People Biography

Ms. Aisha AlMulla is currently pursuing her Master's in Biological and Biomedical Sciences at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), and is working under the supervision of Dr. Essam Abdelalim of QBRI. She obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences (Cancer Biology) from the University of Westminster, London in 2017. She worked on exploring the role of Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition markers in HER2+ breast cancer cells, mainly focusing on the expression levels of the mesenchymal marker SNAIL involved in metastasis of primary cancer cells to secondary organs.

She gained brief experience from working on differentiation and maintenance of iPSCs in Dr. Essam Abdelalim’s laboratory in 2014. Keeping in view the promising applications of stem cells in disease treatment, she is currently working on the generation and differentiation of pluripotent stem cells to hepatocytes in the same lab, as a part of a bigger project that explores the pathogenesis and underlying molecular mechanisms of insulin resistance and diabetes.