Hava Karsenty Avraham, PhD

Associate Professor – Research
Center for Drug Discovery, Northern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Dr. Avraham, a senior Professor at the Center for Drug Discovery in Northeastern University has extensive experience in cancer biology, cell biology, immunology, signal transduction, and in vivo mice models for cancer pathophysiology. She has more than 30 years of experience in basic science and translational research in the oncology field, which has resulted in more than 140 peer-reviewed publications/articles. She has an expertise in the areas of breast cancer progression, signaling pathways, cancer metastasis, and vascular biology, with the focus on molecular mechanisms underpinning cancer progression and breast metastasis development in the brain. She is very passionate about breast cancer survivors, particularly young breast cancer patients, and in the development of new treatments and cures as well as new early diagnostic methods for young patients with breast cancer.