Biography:

Mrs. Nauf Bou Antoun is a part-time Ph.D. researcher in the department of Biomolecular Sciences at Kingston University London working under the supervision of Dr. Athina-Myrto Chioni. Her research focuses on investigating the factors that underlie the mechanism of drug resistance in cervical cancer to help design therapeutic strategies to overcome resistance and improve the treatment of this disease.  In 2017 she held the position of visiting researcher for 6 months in the Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology (IRDB) building at Imperial College London. During this period, she worked on a glioblastoma project from which she gained valuable skills in a wide range of laboratory techniques In January 2019, she got awarded from Advance HE and Kingston University an Associate Fellowship in the Higher Education Academy.