Waseem Qasim: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- Researcher at Great Ormond Street Hospital and University College London
- Quoted on
- Children's health, Cancer, Hospital discharge / bed-blocking
- Press citations held
- 3
- Most recently quoted
- 30 Sept 2026
- First quoted
- 27 Aug 2026
“I feel incredibly privileged to be included in TIME's health list this year, but this is really down to the work of the amazingly dedicated teams that pull together to find new ways to help patients.”
What Waseem Qasim has said
“Previously, in research funded by Blood Cancer UK, Professor Waseem Qasim identified a way to modify the CAR-T cells that shields them from attacking each other and instead allows them to just seek out and destroy the cancerous leukaemia cells.”
Researcher at Great Ormond Street Hospital and University College London · Cancer · 30 Sept 2026 · New study strengthens evidence for new CAR T-cell treatment for aggressive blood cancer ↗
“we are going to end up with treatments that work, but that nobody wants to pay for”
paediatric immunologist · Hospital discharge / bed-blocking · 27 Aug 2026 · The Guardian view on gene editing: breakthroughs need a new social contract | Editorial ↗
Where Waseem Qasim has been quoted
- UCL scientist and patient jointly named on TIME100 Health list | UCL Newsucl.ac.uk · 30 Sept 2026
- New study strengthens evidence for new CAR T-cell treatment for aggressive blood cancerbloodcancer.org.uk · 30 Sept 2026
- The Guardian view on gene editing: breakthroughs need a new social contract | Editorialtheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026
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