Asma Amleh
Associate Professor
Department of Biology
The American University in Cairo
Egypt
Biography
Asma Amleh is an associate professor of biology at The American University in Cairo. She received a BSc in biology and chemistry at The American University of Beirut, Lebanon (1983), and a PhD in biology from McGill University in Montreal, Canada (1997). Professor Amleh has been a research fellow at the laboratory of cellular and developmental biology, NIDDK, and a research associate at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. She has also been an instructor at the Department of Molecular Medicine, Institute of Biotechnology, at the University of Texas Health Science Center and a senior research scientist at the Developmental Biology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in NY.
Research Interest
To define genetic markers implicated in the development of cancer To Explore new therapeutic approaches to the treatment of cancer To pursue questions related to the molecular/cellular/ developmental and differentiation processes including stem cell research
Publications
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• Ahmed M, Ghabriel M, Asma A (2017) Enrichment, Propagation, and Characterization of Mouse Testis-Derived Mesenchymal Stromal Cells. Cellular Reprogramming 19: 35-43. • Eman EZ, Sarah K, Mahmoud EM, Asma A (2017) Knockdown of COBRA1 decreases the proliferation and migration of hepatocellular carcinoma cells. Oncol Rep 37: 1896-1906. • Amina S, Asma A, Selim K, Arthur RB (2017) Population ecology, reproduction and locomotion of the sand dollar Sculpsitechinus auritus (Echinodermata; Echinoidea) in the Gulf of Suez, northern Red Sea. Marine Biodiversity. DOI: 10.1007/s12526-016-0571-5. • Aya Y, Heba S, Alaa A, Asma A (2016) The Potential Involvement of the Cofactor of BRCA1 in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Pathogenesisâ€Advances In Modern Oncology Research. 12 pages. DOI: 10.18282/amor.v2.i4.129. • Haihui P, Xiayan Z, Xiaowen Z, Mohamed A, Jianlong S, et al. (2015) Translational Initiation at a Non-AUG Start Codon For Human and Mouse Negative Elongation Factor-B. PLoS ONE 10: e0127422. Doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0127422.
