Hassan is an Associate Professor (tenure-track) of Neurological Surgery and Medicine at the University of Miami (UM), and Director of High Content Screening Core for Phenotypic Drug Discovery. He is a member of the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, the Katz Drug Discovery Center, and the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. Hassan's primary research interest is understanding the role of kinases in proper functioning of the central nervous system (CNS) and utilizing this knowledge to develop therapeutics that repair CNS damage (caused by injury or neurodegenerative disease). In addition to this, Hassan is active in the areas of nephrology and oncology. He also has pet interest in the subject of personalized cancer therapy, which he pursues with collaborators at the University of Pittsburg.
