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Ihab Younis is a Teaching Professor and Head of the Biological Sciences Program at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar. He has a Ph.D. in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology from Ohio State University and has earned both an M.S. and B.S. in Biology from the American University of Beirut. His research focuses on post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression, particularly the intricacies of intron splicing. Younis's laboratory employs a blend of traditional and advanced technologies to characterize splicing regulation in normal and diseased cells. He has developed methodologies to discover new drugs that could regulate splicing in cancer cells. His work has implications for understanding the cellular mechanisms of cancer and has contributed to the identification of minor introns that act as molecular switches in gene expression. Younis has published extensively, with notable studies appearing in prestigious journals such as Nature and eLife, addressing the mechanisms by which splicing errors can lead to diseases, including cancer.
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