A doctoral researcher, skilled in academic and medical Research in the areas of nanotechnology, biomaterials, functional genomics, cell & molecular biology, biochemistry, and cancer research. Biography: Salma Younes received her BSc and MSc in Biomedical Science at Qatar University (Doha Qatar) in 2017 and 2020, respectively. She worked as a research assistant (Biomedical Research Center, Qatar University, Doha Qatar), laboratory technologist at Qatar Biobank, and is currently working as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at Qatar University (Doha, Qatar). Research interests: Her research interests lie in the field of cancer prevention and treatment, including basic and applied research on cancer, cancer diagnostics, biomarkers identification and validation, drug screen and validation using in vitro and in vivo models and in the development of novel combinatorial therapies, investigating the effects of anti-cancer drugs, drug derivatives, co-drugs & pro-drugs, studying different types of cell death (apoptosis, necrosis, and autophagy), identifying and validating novel therapeutic targets, investigating anti-cancer activity of pipeline therapeutics; genomics/epigenomics, chaperone biology. Her current research is mainly focussed on the applications of 2D nanomaterials for biomedical purposes. Specialties and research skills: Cell culture experience and molecular mechanism work, RT-PCR, mitochondrial membrane potential, ROS levels, gene and protein expression analysis, In vitro functional screening assays (viability (MTT, CCK-8), apoptosis etc.), FACS analysis (cell cycle), analysis instruments (UV-vis, fluorescence spectroscopy, flow cytometry), computer-based data acquisition and analysis, and animal work (Zebrafish/toxicology)