University of Miami
Miami, United States
After graduating from Stony Brook University, with a degree in biochemistry, Regina Graham worked at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where she investigated the immediate early gene, c-fos and signal transduction pathways which was published in the journal Science. She received her doctorate in 2001 from Tulane University where she studied the role of sensory nerves in ozone-induced lung inflammation. Regina did her postdoctoral work in molecular and cellular pharmacology at the University of Miami where she focused on cardiovascular disease, therapeutic angiogenesis and spearheaded research on a novel breast cancer therapy. Dr. Graham is currently an assistant professor at the University of Miami in the department of neurosurgery and is the scientific advisor for the Mystic Force Foundation. Her research focuses on central nervous system tumors and the pediatric cancer, neuroblastoma. Using glioblastoma stem-like cell lines developed in the lab, she is investigating the potential of natural products, their analogs and novel compounds to induce cell death and interfere with cancer stem cell signaling pathways. In additionally, her research focuses on developing non-toxic carbon dots and their derivatives for use as multimodal imaging and drug delivery agents as novel cancer targeting therapies.