A headshot photo of Sonikpreet Aulakh.

Sonikpreet Aulakh, MBBS, MD

Assistant Professor

Contact Information

Phone
304-598-4500
Address
PO Box 9162
64 Medical Center Dr. - HSC
Division of Hematology/Oncology (WVUCI)
3rd Floor Cancer Center, Room 3914
Morgantown, WV 26506

Affiliations

  • Department of Medicine
  • Department of Neuroscience
  • Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute

Graduate Training

  • MBBS, Shyam Shah Medical College, Rewa, India

Fellowships

  • Fellowship, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science
  • Residency, Wayne State University School of Medicine

Publications

Published Manuscripts

1. Sikander Ailawadhi, Kirtipal Bhatia, Sonikpreet Aulakh, Zahara Meghji, Asher ChananKhan. Equal Treatment and Outcomes for Everyone with Multiple Myeloma: Are We There Yet? Curr Hematol Malig Rep(2017)12:309.  
 
2. Karthikeyan Venkatachalam, Eyoel Abebe, Thitina Jimma, Dahlia Sano, Sonikpreet Aulakh, Mirela Titianu, Sarwan Kumar. Influence of BMI on the Length of Hospitalization and the Rate of Readmission. Chest (2014) Vol146, Issue 4, Supplement 2, October 2014, Page 552A.  
 
3. Prachi Jani, Salman Ahmed, Meghna Ailawadhi, Victoria Alegria, Jaso n Sluzevich, Meghna Ailawadhi, Sonikpreet Aulakh, Asher Chanan-Khan, Sikander Ailawadhi. Ibrutinib for the Management of Schnitzler Syndrome: A Novel Therapy for a Rare Condition. Journal of Oncology Practice 14, no. 6 (June 1 2018) 387-388. 
 
4. Carla Venegas-Borsellino, Sonikpreet Aulakh, Neal Bhutiani. Fasting and its Therapeutic Impact in Brain Tumors. Curr Surg Rep (2018) 6:12. 
 
5. Aneel Paulus, Alak Manna, Sharoon Akhtar, Samuel Paulus, Mayank Sharma, Marie Coignet, Jiang Liuyan, Vivek Roy, Thomas Witzig, Stephen Ansell, Sonikpreet Aulakh, Rami Manochakian, Sikander Ailawadhi, Asher Chanan-Khan , Taimur Sher. Targeting CD38 With Daratumumab Is Lethal to Waldenström Macroglobulinemia Cells. Br J Haematol., 2018 (in press). 
 
6. Alak Manna, Laura Lewis-Tuffin, Sonikpreet Aulakh, Sikander Ailawadhi, Taimur Sher, Asher Chanan- Khan, Aneel Paulus. “Using anti-CD38 immunotherapy to enhance antitumor T-cell immunity in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)”; J Immunol, 2018 (in press). 
 
7. Alak Manna, Sharoon Akhtar, Prachi Jani, Marie Coignet, Michael Heckman, Sonikpreet Aulakh, Zahara Meghji, Kritpal Bhatia, Taimur SherT, Victoria Alegria, Fabio Malavasi, Sikander Ailawadhi, Asher Chanan-Khan, Aneel Paulus. Targeting CD38 attenuates Bcell receptor signaling and enhances antileukemic activity of ibrutinib in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). 2018 (Communicated). 
 

Book Chapter

1.  Sonikpreet Aulakh and Asher Chanan-Khan. Primary cranial nervous system lymphoma. Schmidek and Sweet - Operative Neurosurgical Techniques. (Under review) 
 

Abstracts:

1. Sonikpreet Aulakh, Gulshan Oberoi, Sarwan Kumar. Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia with Venous Thromboembolism,a Common Complication of a Rare Disease. Blood Journal. 2014, Dec; 124(21): 4869 - 4869. 

2. Sonikpreet Aulakh, Gulshan Oberoi, Sarwan Kumar. Maggots' Infestation as a Predisposing Condition for Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia, a Newest Entity. Blood Journal. 2014, Dec; 124(21): 5021-5021.

3. Sonikpreet Aulakh, Alak Manna, Paula Schiapparelli, Sikander Ailawadhi, Aneel Paulus, Steven Rosenfeld, Asher Chanan-Khan, Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa.  CD38-targeted therapy in glioblastoma: A step forward. ASCO 2018 e14030.

4. Sonikpreet Aulakh, Michelle DeDeo, Joseph Free, Kyle Berdeguez, Steven Rosenfeld, Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, Asher Chanan-Khan, Sikander Ailawadhi. Association between treatment facility volume and mortality in patients with glioblastoma (GBM):  A large national analysis. J Clin Oncol 36, 2018 (suppl; abstr 2026)

5. Sonikpreet Aulakh, Alak Manna, Jennifer Jiang, Michelle Manske, Kerstin Wenzl, Andras Khoor , Anne Novak, Taimur Sher, Rami Manochakian, Vivek Roy, Asher Chanan-Khan, Sikander Ailawadhi, Aneel Paulus. Development of pre-clinical model of Bing-Neel syndrome. {Abstract submitted for International Waldenström Macroglobulinemia Workshop (IWWM), October 2018, NY NY}

6.  Sonikpreet Aulakh, Alak Manna, Jennifer Jiang, Michelle Manske, Kerstin Wenzl, Andras Khoor Anne Novak, Taimur Sher, Rami Manochakian, Vivek Roy, Asher ChananKhan1, Sikander Ailawadhi, Aneel Paulus. A novel patient-derived xenograft (PDX) model of Richters transformed Waldenström Macroglobulinemia. {Abstract submitted for International Waldenström Macroglobulinemia Workshop (IWWM), October 2018, NY NY}

7. Sonikpreet Aulakh, Alak Manna, Jennifer Jiang, Michelle Manske, Kerstin Wenzl, Andras Khoor, Anne Novak, Taimur Sher, Rami Manochakian, Vivek Roy, Asher Chanan-Khan, Sikander Ailawadhi, Aneel Paulus. Ibrutinib resistant Bing-Neel syndrome model - preclinical drug screening. {Abstract submitted for International Waldenström Macroglobulinemia Workshop (IWWM), October 2018, NY NY}

National Presentations

1. Cautious travelling of the world.  Plasmodium falciparum, a reason for admission. ACP, Michigan (2014). 

2. Paget-Schroetter Syndrome.  Effort Thrombosis Secondary to Subclavian Vein Anomaly SGIM, Michigan (2014).

3. Effective but underutilized L-carnitine as an antidote for Valproic acid toxicity. ACP Michigan (2014).

4. Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia with Venous Thromboembolism: Common complication of a rare disease. ACP Michigan (2014).

5. Extensive aortic thrombus in ulcerative colitis:  Common disease with unusual complication.  SGIM, California (2014).

6. Timely diagnosis of central post-stroke pain syndrome may reduce unwarranted interventions.  American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (ASRA), California (2014).

7. Cluster - tic syndrome:  a common yet overlooked entity.  ASRA, California (2014).

8. Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia with Venous Thromboembolism:  Common complication of a rare disease.  SGIM, California (2014).

9. Over - utilization of in-patient telemetry.  Michigan (2015).

10. Utilization of palliative care among patients with hematologic malignancies: an extensive national analysis to define trends and patterns.  National meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH), Atlanta Georgia (2017).

11. Daratumumab in Chronic lymphocytic leukemia.  International meeting – Lymphoma and Myeloma, New York, NY (2017).  12. Anti-CD38 targeted therapy in glioblastoma. American Academy of Neurology (AAN), San Francisco (2018). 13. CD38-targeted therapy in glioblastoma: A step forward. American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), Chicago (2018). 

12. Anti-CD38 targeted therapy in glioblastoma. American Academy of Neurology (AAN), San Francisco (2018).

13. CD38-targeted therapy in glioblastoma: A step forward. American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), Chicago (2018). 

14. Association between treatment facility volume and mortality in patients with glioblastoma (GBM): A large national analysis.  American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), Chicago (2018). 
 
International Presentations

1. GI as a source of brain clots: Crohn’s disease as a rare cause of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis WCIM, Seoul, PRK (2014). 2. Maggots' Infestation as a Predisposing Condition for Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia, a Newest Entity. WCIM, Seoul, PRK (2014). 3. Abiotrophia Defectiva Meningitis after Epidural Steroid Injection. SGIM, Toronto, Canada (2015).