Andrea Corbet, Ph.D.  

ASERT Fellow 

University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center 

Dept. Obstetrics & Gynecology, Div. Gynecologic Oncology 

Email (as a link) akcorbet@salud.unm.edu 

Education 

• ASERT Postdoctoral Fellow, University of New Mexico, School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM 2023 - Present 
• PhD, Cancer Biology, University of Illinois Urbana – Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, 2023 
• BA, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Cornell College, Mt Vernon, Iowa, 2017 

Teaching Mentor: Not assigned yet 

Courses Taught: 

Human Anatomy and Physiology 

Current Research (One sentence synopsis): 

Assessing the impact of estrogen-signaling on the activity of the innate-immune response protein, STING, in ovarian cancer.  

Research Mentors:  

• Sarah Adams, MD., Professor, Dept of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Division of  

    Gynecologic Oncology; Associate Director, Translational Research; UNM Cancer  

    Center – Cancer Therapeutics, Gynecologic Oncology 

• Eric Prossnitz, Ph.D., Professor, Dept of Molecular Medicine at the Cancer Research 

     Center UNM, Dept. of Internal Medicine, Co-leader in Therapeutics Research group  

Publications: 

1.  Fazal Z, Singh R, Fang F, Bikorimana E, Baldwin H, Corbet A, et al Hypermethylation and global remodelling of DNA methylation is associated    with acquired cisplatin resistance in testicular germ cell tumours. Epigenetics               2020.https://doi.org/10.1080/15592294.2020.1834926. 

1. Singh R, Fazal Z, Corbet AK, Bikorimana E, Rodriguez JC, Khan EM, et al. Epigenetic Remodeling through Downregulation of Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 Mediates Chemotherapy Resistance in Testicular Germ Cell Tumors. Cancers (Basel) 2019; 11:https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers11060796. . 

1. Corbet AK, Bikorimana E, Boyd RI, Shokry D, Kries K, Gupta A, Paton A, Sun Z, Fazal Z, Freemantle SJ, Nelson ER, Spinella MJ, Singh R. Original Research G0S2 promotes antiestrogenic and pro-migratory responses in ER+ and ER-breast cancer cells. Transl Oncol 2023;33:101676.