Asmaa El-Kenawi, PhD (Principal Investigator)
I am a Pharmacologist and an Immunometabolism enthusiastic. I am obsessed with applying Physical Sciences perspectives and approaches to cancer therapy.
Education
PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences (Pharmacology), Faculty of Pharmacy, Mansoura University, Egypt & Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, USA.
Postdoctoral Fellow in Immuno-metabolism, Physical Sciences in Oncology Program. Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL.
Google Scholar Publons Profile (Reviewer for Gut, Journal of Immunology, Journal of Hepatology, Oncoimmunology and others).
I am passionate about education, public outreach and communicating science to general audience. Please take a moment to stop by one of the highlights I wrote for Science Translational Medicine in 2019 and 2020 (El-Kenawi, Science Translational Medicine).
I am a former eLife Ambassador and Member of Diversity in Peer Review Initiative. Interested on learning more about our initiative? Check our articles: Include junior researchers in peer review & An ECR’s guide to peer review.
I am also interested in enhancing Cancer Research capacity in low-middle-income countries. I was happy to be selected among a wonderful list of young investigators for the 2022 NCI Early Career Investigator Day (ECID ) Steering Committee. The ECID was held on Tuesday, March 22, 2022 (9AM-12PM EDT) as a pre-conference session of the Annual Symposium on Global Cancer Research, which was held in conjunction with the Consortium of Universities in Global Health annual meeting.
Jennifer Rooks (Research Assistant)
Jenny recently graduated from Indiana University Bloomington with a degree in neuroscience and minors in biology and Spanish. During college, she discovered her love for working with children. That’s why her goal is to attend medical school and focus on Pediatric medicine. In our lab, Jenny is interested to understand metabolic pathways since metabolic abnormalities underlie a lot of disease in children. Outside of academics, she enjoys spending time with her friends and have recently picked up gardening as a hobby.
