Svetlana Semina, PhD

Svetlana Semina, PhD, is Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Illinois College of Medicine Chicago. Her research interest is in hormone-dependent breast cancer. Using single-cell RNA sequencing and patient-derived organoids, she studies the contribution of intratumoral heterogeneity in the development of more aggressive stem-like and therapy-resistant phenotypes, disease progression and racial disparity. She utilizes various bioinformatic tools to find better therapeutic options for patients with more aggressive breast cancer and make medicine more personalized.