Mina Morcos, PhD

Qualifikationen

• Promotion in Stammzellbiologie, Medizinische Fakultät Carl Gustav Carus, TU Dresden
• Versuchstierkundlicher Kurs (FELASA B)
• Dozent
  • Technische Universität München (Translationale Onkologie)
  • German University in Cairo (Physikalische Chemie und Drug Design)

Mitgliedschaften

• European Hematology Association (EHA)

Publikationen

• Auer, F., Morcos, M. N., Sipola, M., Akhtar, I., Moisio, S., Vogt, J., … & Hauer, J. (2025). Trajectories from single-cells to PAX5-driven leukemia reveal PAX5-MYC interplay in vivo: ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA. Leukemia, 1-20.
• Lu, Z., Stencel, O., Liu, W., Vasileiou, E., Xu, H. C., Pandey, P., Stachura, P., Elwy, A., Tsombal, A., Mai, A. S., Auer, F., Morcos, M. N. F., … & Pandyra, A. A. (2025). Immune training enhances anti-viral responses and improves outcomes in Pax5-/+ mice susceptible to chronic infection. EMBO molecular medicine, 17(4), 696-721.
• Gassmann, H., Thiede, M., Weiß, J., Biele, E., Flohé, L., Lachermaier, H., Prexler, C., Evdokimova, V., Radvanyi, L., Akhtar, I., Morcos, M. N. F., … Thiel, U., & von Heyking, K. (2024). Cytokine screening identifies TNF to potentially enhance immunogenicity of pediatric sarcomas. Frontiers in immunology, 15, 1347404.
• Dressel, N., Natusch, L., Munz, C. M., Costas Ramon, S., Morcos, M. N., Loff, A., … & Gerbaulet, A. (2023). Activation of the cGAS/STING axis in genome-damaged hematopoietic cells does not impact blood cell formation or leukemogenesis. Cancer Research, 83(17), 2858-2872.
• Morcos, M. N.*, Li, C.*, Munz, C. M.*, Greco, A., Dressel, N., Reinhardt, S., … & Gerbaulet, A. (2022). Fate mapping of hematopoietic stem cells reveals two pathways of native thrombopoiesis. Nature communications, 13(1), 4504.
• Schedel, A., Friedrich, U. A., Morcos, M. N., Wagener, R., Mehtonen, J., Watrin, T., … & Auer, F. (2022). Recurrent germline variant in RAD21 predisposes children to lymphoblastic leukemia or lymphoma. International journal of molecular sciences, 23(9), 5174.
• Morcos, M. N., Zerjatke, T., Glauche, I., Munz, C. M., Ge, Y., Petzold, A., … & Gerbaulet, A. (2020). Continuous mitotic activity of primitive hematopoietic stem cells in adult mice. Journal of Experimental Medicine, 217(6), e20191284.
• Morcos, M. N., Schoedel, K. B., Hoppe, A., Behrendt, R., Basak, O., Clevers, H. C., … & Gerbaulet, A. (2017). SCA-1 expression level identifies quiescent hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells. Stem Cell Reports, 8(6), 1472-1478.
• Schoedel, K. B., Morcos, M. N., Zerjatke, T., Roeder, I., Grinenko, T., Voehringer, D., … & Gerbaulet, A. (2016). The bulk of the hematopoietic stem cell population is dispensable for murine steady-state and stress hematopoiesis. Blood, The Journal of the American Society of Hematology, 128(19), 2285-2296.

Akademische Auszeichnungen und Förderungen:

• 2025
  Projektförderung durch die Tour der Hoffnung
• 2018
  ISEH 47th Annual Scientific Meeting Travel Grant
• 2018
  Dresden International Graduate School for Biomedicine and Bioengineering (DIGS-BB) PhD Bridging Grant (Januar bis Juli 2018)
• 2018
  DIGS-BB Wrap-up Postdoctoral Grant (Juli bis Dezember 2018)

ORCID

0000-0001-5812-9526