As a Molecular Biologist, my research interest include the area of signal transduction and how it play crucial role in cellular processes. I am interested in identifying molecular players that governs cellular processes and how deviations in these players cause diseases, thus providing new targets for drug therapeutics.

• Inorganic polyphosphates are important for cell survival and motility of human skin keratinocytes. Simbulan-Rosenthal CM, Gaur A, Sanabria VA, Dussan LJ, Saxena R, Schmidt J, Kitani T, Chen YS, Rahim S, Uren A,Rosenthal DS, Crooke E. Exp Dermatol. 2015 Apr 13. doi:10.1111/exd.12729. PMID: 25869331
• ROCK inhibitor reduces Myc-induced apoptosis and mediates immortalization of human keratinocytes. Dakic A, DiVito K, Fang S, Suprynowicz F, Gaur A, Li X, Palechor-Ceron N, Simic V, Choudhury S, Yu S, Simbulan-Rosenthal CM,Rosenthal D, Schlegel R, Liu X. Oncotarget. 2016 Aug 20. doi: 10.18632/ oncotarget.11458. PMID: 27556514
• The Repurposed anthelmintic mebendazole in combination with trametinib suppresses refractory NRAS Q61K melanoma. Cynthia M. Simulan-Rosenthal, Sivanesan Dakshanamurthy, Anirudh Gaur, You-Shin Chen, Maryam Abdussumad, Hengbo Zhou, John Zapas, Valerie Calvert, Emanuel F. Petricoin, Michael B. Atkins, Stephen W. Byers, Dean Rosenthal Oncotarget. 2017 Feb 2. doi: 10.18632/ oncotarget.14990. PMID: 28157711