Hala Taha, MD

    Head of Pathology Department

Head of Pathology Department

Professor of Pathology, National Cancer Institute, Cairo University

Education:

  • MD. Oncologic Pathology, National Cancer Institute, Cairo University
  • MSc. Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University
  • BSc. Medicine & Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University

Selected Publications:

  • Incidence of kiaa1549-braf fusion gene in Egyptian pediatric low grade glioma
  • December 2015 Clinical and Translational Medicine 4(1):10
    DOI: 10.1186/s40169-015-0052-7
    Authors:
    Hala Taha, Maha Yehia Hussein, Madeha Mahmoud, Mohamed Ahmed El Beltagy, Myret Ghabriel, Shahenda El-Naggar.

  • Association of Aggresomes with Survival Outcomes in Pediatric Medulloblastoma
  • August 2019 Scientific Reports 9(1)
    DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-49027-x
    Project: Conference Abstract
    Authors:
    Maha Yehia Hussein, Hala Taha, Asmaa Salama, Nada Amer, Amal Mosaab Abdelaziz, Amal Refaat, Dina Ahmed Yassin, Ahmed El-Hemaly, Soha Ahmed, Mohamed Ahmed El Beltagy, Osama Shaalan, Shahenda El-Naggar.

  • Aggresomes predict poor outcomes and implicate proteostasis in the pathogenesis of pediatric choroid plexus tumors
  • January 2021 Journal of Neuro-Oncology
    DOI: 10.1007/s11060-020-03694-3
    Authors:
    Nada Amer, Hala Taha, Dina Hesham, Shahenda El-Naggar

  • Detection of KIAA1549-BRAF Fusion Transcripts in Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded Pediatric Low-Grade Gliomas
  • August 2011 The Journal of molecular diagnostics: JMD 13(6):669-77
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoldx.2011.07.002
    Authors:
    Yongji Tian, Benjamin Rich, Natalie Vena, Justin M Craig, Laura E Macconaill, Veena Rajaram, Stewart Goldman, Hala Taha, Madeha Mahmoud, Memet Ozek, Aydin Sav, Janina Longtine, Neal I Lindeman, Levi A Garraway, Azra Ligon, Charles D Stiles, Sandro Santagata, Jennifer A Chan, Mark W Kieran, Keith L Ligon

  • MicroRNA Expression in Low- and High-Grade Gliomas in Pediatric Patients and Correlation with Matrix Metalloproteinase Expression
  • October 2018 Journal of Molecular and Genetic Medicine: an International
    Journal of Biomedical Research 12(4)
    DOI: 10.4172/1747-0862.1000370
    Authors:
    Dina Yehia, Hala Taha, Marwa Tantawy

  • Management of pediatric craniopharyngioma: 10-year experience from high-flow center
  • February 2021 Child’s Nervous System 37(2)
    DOI: 10.1007/s00381-020-04833-x
    Authors:
    Abd El Rahman Enayet, Mostafa M.E. Atteya, Hala Taha, Mohamed Zaghloul, Amal Refaat, Eslam Maher, Amal Mosaab Abdelaziz, Mohamed Ahmed El Beltagy

  • Genomic analysis of diffuse pediatric low-grade gliomas identifies recurrent oncogenic truncating rearrangements in the transcription factor MYBL1
  • April 2013 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110(20)
    DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1300252110
    Authors:
    Lori Ramkissoon, Peleg M Horowitz, Justin M Craig, Shakti H. Ramkissoon, Benjamin Rich, Steven Schumacher, Aaron McKenna, Michael Lawrence, Guillaume Bergthold, Priscilla Brastianos, Barbara Tabak, Matthew D Ducar, Paul Van hummelen, Laura E Macconaill, Tina Pouissant-Young, Yoon-Jae Cho, Hala Taha, Madeha Mahmoud, Daniel C Bowers, Linda R Margraf, Uri Tabori, Cynthia Hawkins, Roger J Packer, D Ashley Hill, Scott L Pomeroy, Charles G Eberhart, Ian F Dunn, Liliana C Goumnerova, Gad Getz, Jennifer A Chan, Sandro Santagata, William C Hahn, Charles D Stiles, Azra Ligon, Mark W Kieran, Rameen Beroukhim, Keith L Ligon

  • Management of pediatric CNS meningiomas: CCHE-57357 experience in 39 cases
  • August 2019 Child’s Nervous System 35(6)
    DOI: 10.1007/s00381-019-04156-6
    Authors:
    Mohamed Ahmed El Beltagy, Abdelrhman Enayet, Mostafa M.A.Atteya, Mohamed Reda Rady, Amal Refaat, Hala Taha, Soha Ahmed, Amal Mosaab Abdelaziz

  • Surgical and clinical aspects of cerebellar pilomyxoid-spectrum astrocytomas in children
  • February 2014 Child’s Nervous System 30(6)
    DOI: 10.1007/s00381-014-2366-y
    Authors:
    Mohamed Ahmed El Beltagy, Mostafa M.E. Atteya, Alaa El Haddad, Madiha Awad, Hala Taha, Mohamed Kamal,Sherif Abou El Naga

  • Phthisis Bulbi: Clinical and Pathologic Findings in Retinoblastoma
  • April 2015 Fetal and Pediatric Pathology 34(3)
    DOI: 10.3109/15513815.2015.1014951
    Authors:
    Hala Taha, Hoda Z Amer, Hosam El-Zomor, Adel Aleieldin, Radwa Nour, Rokayya Konsowa, Wael Zekri, Enas El Nadi, Ahmad Samir AlFaar

  • Building a State of Art Biorepository by Hybridizing Electronic Data Capture Systems in a Limited Resource Country
  • May 2014
    Conference: The International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories Annual Meeting At: Orlando, USA
    Authors:
    Sameera Ezzat, Rania Labib, Mahmoud Mostafa, Ahmad Samir AlFaar, Mohamed Sabry Bakry, Khaled Shaaban, Hala Taha, Sherif Abou Naga

  • Exome sequencing identifies BRAF mutations in papillary craniopharyngiomas
  • January 2014 Nature Genetics 46(2)
    DOI: 10.1038/ng.2868
    Authors:
    Priscilla Brastianos, Amaro Taylor-Weiner,Peter E Manley, Robert Jones, Dora Dias-Santagata, Aaron R Thorner, Michael Lawrence, Fausto J Rodriguez, Lindsay A Bernardo, Laura Schubert, Ashwini Sunkavalli, Nick Shillingford, Monica L Calicchio, Hart G.W. Lidov, Hala Taha, María Martínez-Lage, Mariarita Santi, Phillip B Storm, John Y K Lee, James N Palmer, Nithin Adappa, R Michael Scott, Ian F Dunn, Edward R Laws, Chip Stewart, Keith L Ligon, Mai P Hoang, Paul Van hummelen, William C Hahn, David N Louis, Adam Resnick, Mark W Kieran, Gad Getz, Sandro Santagata