Amir Munir, MD

Title(s)HS Clinical Instructor, Medicine
SchoolSchool of Medicine
Address35 Medical Center Way, #212
San Francisco CA 94143
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    Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MOA.B.2012Chemistry
    Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OHM.D.2017
    Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA2020Internal Medicine Residency
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    2015  - 2016Stanley Sarnoff Fellowship in Cardiovascular Research
    2017Myron F. Kanter and Lawrence J. Kanter Endowment Award
    2022  - 2024Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub Physician-Scientist Fellowship
    2024  - 2026Sarnoff Scholar Career Development Award

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    I am a cardiologist with a specialization in cardio-oncology and immunology. The specialty of cardio-oncology is focused on the cardiovascular care of cancer patients and survivors who have pre-existing cardiovascular disease, or who may have developed cardiovascular disease from their specific cancer therapies.

    I am also a physician-scientist with a research focus on elucidating the mechanisms of cancer therapy cardiotoxicities. New, targeted cancer immunotherapies called immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) can cause a rare, but fatal, condition called ICI myocarditis. I am currently defining the essential immune cell populations and pathways of ICI myocarditis in pre-clinical models and human tissue samples.

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    1. Immune-checkpoint inhibitor-mediated myocarditis: CTLA4, PD1 and LAG3 in the heart. Nat Rev Cancer. 2024 Aug; 24(8):540-553. Munir AZ, Gutierrez A, Qin J, Lichtman AH, Moslehi JJ. PMID: 38982146.
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    2. Multi-Disciplinary Management in Rectal Cancer Survivorship: A Clinical Practice Review. J Gastrointest Cancer. 2023 Dec; 54(4):1102-1115. Chan H, Savoie MB, Munir A, Moslehi J, Anwar M, Laffan A, Rowen T, Salmon R, Varma M, Van Loon K. PMID: 36622517; PMCID: PMC10754749.
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    3. The cardiac-enriched microprotein mitolamban regulates mitochondrial respiratory complex assembly and function in mice. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 02 08; 119(6). Makarewich CA, Munir AZ, Bezprozvannaya S, Gibson AM, Young Kim S, Martin-Sandoval MS, Mathews TP, Szweda LI, Bassel-Duby R, Olson EN. PMID: 35101990; PMCID: PMC8833175.
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    4. The DWORF micropeptide enhances contractility and prevents heart failure in a mouse model of dilated cardiomyopathy. Elife. 2018 10 09; 7. Makarewich CA, Munir AZ, Schiattarella GG, Bezprozvannaya S, Raguimova ON, Cho EE, Vidal AH, Robia SL, Bassel-Duby R, Olson EN. PMID: 30299255; PMCID: PMC6202051.
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    5. MOXI Is a Mitochondrial Micropeptide That Enhances Fatty Acid β-Oxidation. Cell Rep. 2018 06 26; 23(13):3701-3709. Makarewich CA, Baskin KK, Munir AZ, Bezprozvannaya S, Sharma G, Khemtong C, Shah AM, McAnally JR, Malloy CR, Szweda LI, Bassel-Duby R, Olson EN. PMID: 29949755; PMCID: PMC6066340.
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    6. Synthetic lethality of Chk1 inhibition combined with p53 and/or p21 loss during a DNA damage response in normal and tumor cells. Oncogene. 2013 Jan 31; 32(5):577-88. Origanti S, Cai SR, Munir AZ, White LS, Piwnica-Worms H. PMID: 22430210; PMCID: PMC3381958.
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