Rayane Dennaoui
4th Year 

Dissertation Mentor: Kay-Uwe Wagner, Ph.D.

Research focus: Investigating the biological and clinical roles of JAK/STAT signaling in pancreatic adenocarcinoma and mammary cancer initiation, progression, and metastasis using genetically engineered mouse models.

Grants/awards/scholarships:
2022 - 2023 NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein Research Training Recipient (T32-CA009531), Wayne State University
2021 - 2022 NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein Research Training Recipient (T32-CA009531), Wayne State University
2019 Cancer Biology Director's Award, Wayne State University School of Medicine
2019 Cancer Biology Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
2019 - 2020 IBS Fellowship

Publications:
Al Hassan M, Fakhoury I, El Masri Z, Ghazale N, Dennaoui R, El Atat O, Kanaan A, El-Sibai M. Metformin Treatment Inhibits Motility and Invasion of Glioblastoma Cancer Cells. Analytical cellular pathology (Amsterdam).  2018;2018:5917470.

Education:

2018 M.S. in Cell and Molecular Biology, Lebanese American University, Byblos, Lebanon
2014 B.S. in Biology, Lebanese American University, Byblos, Lebanon

Hometown: Tripoli, Lebanon

Birthplace: Boston, MA