Somayah Qutub

Postdoctoral Fellow

Post-doctoral fellow

Current

Research Interests

Interested in cancer therapy and personalized medicine. Also, biomolecules delivery using smart nanocarriers such as MOF and macrocycles

Selected Publications

Amphiphilic Cell Penetrating Macrocycle for Efficient Cytosolic Delivery of Proteins, DNA and CRISPR Cas9

Somayah S. Qutub, Imtiyaz Ahmad Bhat, Batoul I. Maatouk, Kashif Nawaz; Escarlet Diaz-Galicia, Aliyah Fakim, Weibin Lin, Raik Grünberg, Stefan T. Arold, Niveen M. Khashab

Angewandte Chemie, 10.1002/anie.202403647, (2024)

Rhodamine B-Conjugated Fluorescent Block Copolymer Micelles for Efficient Chlorambucil Delivery and Intracellular Imaging

Bhagyashree Kulkarni, Somayah Qutub, Niveen M. Khashab, Nikos Hadjichristidis

ACS Omega, 8, 25, 22698–22707, (2023)

Dynamic Hydrogen‐Bonded Zinc Adeninate Framework (ZAF) for Immobilization of Catalytic DNA

Walaa S. Baslyman, Dr. Othman Alahmed, Dr. Santanu Chand, Somayah Qutub, Prof. Niveen M. Khashab

Angewandte Chemie, 19;62(25):e202302840, (2023)

DNA-Mimicking Metal–Organic Frameworks with Accessible Adenine Faces for Complementary Base Pairing

Santanu Chand, Othman Alahmed, Walaa S. Baslyman, Avishek Dey, Somayah Qutub, Ranajit Saha, Yuh Hijikata, Manal Alaamery, and Niveen M. Khashab

JACS Au, 2, 3, 623–630, (2022)

AIE-Based Fluorescent Triblock Copolymer Micelles for Simultaneous Drug Delivery and Intracellular Imaging

Bhagyashree Kulkarni, Somayah Qutub, Viko Ladelta, Niveen M. Khashab, and Nikos Hadjichristidis

Biomacromolecules, 22, 12, 5243–5255, (2021)

Biocompatibility and biodegradability of metal organic frameworks for biomedical applications

Namita Singh, Somayah Qutub  and  Niveen M. Khashab

J. Mater. Chem. B, 9, 5925-5934, (2021)

Sustained and targeted delivery of checkpoint inhibitors by metal-organic frameworks for cancer immunotherapy

Shahad K Alsaiari, Somayah S Qutub, Shichao Sun, Walaa Baslyman, Mansour Aldehaiman, Mram Alyami, Abdulaziz Almalik, Rabih Halwani, Jasmeen Merzaban, Zhengwei Mao, Niveen M Khashab

SCIENCE ADVANCES, 10.1126/sciadv.abe7174, (2021)

Impact of aggregation triggering ultrashort self-assembling peptide motifs on the solubility of proteins

Muhammad Saleem, Somayah Salah Qutub, Hepi Hari Susapto and Charlotte AE Hauser

Frontiers in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 10.15761/FNN.1000174, (2018)

Education

B.Sc., Biotechnology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, 2016

M.Sc., Bioengineering, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, 2018

Ph.D., Bioengineering, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, 2023

Professional Profile

2024: Postdoctoral fellow, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

KAUST Affiliations

Division of Physical Science and Engineering (PSE)

Research Interests Keywords

cancer therapy cellular uptake smart nanomaterials targeted delivery