Dr. Salah Elias

Biography

Salah Elias holds a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Rouen, France, where he investigated the mechanisms of secretory vesicle biogenesis and trafficking. His doctoral work was supervised by Professors Maite Montero-Hadjadje and Youssef Anouar. Following this, he undertook postdoctoral research in Dr. Sandrine Humbert's lab at the Curie Institute, France, where he demonstrated that huntingtin and kinesin-1 regulate spindle orientation and apical polarity in mammary epithelial cells during their development and homeostasis. He subsequently joined Professor Elizabeth Robertson's lab at the Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, where he identified a new subset of mammary stem cells that express Blimp1 and are critical for gland morphogenesis and homeostasis. In 2017, Salah was appointed as a Lecturer in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Southampton. In 2018, he was awarded the MRC New Investigator Research Grant and the Wellcome Trust Seed Award to establish his own laboratory focused on discovering the mechanisms of oriented cell division in normal mammary epithelium and understanding cell division defects in unique breast cancer cells.

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