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