PhD student
Rana earned her bachelor’s degree in BPharm in 2018. Working as a pharmacist and dealing closely with medications and their side effects motivated her to pursue a master’s degree in Cancer and Therapeutics at Barts Cancer Institute, funded by the UK Chevening Scholarship in 2021. Her passion for cancer immunotherapy and research led her to gain experience across several laboratories, notably at the Cairo Children Cancer Hospital Foundation (57357) in developing anti CD19 CAR-T cells for hematological malignancies. Her interest in extracellular vesicles (EVs) later grew during her time in Prof. Mohamed Ghoneim’s lab at the Urology and Nephrology Center, Mansoura University. She then combined both interests: CAR-T cell therapy and EVs in an internship at Universität Duisburg-Essen, supported by the DAAD-Stiftung: Prof. Dr. Mahfouz Kassem Scholarship during a three-month internship. Now, she is further investigating CAR-TEVs as her PhD project. Outside of the lab, Rana enjoys aimless walks, photography for her personal blog, and visits to art museums, especially works by her favorite artist, Claude Monet. She also likes to heat it up with padel matches from time to time
