Nora Alkeraishan
King Saud university Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Biography
Nora Saad Alkeraishan is a Masters Student at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. She undertook this research project under direct supervision of well known scientist Dr. Samina Hyder Haq. Her interesting studies on the effect of melatonin and vitamin D3 on breast cancer cell line MCF-7 revealed that melatonin could significantly upregulate p53 gene expression in cultured cells and observed no direct relatioship of vitamin D3 in upregulating p53 gene expression. Currently, she is involved in genotyping the p53 to detect mutations present in the gene itself.