iCAN science seminar on March 6 with Dr. Arafath (Rafa) Najumudeen

You are warmly welcome to iCAN science seminar on 

Wed 6.3.2024 at 13:30-14:30, Biomedicum, seminar room 1-2 or online. 

Speaker: Dr. Arafath (Rafa) Najumudeen, FIMM, Institute of Biotechnology, HiLIFE, University of Helsinki

Title: KRAS rocks – Role in metabolism, cancer progression, and therapy resistance

Dr. Arafath (Rafa) Najumudeen received his PhD from Åbo Akademi University, studying oncogenic signaling proteins. He did his postdoctoral work in Prof. Owen Sansom’s lab in CRUK Scotland Institute, describing spatial organization of metabolism in colorectal cancer using preclinical mouse models. Rafa is currently an academy fellow, and his lab focuses on the metabolic and mutational heterogeneity of intestinal stem cells and cancer using spatial-omics approaches and preclinical mouse models.

Coffee will be served before the seminar.

Link for those joining on Zoom

https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/64804986682?pwd=ME8rOVhucnQ5YXE1VVdpck5BN25BZz09

Meeting ID: 648 0498 6682 Passcode: 366409

For more information, please contact ican@helsinki.fi