EUNUS ALI

Eunus studied medicinal and protein chemistry at Stockholm University, Sweden, where he completed his master’s thesis on the binding affinities of small molecules to norovirus protein by docking, molecular dynamics simulation and linear interaction energy methods.

He then moved to Flinders University, Australia to pursue a PhD in Biochemistry. At Flinders, Eunus combined advanced microscopy, chemical genetic techniques and mouse models to investigate how store-operated calcium channels can be dysregulated and involved in the development of liver steatosis and hepatocellular carcinoma.

In 2017, Eunus moved to Northwestern University at Chicago as a postdoctoral fellow. There, employing high resolution mass spectrometry, biochemical approaches and CRISPR, Eunus identified two fundamental mechanisms in cancer metabolism - how cancer cells hijack nucleotide metabolism to boost their cell proliferation compared to normal cells. In 2024, Eunus became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Toxicology and Cancer Biology, and the Markey Cancer Center at Kentucky.