Introduction:
Maya Khalil, M.D., is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hematology & Oncology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She received her Hematology-Oncology training at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, where she developed expertise in clinical trial design, drug development, and patient care.
Research:
Her research was focused on the tumor immune microenvironment in mutation driven non-small cell lung cancer. Her focus continues to be on genomic understanding of thoracic malignancies (i.e small cell and non-small cell lung cancers), and developing novel agents that can manipulate the immune microenvironment to overcome resistance to therapies.