Homa Ghalei
PhD
Dr. Ghalei's lab is working on deciphering the role of non-coding RNAs in cancer.
Titles and Roles
- Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry
- Emory University School of Medicine
- Research Program
- Cell and Molecular Biology
Biography
Homa Ghalei, PhD, is associate professor in the Department of Biochemistry at Emory University School of Medicine. Prior to joining the faculty at Emory in 2017, Dr. Ghalei held a research associate position in the Department of Cancer Biology at The Scripps Research Institute.
Dr. Ghalei is a member of the Cell and Molecular Biology Research Program at Winship Cancer Institute.
Education
Dr. Ghalei earned her MSc and PhD in Molecular Biology at Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (MPI-BPC) and the University of Göttingen in Germany. She then completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Cellular Biochemistry at MPI-BPC and Freie Universität Berlin.
Research
Dr. Ghalei’s lab is deciphering how an abundant and evolutionarily conserved class of small non-coding RNAs (snoRNAs) regulate gene expression by affecting ribosome production and translational control. Dysregulation of specific snoRNAs is associated with oncogenesis and tumor progression in leukemia, breast and lung cancers, among others. However, the molecular link between snoRNA dysregulation and cancer is largely unexplored providing a unique opportunity to examine the mechanisms that underpin this phenomenon and cause uncontrolled cellular growth.
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