News

The latest paper from lab, titled “Lysyl oxidase inhibition disrupts mitochondrial homeostasis to create vulnerability to ferroptosis in TNBC”, made the news within the first week of publication! You can read some of these news articles and learn more about our impactful research: A ‘one-two punch’ against aggressive breast cancer Read more

Ana, a scholar in the BLOCKS joined program of MUSC Hollings Cancer Center and the College of Charleston, successfully completed her program and presented her research at a poster session.

Congratulations to Kubra for receiving two awards at MUSC Research Day: the 1st Place Oral Presentation Award and the Excellence Beyond Boundaries Award.

Kubra presented her poster in AACR Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics in Boston, MA.

Ana is one of only 10 undergraduate students selected from the College of Charleston for the B.L.O.C.K.S. (Building Learning Opportunities for Cancer, Knowledge, and Success) program. She will be gaining valuable experience and knowledge in our lab. Congratulations to her!

Our PI, Dr. Ozgur Sahin, has accepted the position of Program Director of Science Translation for the Hollings Advisory for Rapid Translation (HART). In this newly created role, he will lead and support strategic initiatives to advance the translation of basic science into investigator-initiated clinical research. We sincerely congratulate him Read more

PhD candidate Kubra was awarded the Hollings Fellowship for her research titled “Targeting Triple-Negative Breast Cancer with High Chromosomal Instability.”

Congratulations to Kubra on receiving a travel award to present her research at the AACR-NCI-EORTC International Conference on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics 2025 in Boston, MA.

Kubra presented a poster entitled “Targeting TACC3 inhibits metastasis in breast cancer with centrosome amplification“. Ozge presented a poster entitled “LINC00152-regulated PDE4D mediates drug resistance and metastasis in highly aggressive breast cancer“.

Baris has been accepted into the Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program at MUSC, wishing him great success in his doctoral journey.