PhD Student
The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center
Marina Goryunova, MD is currently a postdoctoral scholar in the lab of Dr. Joal Beane at The Ohio State University where she is working to elucidate how regulation of alternative RNA splicing contributes to the metastatic potential of liposarcoma. Marina attended the Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University in Moscow Russia where she graduated with honors, receiving a medical degree with specialization in Medical Biophysics. Doctor Goryunova then entered a doctoral program at the Russian Academy of Science’s Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry and is pursuing her PhD in molecular biology. While working toward her PhD, Dr. Goryunova was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to join the Ohio State University, James Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Translational Oncology and Therapeutics Research Group as a visiting researcher. As a member of the Dr. Joal Beane’s research lab team, Dr. Goryunova’s research focused on the role of RNA splicing dysregulation in metastatic potential of liposarcoma, with a particular emphasis on dedifferentiated liposarcoma, the most aggressive subtype of liposarcoma. At the conclusion of her scholarship, Dr. Goryunova was invited to remain with the Translational Oncology and Therapeutics Research Group as a research fellow to continue her research. In addition to her research, Dr. Goryunova has been accepted to the Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program at the Ohio State University College of Medicine.
