Sercan Ergun
Ordu University, Turkey
Title: Through which pathway does trastuzumab and miR-122-5p combinatorial administration lead breast cancer cells to apoptosis: intrinsic or extrinsic pathway?
Biography
Biography: Sercan Ergun
Abstract
Sercan Ergun is working as Teaching Assistant in Ordu University and is about to finish his PhD in Department of Medical Biology and Genetics of Ondokuz Mayıs University. He was included as Researcher in a team studying briefly epigenetic changes in disease mechanisms of different types of cancers, including oncogenic/tumor suppressor gene and miRNA expression level changes, cell death mechanism analysis, development of some cancer therapy agents’ efficiencies via miRNAs. Now, he is part of a team studying in silico miRNA and ceRNA analysis, miRNA heterogenetiy, piRNA expression changes in different cancer types, especially urological cancers. He has many published many articles related to these studies. He and his team have conducted many studies on different diseases other than cancer, like Glanzmann's thrombasthenia, hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, immune thrombocytopenic purpura, familial mediterranean fever, βeta (β)-thalassemia, secondary hyperparathyroidism and he has many other articles on them.