We sincerely welcome Dr. Pinar Uysal-Onganer from University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Tumor. Her research experience involves a range of cell signalling mechanisms such as Wnt signalling, the functional and molecular aspects of cancer. She has worked at Imperial College London for 9 years as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. She has studied on voltage-gated sodium channel (VGSC) expression in metastatic disease at Prof Djamgoz’s laboratory and was first to demonstrate functional upregulation of VGSCs in human small-cell lung cancer, in vitro and in vivo. Then she started collaboration with Baroness Greenfield and demonstrated that an acetylcholinesterase-derived peptide has significant effects on metastatic behaviour of human breast cancer cell lines. Then, she has joined Dr Kypta's lab Prostate Cancer Group at Oncology Dept, Imperial College London and since then have been working on Wnt signalling and microRNAs in cancer. She became a Senior Fellow of HEA at 2018 and a Reader in Molecular Biology in 2022. She has been actively involved in fund-raising activities with charities such as the Cancer Research UK, Pancreatic Cancer UK and the Prostate Cancer Charity (PCC). She is an Athena Swan Coordinator and Cancer Research Group Lead at University of Westminster and run STEMM activities for local schools. We appreciate Dr. Pinar Uysal-Onganer for her participation and support.
June 5, 2024