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Our lab is housed within the Department of Biology in the College of Science and Math on the campus of California State University Northridge (CSUN).

Broadly, we seek to characterize the molecular mechanisms and functions of genes that play critical roles in cancer and tissue regeneration. Our work integrates molecular/cellular biology, signaling biochemistry, animal models of normal development and disease, and microscopy imaging to answer questions in these fields.

ITGA1 is a pre-malignant biomarker that promotes therapy resistance and metastatic potential in pancreatic cancer. Gharibi and Kim et al. Nature Scientific Reports 2017

A novel method for RNA extraction from FFPE samples reveals significant differences in biomarker expression between orthotopic and subcutaneous pancreatic cancer patient-derived xenografts. Hoover et al. Oncotarget 2016

Ascending the PEAK1 toward targeting TGFbeta during cancer progression: recent advances and future perspectives. Runa et al. Cancer Cell and Microenvironment 2016

Cellular and Molecular Aspects of Pancreatic Cancer. Gharibi et al., Acta Histochemica 2016