Saori Furuta is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) and the Faculty Research Staff at MetroHealth Medical Center. She obtained her B.S. in Biochemistry from the University of California, Riverside, her MS. in Chemistry & Biochemistry from California State University, Los Angeles, with honor, and a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from the University of California, Irvine. She then launched her postdoctoral training under a world-renowned breast cancer biologist, Mina Bissell, in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She joined the faculty of the Department of Cancer Biology at the University of Toledo as an Assistant Professor in November 2015 and was promoted to a tenured Associate Professor in 2021. Her research interest is to investigate how aberrant arginine metabolism influences different components of the tissue/tumor microenvironment, and how such a havoc leads to carcinogenesis, drug resistance and immunosuppression. She is also investigating whether normalizing arginine metabolism could boost the gut microbiome and train innate immunity to prevent breast cancer formation.