{"entity":{"id":"ali-taher","kind":"person","name":"Ali Taher","aka":[],"tldr":"Physician who directs the Naef K. Basile Cancer Institute, the multidisciplinary cancer centre of the American University of Beirut Medical Center in Lebanon.","summary":"Ali Taher (MD, PhD, FRCP) is Director of the Naef K. Basile Cancer Institute (NKBCI) at the American University of Beirut Medical Center. In his director's message he describes the institute as 'an exciting and growing institute with leading clinicians, educators, and scientists working together to improve patient care', with the aim of reducing the burden of cancer in Lebanon and the region. NKBCI operates as a multidisciplinary cancer centre within AUBMC, with radiation oncology, pathology, laboratory and clinical research units, holds JCI, Magnet, CAP and JACIE accreditations, and runs basic, translational, clinical and population research alongside community outreach on prevention and early detection.","asOf":"2026-09-10","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_T._Taher","links":[{"label":"Source: NKBCI institute page naming the director","url":"https://sites.aub.edu.lb/aubmcacc/nkbci/"}],"tags":["leadership","clinician-scientist","comprehensive-cancer-centre"],"related":[],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["aubmc-basile-cancer-institute"],"pathways":[],"terms":["radiotherapy","early-detection-term"],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"role":"Director, Naef K. Basile Cancer Institute, American University of Beirut Medical Center","institutionId":"aubmc-basile-cancer-institute","specialisms":["Haematology","Oncology","Cancer centre management"],"profiles":[{"label":"NKBCI director's message","url":"https://sites.aub.edu.lb/aubmcacc/aboutus/nkbci-dean-message/"},{"label":"PubMed","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Taher+A%5BAuthor%5D+AND+Beirut"}],"papers":[{"title":"Hepatocellular carcinoma as an emerging morbidity in the thalassemia syndromes: A comprehensive review","journal":"Cancer","year":2016,"doi":"10.1002/cncr.30462"}]},"route":"/people/ali-taher/","neighbours":{"institution":[{"id":"aubmc-basile-cancer-institute","kind":"institution","name":"American University of Beirut Medical Center / Naef K. Basile Cancer Institute","route":"/institutions/aubmc-basile-cancer-institute/"}],"term":[{"id":"early-detection-term","kind":"term","name":"Early detection","route":"/terms/early-detection-term/"},{"id":"radiotherapy","kind":"term","name":"Radiotherapy","route":"/terms/radiotherapy/"}]}}