My primary research area is on small RNA biology. Our research activity is mainly focusing on studying the role of small RNAs in cancer development and drug resistance.

A major effort of our previous work had focused on the identification of novel small RNAs (particularly miRNAs) and the documentation of their expression patterns in several tissue types. We also evaluated the potential use of miRNA expression profiles in tumor classification and prognostication. Our current projects focus primarily on the functional roles of small RNAs along with their regulatory components in clinically relevant experimental systems.