Rebeca Kawahara

Dr Rebeca Kawahara Sakuma is a recently awarded Cancer Institute NSW Early Career Fellow (2019-22) in the Analytical Glycoimmunology Group, Department of Molecular Sciences, Macquarie University, Australia. She received her PhD in Functional and Molecular Biology in 2015 from University of Campinas, Brazil and completed a postdoctoral position with a focus on molecular cancer research in the Glycoproteomics group of Prof Giuseppe Palmisano, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil (2015-17). She has also been trained in other high profile (glyco)proteomics laboratories including Prof Michael MacCoss, University of Washington, Seattle (2014), Prof Martin R. Larsen, University of Southern Denmark (2016) and, lately, Dr Morten Andersen and Distinguished Prof Nicki Packer, Macquarie University (2017-18) as a visiting fellow. Currently, her research focuses on understanding how protein N-glycosylation modulates the tumour microenvironment and impacts the immune- and cancer-related anti- and pro-inflammatory processes in colorectal cancer.

Has experience in Biochemistry