FACT (Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy).
Dr. Al Malki has served as a postdoctoral research fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston. He has written several publications and has been invited to do presentations and poster sessions to discuss his work.