Mohamed Abdelmonem, DHA, MBA, CLS, MLS (ASCP) SBB; Clinical Laboratory Supervisor, Transfusion Services, Stanford Medicine. Mohamed Abdelmonem is a Clinical Laboratory Supervisor in the Transfusion Services department at Stanford Medicine. He holds a Doctor of Healthcare Administration (DHA) and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree, along with certifications as a Clinical Laboratory Scientist (CLS) and Medical Laboratory Scientist with a specialty in Blood Banking (SBB) from the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP). His expertise lies in optimizing laboratory operations and ensuring the quality and safety of blood products for transfusion. He has actively participated in projects aimed at improving blood bank inventory management and streamlining transfusion practices. Mohamed is a published author with contributions to various scientific journals in the fields of transfusion medicine and laboratory medicine. He is also a member of professional societies dedicated to advancing laboratory practices and blood banking knowledge, such as AABB, ASCP, and ASM.
Eun-Seok Choi is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Genetic Engineering from Kyung Hee University - Global Campus in 2011, his Master’s degree from Pohang University of Science
and Technology in 2013, and his Ph.D. from Yonsei University College of Medicine in 2018. He served as a Senior Researcher at D.R.NANO, Seoul (2018–2019), and a Senior Researcher at HectoHealthcare Co., Ltd., Seoul (2019–2023). His research is focused on the cancer microbiome, trained immunity, and tumor metabolism in breast cancer.
Saori Furuta is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) and the Faculty Research Staff at MetroHealth Medical Center. She obtained her B.S. in Biochemistry from the University of California, Riverside, her MS. in
Chemistry & Biochemistry from California State University, Los Angeles, with honor, and a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from the University of California, Irvine. She then launched her postdoctoral training under a world-renowned breast cancer biologist, Mina Bissell, in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She joined the faculty of the Department of Cancer Biology at the University of Toledo as an Assistant Professor in November 2015 and was promoted to a tenured Associate Professor in 2021. Her research interest is to investigate how aberrant arginine metabolism influences different components of the tissue/tumor microenvironment, and how such a havoc leads to carcinogenesis, drug resistance and immunosuppression. She is also investigating whether normalizing arginine metabolism could boost the gut microbiome and train innate immunity to prevent breast cancer formation.
