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Molecular biologist & cancer researcher with 10 years of training and expertise in translational cancer research.

Profile Summary

10 years of post-PhD experience that includes project management, expertise in patient-tailored assay development, best practice human specimen handling, and data linkage. Has special interest in developing minimally invasive approaches for cancer detection to improve cancer diagnostics and care and is currently working to develop blood tests for monitoring the presence of circulating tumour material in patients’ blood.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Molecular Biology
• ☆ Biomarkers
• ☆ Genetics
• ☆ Microarrays
• ☆ Omics
• ☆ Genomics
• ☆ PCR
• ☆ Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)
• ☆ Genome Sequencing
• ☆ Exome Sequencing
• ☆ Cell Biology
• ☆ Cell-Based Assays
• ☆ Cytochemistry
• ☆ Gene Regulation
• ☆ Data Analysis
• ☆ Data Collection
• ☆ Statistics
• ☆ Applied Statistics
• ☆ Regression Analysis
• ☆ Multivariate Analysis
• ☆ Nonlinear Regression
• ☆ Correlation Analysis
• ☆ Medical Statistics
• ☆ Cell Culture
• ☆ Cell Banking
• ☆ Cytometry
• ☆ SPSS
• ☆ Excel
• ☆ In vitro Diagnostics
• ☆ Biomarker Analysis
• ☆ Clinical Trials
• ☆ IRB Applications
• ☆ Patient Recruitment
• ☆ Clinical Data Management
• ☆ Clinical Trials Data Analysis
• ☆ Pediatric Medicine
• ☆ Women's Health
• ☆ Breast Cancer
• ☆ Oncology
• ☆ Precision Medicine
• ☆ Pediatric Oncology
• ☆ Clinical Laboratory Science
• ☆ Blood Banking & Transfusion Medicine
• ☆ Histopathology
• ☆ Tissue Microarray
• ☆ Medical Sciences
• ☆ Cancer Research
• ☆ Cancer Biology
• ☆ Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
• ☆ Hypothesis
• ☆ Peer Review
• ☆ Research Methodology
• ☆ Meta-Research
• ☆ Feasibility Studies
• ☆ Literature Search
• ☆ Regulatory Writing
• ☆ Clinical Trial Documentation
• ☆ Clinical Trial Protocol Writing
• ☆ Clinical Study Reports
• ☆ Technical & Scientific Writing
• ☆ Manuscript & Journal Article Writing
• ☆ Experimental Protocols
• ☆ SOP & Protocol Writing
• ☆ Literature Review
• ☆ Systematic Literature Review
• ☆ Scientific Proofreading & Editing
• ☆ Proofreading & Editing
• ☆ Grant Writing
• ☆ Project Management

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI
• Product Development

Writing Technical Writing

Research Market Research, Meta-Research, Feasibility Study, Fact Checking, Gap Analysis, Systematic Literature Review

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Statistical Analysis

Product Development Product Validation

Work Experience

Senior Research Officer

Children's Cancer Research Unit, The Children's Hospital at Westmead

July 2021 - Present

Research Officer

Children's Cancer Research Unit

July 2017 - Present

Senior Research Assistant

Sheba Medical Center

January 2012 - August 2016

Education

PhD in Biology (Biology)

Technion Israel Institute of Technology Faculty of Biology

October 2005 - July 2011

BA in Molecular Biochemistry (Chemistry)

Technion Israel Institute of Technology

October 2002 - October 2005

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Smadar Kahana-Edwin, Lucy E. Cain, Geoffrey McCowage, Artur Darmanian, Dale Wright, Anna Mullins, Federica Saletta, Jonathan Karpelowsky (2021). Neuroblastoma Molecular Risk-Stratification of DNA Copy Number and ALK Genotyping via Cell-Free Circulating Tumor DNA Profiling . Cancers.

Smadar Kahana-Edwin, Lucy E. Cain, Geoffrey McCowage, Artur Darmanian, Dale Wright, Anna Mullins, Federica Saletta, Jonathan Karpelowsky (2021). Neuroblastoma Molecular Risk-Stratification of DNA Copy Number and <i>ALK</i> Genotyping via Cell-Free Circulating Tumor DNA Profiling . Cancers.

Smadar Kahana‐Edwin, Geoffrey McCowage, Lucy Cain, Federica Saletta, Aysen Yuksel, Nicole Graf, Jonathan Karpelowsky(2020). Exploration of CTNNB1 ctDNA as a putative biomarker for hepatoblastoma . Pediatric Blood & Cancer. 67. (11). Wiley

(2020). Exploration of CTNNB1 ctDNA as a putative biomarker for hepatoblastoma . Pediatric Blood & Cancer.

(2020). TNFR2+ TILs are significantly associated with improved survival in triple-negative breast cancer patients . Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy.

(2020). ESR1 mutations are frequent in newly diagnosed metastatic and loco-regional recurrence of endocrine-treated breast cancer and carry worse prognosis. Breast Cancer Research.

Dadiani M, Bossel Ben-Moshe N, Paluch-Shimon S, Perry G, Balint N, Marin I, Pavlovski A, Morzaev D, Kahana-Edwin S, Yosepovich A, et al.(2016). Tumor Evolution Inferred by Patterns of microRNA Expression through the Course of Disease, Therapy, and Recurrence in Breast Cancer . Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

Kahana-Edwin S, Stark M, Kassir Y(2013). Multiple MAPK cascades regulate the transcription of IME1, the master transcriptional activator of meiosis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae . PloS one.

Kahana S, Pnueli L, Kainth P, Sassi HE, Andrews B, Kassir Y(2010). Functional dissection of IME1 transcription using quantitative promoter-reporter screening . Genetics.