Noura Al-Hajaj.
Background
Noura received her MScA degree in Biotechnology at McGill University, Montreal, Canada in 2010. She started her summer research project at Dr. Maysinger’s lab in May 2009. In December 2010 she became a research assistant in the lab.
Research highlight
Noura is interested to study (i) how different nanoparticles are being internalized into different cell lines (ii) how does the microenvironment surrounding cells affects nanoparticles uptake and (iii) how does some low-generation dendrimers (G0 and G1) exert anti-inflammatory-like effect in stressed/ activated cells. She is investigating that by studying the changes in signal transduction pathways inside the cell i.e the activation of kinases (PI3K, MAPK, etc), the translocation of transcription factors (NFKB, FOXO, etc) and the release of inflammatory cytokines (TNF-a, IL1ß, etc) when cells exposed to various insults/ nanoparicles.
Publications