Team

Saad Z. Usmani

Chief of Myeloma Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Saad received his medical education at Allama Iqbal Medical College in Lahore, Pakistan. He has also completed a residency in internal medicine at Sinai-Grace Hospital/Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan and a fellowship in hematology and oncology at the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington, Connecticut.

Saad joined the Myeloma Institute for Research & Therapy, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, AR in 2010 as the Director of Developmental Therapeutics. He was recruited to the Levine Cancer Institute/Atrium Health in 2013 as the inaugural Division Chief of Plasma Cell Disorders and Director of Clinical Research for Hematologic Malignancies where he built an internationally renowned myeloma program. He joined Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in 2021 as the Chief of Myeloma Service and holds a faculty position as Professor of Clinical Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University. Saad is board-certified in internal medicine, medical oncology, and hematology.

Saad is a also a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the Royal College of Physicians (UK), and the American Society of Clinical Oncology. He holds membership and leadership roles on national/international committees, including the International Myeloma Working Group, the ALLIANCE Myeloma NCTN Committee (Chair), the American Society of Hematology (ASH), the American Society of Clinical Oncology, International Myeloma Society (Board Member), the American Society of Transplant & Cellular Therapy, and the National Cancer Institute Myeloma Steering Committee. Saad has served as the Vice-Chair of the SWOG Myeloma Committee and has served as chair for the ASH Scientific Committee on Plasma Cell Neoplasia, and the ASCO Scientific Committee on Lymphoma and Plasma Cell Disorders.

Saad has received several international awards recognizing his clinical and translational research contributions to the field, including the Celgene Young Investigator Award for Clinical Research, COMY Award for Excellence in Myeloma Research, LLS Scholar in Clinical Research, the International Myeloma Society Bart Barlogie Award for Clinical and Translational Research, and the LLS CDP Achievement Award.

Saad has led the clinical development of several novel therapies, including anti-CD38 monoclonal antibodies, bispecific antibodies and CAR-T cell therapies resulting in regulatory approvals in multiple myeloma. Saad has authored/co-authored more than 295 peer-reviewed research manuscripts (NEJM, Lancet, JCO, Cancer Cell, Blood, Leukemia, etc.).  Active in clinical and translational research, Saad has a focus on plasma cell disorders, in particular, high-risk multiple myeloma.