Sabrina Hafeez
Education:
B.A. University of Colorado at Boulder (2021)
Current Position:
3rd Year MSTP
1st Year Graduate Student
Advisor:
Ben Martin
Graduate Program:
Molecular & Cellular Pharmacology
Research Interests:
Within the field of cancer biology, I am interested in multi-disciplinary and translational approaches to develop novel therapeutics for disease treatment. Throughout my undergraduate career, I investigated the impact of heme catabolism on triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) immune suppression by manipulating tumor-cell secreting enzymes and investigating the impact on macrophages. In the future, I hope to contribute to better understanding health disparities in breast cancer in order to effectively address them both in the clinic and at the bench.
Publications:
Hafeez, SA and Williams, MM, Hammond, N, Christenson, JL, O’Neill, KO and Richer JK. Reversing an Oncogenic Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition Program in Breast Cancer Reveals Actionable Immune-Suppressive Pathways. Pharmaceuticals (Basel). 2021 Nov 2;14(11):1122. doi: 10.3390/ph14111122.
Williams, MM, Christenson, JL, O’Neill, KI, Hafeez, SA, Ihle, CL, Spoelstra, NS, Slansky, JE, and Richer JK. MicroRNA-200c restoration reveals a cytokine profile to enhance M1 macrophage polarization in breast cancers. NPJ Breast Cancer. 2021 May 27;7(1):64. doi: 10.1038/s41523-021-00273-1.
