Galina Gabriely, PhD

Galina Gabriely, PhD, Brigham & Women's Hospital

Education:

• PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology from Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2006

Fellowships:

• Research Fellow, Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, 2006 – 2007
• Research Fellow, Krichevsky Laboratory, Center for Neurologic Diseases, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, 2007 – 2009

Research Interests:

Dr. Galina Gabriely started studying the functions of microRNAs in glioma in 2007 with great interest and enthusiasm. Since that time, she has accumulated solid knowledge and experience in a variety of approaches that are applied to investigate the role of microRNAs in glioma models. In her first study she identified the mechanism of function of miR-21 in glioma invasion (Gabriely et al., MCB, 2008). Then, Gabriely focused on miR-10b role in gliomagenesis. As she has found, miR-10b is not expressed in normal brain but highly upregulated in glioma tissues, where it is involved in gliomagenesis by apoptosis prevention and increase of glioma cell growth (Gabriely et al., Cancer Research, 2011). Gabriely’s interests lie in further studying microRNA in glioma by exploring their role in immunosuppression of these tumors, utilizing various in vitro and in vivo glioma models. Specifically, Gabriely would like to focus on investigation of monocyte-mediated glioma pathogenesis and whether microRNA modulation may activate monocytes for glioma elimination.