Apoorva Uboveja, PhD

Dr. Apoorva Uboveja is a Postdoctoral Associate in Dr. Katherine Aird’s laboratory at UPMC Hillman Cancer Centre, University of Pittsburgh, USA. She completed her PhD in Biomedical Sciences from Dr.B.R.Ambedkar Centre for Biomedical Research, University of Delhi, India and her work was focused on elucidating p73 tumor suppressor dependent anti-metastatic pathways in colorectal cancer. During her postdoctoral studies, Dr. Uboveja is working in the field of ovarian cancer and studying how TCA cycle enzymes can play a major role in ovarian cancer metabolism. Specifically, her work focuses on the epigenetic role of IDH1 in Cyclin E-high Ovarian cancer metabolism.