Team SDR

Oncology

Team SDR

Synthetic Lethality in DNA Repair

The group aims to translate new synthetic lethal interactions between DNA repair genes into novel therapeutic targets in oncology. By performing targeted pooled screens in cells deficient in DNA repair genes, team SDR will strive to identify and characterize new drug targets in DNA repair and DNA replication as a potent tool to increase the efficiency of clinically used DNA damaging agents.

Mentors
  • Dr. Balca Mardin
    Head of Laboratory, DNA Damage Response Research at Merck (Industry mentor)
  • Dr. Amir Abdollahi
    Translational Radiation Oncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg (Academic mentor)
The research of this team is kindly sponsored by Merck.

Our Team Members

Dr. Özdemirhan Serçin

Group Leader

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  • 2016 – 2021: Postdoctoral Researcher, Team DDC, BioMed X Institute, Heidelberg, Germany
  • 2012 – 2015: Postdoctoral research fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Dr. Cedric Blanpain, IRIBHM, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
  • 2006 – 2011: PhD Student and research assistant in the laboratory of Prof. Dr. Aziz Sancar, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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Dr. Raktim Biswas

Postdoctoral Researcher

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  • 2018 – 2022: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
  • 2015 – 2016: Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Biology, University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA
  • 2012 – 2018: Postdoctoral Researcher, Beckman Laser Institute Korea, Cheonan, South Korea
  • 2007 2011: PhD in Molecular Biology, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, India
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Manisha Manojkumar Singh

Research Assistant

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  • 2017 – 2020: Master of Science in Molecular Biosciences, Major Cancer Biology, Heidelberg University and DKFZ, Germany
  • 2019: Internship at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Boston, USA
  • 2012 2016: Bachelor of Engineering, BMSCE, Bangalore, India
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Amelia Kurti

Master's Student

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  • 2022 – present: Master of Science in Molecular Biosciences, Major in Cancer Biology, Heidelberg University and DKFZ, Germany
  • 2022: Internship and Thesis preparation at Thomas Graf laboratory, CRG, Spain
  • 2019 – 2022: Bachelor of Science in Genomics, University of Bologna, Italy
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Berçin Yildiran

Master's Student

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  • 2022 – present: Master of Science in Molecular Biosciences, Molecular and Cellular Biology Major, Heidelberg University, Germany
  • 2021: Internship at the University of Copenhagen, Protein Biology Laboratory, Denmark
  • 2017 – 2022: Bachelor of Science in Genetics and Bioengineering, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey
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Seyedehsaba Nateghi

Intern

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  • 2022 – present: Erasmus+ International Master’s in Innovative Medicine (IMIM), Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Germany
  • 2020 – 2021: Student intern at the Elite Foundation of Iran, Laboratory of Advanced Medical Biotechnology, Iran
  • 2017 – 2021: Bachelor’s in Biology, Department of Microbiology, University of Tehran, Iran
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Preeti Thiyagarajan

Master's Student

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  • 2021 – current: Master’s Student in Radiation Biology at the Technical University of Munich, Germany
  • 2021 – 2022: Internships at the Institut für Radiobiologie der Bundeswehr, and at LMU Klinikum, at the Comprehensive Childhood Research Center, Munich, Germany
  • 2017 – 2021: Bachelor’s (Honours) in Advanced Biomedical Sciences at Sri Ramachandra Medical University, India
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Team SDR Alumni

At BioMed X we care for the people who work with us. Staying in touch with those who left but mainly contributed to BioMed X’s success is key. That’s why they have their designated place on our website. So let’s keep connected!

Yuliia Borysovych

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Izlem Su Akan

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