Name: Linara S. Axanova

Email address: laxanova@wfubmc.edu

Education:

M.S. (Food Technology, Kazan State University of Technology, Kazan, Russia);

M.S. (Foods and Nutrition, Purdue University)

Advisor/Lab: Dr. Scott D. Cramer

Current Research:  I am involved in two projects in the lab. One project is focused on isolation and characterization of prostatic progenitor cells. More recently I am focusing on a project evaluating the role of Akt signaling in antiproliferative actions of Vitamin D3 in prostate cancer cells.

Publications:

Barclay, W., Axanova, L., Chen, W., Romero, L., Maund, S., Soker, S., Lees, C. and Cramer, S. Characterization of Adult Prostatic Progenitor/Stem Cells Exhibiting Self-Renewal and MultilineageDifferentiation. Stem Cells, 2007 (submitted).

Axanova, L., D.J. Morre, and D.M. Morre, Growth of LNCaP cells in monoculture and coculture with osteoblasts and response to tNOX inhibitors. Cancer Lett, 2005. 225(1): p. 35-40.

Conference Proceedings (Abstracts):

Grigoreva N., Axanova L., Dokychaeva I. and Gerasimov M. A new method of milk whey utilization. Interregional Conference of Young Scientists, Kazan, Russia 1999

Grigoreva N., Axanova L., Gerasimov M., Nikolaev N. and Liakymovish A. Optimization of spent brewer’s grain utilization. Interregional Conference of Young Scientists, Food Technologies section, Kazan, Russia 1999

Honors and Awards:

- PC073325, Pre-doctoral Prostate Cancer Training Award, Linara Axanova (PI)  Department of Defense, $84,000 (pending) “PTEN Loss Antagonizes Calcitriol-mediated Growth Inhibition in Prostate Epithelial Cells”

- 1st place Poster Award, Cancer Biology Departmental Retreat (August, 2007)

- M.S. Diploma with Honors (Kazan State University of Technology)

- Government Academic Scholarship for undergraduate study

Hobbies: 

“Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at once in time and space” - Curt Sachs

“While I dance I cannot judge, I cannot hate, I cannot separate myself from life. I can only be joyful and whole. That is why I dance”. - Hans Bos

Not much to add. I dance and compete in Amateur Latin Ballroom division.