Dr Amina Zoubeidi, Ph.D
Position:
- Assistant Professor, Urologic Sciences, The Vancouver Prostate Centre, University of British Columbia
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Biography:
Dr Zoubeidi’s major research focus is to uncover molecular mechanisms of prostate cancer progression to the castrate-resistant stage and metastatic disease with a special interest on elucidating mechanisms of epithelial mesenchymal transition.
She elucidates diverse mechanisms involving stress activated proteins, Hsp27, Clusterin, and tyrosine kinases Lyn and Fer in androgen independent progression.
Dr Zoubeidi recently developed pre-clinical models of Enzalutamide resistant tumours and cell lines and studying mechanisms of resistance to Enzalutamide including emergence of cancer like stem cells and neuroendocrine phenotype. She has an extensive expertise in cell signalling, molecular and cellular biology and in vivo efficacy studies.
Treatment resistance, stem cells, EMT, signaling, Androgen receptor.
