Mehdi H. Hamadani, MD
Professor of Medicine; Associate Director of Clinical Research; Cancer Center Scholar Endowed Chair, Section Chief of Hematologic Malignancies
Locations
- Froedtert Hospital
- Clinical Cancer Center - Froedtert Hospital
Specialties
- Hematology
- Medical Oncology
Languages
- English, Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi
Clinical Cancer Center - Froedtert Hospital
Education
- MD - Doctor of Medicine
Biography
Dr. Hamadani is a professor of medicine and chief of hematologic malignancies at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) in Milwaukee, WI. He serves as the Associate Director of Clinical Research at the MCW Clinical Cancer Center and holds the Cancer Center Scholar Endowed Chair. Dr. Hamadani graduated with honors from King Edward Medical College (Pakistan), in 2001. He completed internal medicine residency from the University of Oklahoma followed by a fellowship in Hematology/Oncology at The Ohio State University. He is considered an international key opinion leader in the fields of hematopoietic cell transplantation, cellular therapy and lymphoid malignancies. He has authored over 450 peer-reviewed publications. As the Principal Protocol Officer for BMT CTN and Co-PI of MCW LAPS Grant he has extensive experience in clinical trial design and has been involved in the development and execution of several practice changing transplant clinical trials. He chairs the ASTCT Committee on Practice Guidelines and served as the Secretary of American Society for Transplant and Cellular Therapies (2024-26). His key areas of search include graft-versus-host disease (GvHD), developmental therapeutics for lymphoid malignancies and hematopoietic cell transplantation. His clinical expertise includes lymphomas, transplant, and CAR-T cell therapies. He considers mentoring junior faculty and trainees as his top-most priority.
Research Interests
Publications
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(Runaas L, Fank S, Palen K, Szabo A, Rein LE, Ying G, Salzman N, Samanas L, Abedin S, Chhabra S, Hamadani M, Longo W, Shah NN, Haber J, Gradissimo A, Waters N, Peled JU, Johnson B, Kearl T, Drobyski WR.) Blood Adv. 2026 Apr 28;10(8):2698-2710 PMID: 41632629 PMCID: PMC13101680 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105035803096 02/03/2026
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(Einarsdottir S, Fei T, Singh KH, Martens MJ, Young JH, Bhavsar K, Kou J, Chen M, Lee LW, Baluch A, Dhodapkar MV, Nakamura R, Peyton K, Shahid Z, Armistead PM, Westervelt P, McCarty J, McGuirk JP, Hamadani M, Sharon E, Spahn A, Toor AA, Waldvogel SL, Greenberger LM, Auletta JJ, Horowitz MM, Riches M, Hosszu K, Hill JA, DeWolf S, Perales MA.) Blood Adv. 2026 Apr 06 PMID: 41941698 04/06/2026
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(Hamby M, Egleston BL, Frosch ZAK, Steiner RE, Noy A, Carvajal V, Chong ER, Tolu SS, Jean-Louis G, Amengual JE, Patel R, Ahmed S, Sharp J, Voorhees T, Baiocchi R, Ramirez-Gamero A, Castillo JJ, Hamburger E, Dittus C, Nizamuddin IA, Mehta-Shah N, Thaw Dar NN, Sandoval-Sus J, Rojek AE, Riedell PA, Khan N, Danilov A, Solipuram V, Rubinstein PG, Ariotti A, Suneja G, Vartanov A, Milrod C, Olszewski AJ, Smilnak G, Ayers E, Desai S, Rhodes JM, Magarelli G, Feldman T, Pellon M, Aboulafia DM, Bae W, Galvez C, Bhatlapenumarthi V, Hamadani M, Barta SK.) Blood Cancer J. 2026 Mar 23;16(1) PMID: 41872135 PMCID: PMC13031790 03/24/2026
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(Crombie JL, Ahmed S, Frigault MJ, Hunter BD, Palomba ML, Mirza AS, Lunning MA, Egini O, Odstrcil Bobillo MS, Kallam A, Kambhampati Thiruvengadam S, Lee D, Dahiya S, Hamadani M, Herrera AF, Lee CJ, Patel K, Patel SS, Reagan PM, Shadman M, Bernasconi D, Kim S, Liu FF, Roy D, Pasquini MC, Isufi I.) Blood. 2026 Mar 03 PMID: 41774517 03/03/2026
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(Ahmed S, Kumar A, Carpenter P, Herrera A, Kelly K, Pinnix C, Rutherford S, Grover N, Evens A, Lynch R, Kenkre V, Merryman R, Sauter C, Nishihori T, Moskowitz A, Awan F, Svoboda J, Winter J, Allen P, Ermoian R, Ansell S, Aljuhaishi T, Nieto Y, Hamadani M, Perales MA.) Transplant Cell Ther. 2026 Mar;32(3):250-260 PMID: 41478324 01/02/2026
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(Wirbel J, Saber W, Martens MJ, Peled JU, Andermann TM, Fei T, Brooks EF, Doyle B, Pincus NB, Jenq RR, Bar M, Bolaños-Meade J, Bratrude B, Chhabra S, Choi SW, Clark W, Das S, Elmariah H, Gooptu M, Holtan SG, Jones RJ, Levine JE, Logan BR, Al Malki MM, Murthy HS, Rashidi A, Rezvani AR, Riches ML, Runaas L, Sandhu K, Spahn A, Sung AD, van den Brink MRM, Horowitz MM, Hamadani M, Kean LS, Perales MA, Bhatt AS.) bioRxiv. 2026 Feb 19 PMID: 41756883 PMCID: PMC12934721 02/27/2026
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Conditioning, MRD, and NPM1 comutation in the MORPHO trial.
(Levis MJ, Hamadani M, Chen YB.) Blood Adv. 2026 Jan 27;10(2):514-515 PMID: 41160800 PMCID: PMC12869865 10/29/2025
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(Ghobadi A, Anagnostou T, Azzi J, Hamadani M, Logan B, Ahmed S, Bharadwaj S, Baird JH, Jacobson C, Locke FL, Ulrickson M, Reagan PM, Hemmer MT, Hu ZH, Luo ZC, Wang HL, Jung AS, Nahas M, Best T, Beygi S, Pasquini MC.) Transplant Cell Ther. 2026 Jan 10 PMID: 41525947 01/13/2026
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(Aughey E, Shah NN, Hillard CJ, Rentscher KE, Hamadani M, Longo W, Devata S, Knight JM, Cusatis R.) Transplant Cell Ther. 2026 Jan 02 PMID: 41485560 PMCID: PMC12952239 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105029718493 01/05/2026
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CD19 directed CAR T therapy for intravascular large B-cell lymphoma.
(Patel J, Gopal A, Cherniawsky H, Ram R, Kamble R, Hamadani M.) Haematologica. 2025 Nov 06 PMID: 41195517 11/06/2025
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(Spellman SR, Xu K, Oloyede T, Ahn KW, Akhtar OS, Bolon YT, Broglie L, Bloomquist J, Bupp C, Chen M, Devine SM, Jurdi NE, Hamadani M, Hengen M, Huppler AH, Jaglowski S, Kuxhausen M, Lee SJ, Moskop A, Page KM, Pasquini MC, Pérez WS, Phelan R, Rizzo D, Saber W, Stefanski HE, Steinert P, Tuschl E, Visotcky A, Vogel R, Auletta JJ, Shaw BE, Allbee-Johnson M.) Transplant Cell Ther. 2025 Oct 07 PMID: 41027557 PMCID: PMC12606686 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105018107118 10/01/2025
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(Hamby M, Egleston B, Frosch Z, Steiner R, Noy A, Carvajal V, Chong E, Tolu S, Jean-Louis G, Amengual J, Patel R, Ahmed S, Sharp J, Voorhees T, Baiocchi R, Ramirez-Gamero A, Castillo J, Hamburger E, Dittus C, Nizamuddin I, Mehta-Shah N, Dar NNT, Sandoval-Sus J, Rojek A, Riedell P, Khan N, Danilov A, Solipuram V, Rubinstein P, Ariotti A, Suneja G, Vartanov A, Milrod C, Olszewski A, Smilnak G, Ayers E, Desai S, Rhodes J, Magarelli G, Feldman T, Pellon M, Aboulafia D, Bae W, Galvez C, Bhatlapenumarthi V, Hamadani M, Barta S.) Res Sq. 2025 Sep 30 PMID: 41255989 PMCID: PMC12622178 11/19/2025