Judith Sokei

Program: Cancer Biology

Current advisor: Stephen M. Sykes, PhD

Undergraduate university: Nnamdi Azikiwe University, 2013

Enrollment year: 2020

Research summary
Understanding metabolic reprogramming in Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) and the potential of targeting the 1C-metabolic pathway as a therapeutic strategy.

Graduate publications
Sokei J, Kanefsky J, Sykes SM. 2025 Reprogramming of Fatty Acid Metabolism in Acute Leukemia. J Cell Physiol, 240(1)::e70000

Kanefsky J, Basse M, Sokei J, di Martino O, Valin L, Jaspers Y, Martinez E, Huhn J, Di Marcantonio D, Magee JA, Goldman AR, Tang HY, Ferraro F, Kemp S, Wiest DL, Sykes SM. 2024 Disruption of polyunsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis drives STING-dependent acute myeloid leukemia cell maturation and death. J Biol Chem, 300(5):107214. PMCID: PMC11061745