Camille Acevedo
Mentor: Nipun Merchant
Project: Elucidating the Role of CAF-Intrinsic p38α MAPK Signaling in Driving Stromal Desmoplasia and Therapeutic Resistance in Pancreatic Cancer
Andrew Adams
Mentor: Jashoddep Datta
Project: Regulation and functional consequences of myeloid-derived Transmembrane-Tnf in pancreatic cancer
Evan Andrew Ambrose
Mentor: Fangliang Zhang
Project: Uncovering the role of arginyltransferase 1 in cyclin D1 degradation.
Ava Amidei
Mentor: David Coffey
Project: TBD
Palak Bajaj
Mentor: David Coffey
Project: Circulating tumor DNA as a minimally invasive predictor of early relapse in multiple myeloma
Avni Bhalgat
Mentor: Justin Taylor
Project: CIPHER-seq: A Stress-Minimized Platform for Simultaneous Intracellular Protein and Transcriptome Profiling in Single Immune Cells
Alexandra Carbone
Mentor: Scott Welford
Project: Disruption of Spermine Biosynthesis Reduces Tumorigenic Potential of Glioblastoma
David Carmona Berrio
Mentor: David Lombard
Project: TBD
Ray Castro
Mentor: Justin Taylor
Project: Therapeutic Targeting of Aberrant STK17A in GBM using Novel Brain Penetrant Inhibitors
Shraddha Chandthakuri
Mentor: Dan Isom
Project: Elucidating the Molecular Regulation of Superdark Transmembrane Protein 184C (TM184C)
Nicolae Ciobu Zubenco
Mentor: Viraj Sanghvi
Program: Understanding the role of tumor microenvironment remodeling and antitumor immunity in overnutrition-promoted hepatocellular carcinoma
Allison Cool
Mentor: Justin Taylor
Program: Investigating Resistance Mechanisms to Bruton’s Tyrosine Kinase Degraders in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
Carolina De La Pena Fernandez
Mentor: Dionysios Watson
Project: TBD
Brianna Dessa
Mentor: Scott Welford
Project: Exploring the Role of Chemerin in Modulating Lipid Metabolism and Immune Interactions in Glioblastoma
Pierfrancesco Di Ridolfo
Mentor: Marcelo Kazanietz
Project: TBD
Yousef Hussein Elyoussef
Mentor: Marcelo Kazanietz
Project: TBD
Arnaldo Franco Torres
Mentor: Oliver McDonald
Project: Pancreatic cancers rewire mitochondrial metabolism to reprogram chromatin for metastasis
Ishita Garg
Mentor: Daniel Pelaez
Project: Investigating the role of human papillomavirus infection in the pathogenesis of thyroid eye disease
Alexander Grunfeld
Mentor: Stephen Lee
Project: Amyloid-bodies in the evolution of solid tumors
Janice Jing Huang
Mentor: Stephen Lee
Project: Amyloid-bodies in the evolution of solid tumors
Rabia Khurshid
Mentor: Stephan Schurer
Project: Elucidating the Understudied Kinase PNCK as a Novel Therapeutic Target in Renal Cell Carcinoma
Kendall Knechtel
Mentor: Daniel Pelaez
Project: Developing a Novel Oncolytic Viral Platform for the Treatment of Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma
Erica Lamkin
Mentor: Justin Taylor
Project: TBD
Brandon Leon
Mentor: Defne Bayik
Project: Glioblastoma derived glutamate drives tumor-associated astrocyte reactivity
Olivia Lightfuss
Mentor: Jonathan Schatz
Project: Essential Role of The Cyclin G Associated Kinase (GAK) In Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma Mitotic Progression
Wendi Ma
Mentor: Alan Pollack
Project: The Effect, Mechanism and Targeted Delivery of the HDACi, Romidepsin, in Treating Prostate Cancer
Harper Marsh
Mentor: Jashoddep Datta
Project: Defining IL1RAP as a critical determinant of neutrophilic MDSC fitness and function in pancreatic cancer
Beatriz Mateo-Victoriano
Mentor: Priyamvada Rai
Project: Robust redundancy in MTH1 8-oxodGTPase function is a newly discovered feature underlying normal physiology
Samantha McLaughlin
Mentor: Daniel Pelaez
Project: The role of aerobic glycolysis in driving extramitochondrial ATP production in retinoblastoma
Jonathan Mitchell
Mentor: Defne Bayik
Project: Mitochondria Transfer Drives Astrocyte Reactivity in Glioblastoma
Sreejeta Mondal
Mentor: Brian Walker
Project: Epigenetic landscape of non-coding genome in Multiple Myeloma
Adnan Mookhtiar
Mentor: Stepehen Nimer
Project: Arginine Methylation of BRD4 By CARM1 Regulates Its Function in AML
Osmaray Morales Casanova
Mentor: Sophia George
Project: Early Transcriptional, Genomic Alterations, and Immunological Profiles of Fallopian Tubes from Germline BRCA1/2 Mutation Carriers linked to High-Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer
Aliya Mulati
Mentor: Zhipeng Meng
Project: TBD
Austin Daniel Newsam
Mentor: Jonathan Schatz
Project: Interrogation of Tumor-intrinsic Drivers of Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell Therapy Resistance in Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma
Ifeanyichukwu Chinedu Ogobuiro
Mentor: Scott Welford
Project: From Risk to Remedy: BRI3 as Prognostic Biomarker, HIF–GPX8 Mechanistic Driver, and Target for GBM Radiosensitization
Hafsa Ouaakki
Mentor: Justin Taylor
Project: TBD
Morgan Patone
Mentor: Kerry Burnstein
Project: The Kinesin KIF20A is a therapeutic target in castration-resistant prostate cancer
Benjamin Pomeroy
Mentor: Kerry Burnstein
Project: TBD
Christine Isabelle Rafie
Mentor: Erietta Stelekati
Project: A novel immunotherapy for Pancreatic Cancer using micro-RNA-29a
Christian Ramsoomair
Mentor: Daniel Reinberg
Project: Immuno-modulating Diffuse Midline Glioma by Epi-transcriptomic Reprogramming
Jovanka Lynn Ravix
Mentor: Sophia George
Project: Investigating Breast Cancer Outcomes in Haitian Immigrants
Daniella Alejandra Rios Martinez
Mentor: Stepehen Lee
Project: TBD
Anita Safronenka
Mentor: Emmanuel Thomas
Project: Differential Expression of IRF9 Increases Interferon Signaling Throughout Stem Cell Differentiation to Hepatocytes
Kristy Samaroo
Mentor: Sophia George
Project: TBD
Kayla Schwartz
Mentor: Oliver McDonald
Project: How do pancreatic cancer remodel the tumor microenvironment to facilitate lethal metastatic outgrowth?
Ana Shvab
Mentor: Julio Barredo
Project: The role of AMPK protein-protein interaction network in stressinduced molecular/epigenetic pathways in acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Anya Sondhi
Mentor: Justin Taylor
Project: IKZF1 Modulation and CAR-T Cell Therapy against Mantle Cell Lymphoma
David Suissa
Mentor: Kevin Van De Jeught
Project: TBD
Sam A.Taylor
Mentor: Dan Isom
Project: A Hidden 7TM Oncogene: Structural Mining Reveals a GPCR-like Regulator of mTOR Signaling
Sebastian Thompson-Ceccato
Mentor: Zhipeng Meng
Project: TBD
Destiny Tiburcio
Mentor: Michal Toborek
Project: Phthalates compromise BBB integrity via circadian rhythm regulated tight junction expression
Olivia Tonini
Mentor: Nima Sharifi
Project: Interleukin-6 Increases Glucocorticoid Inactivation in a Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer Cell Line Model
Daniel Tsai
Mentor: Jonathan Schatz
Project: Engineering Chimeric Ligand Presenting T Cells (CLiP-Ts) Targeting Receptors of Extranodal NK/T-Cell Lymphoma: A Comparative Study with Traditional CAR-T Cell Therapy
Karen Valdes
Mentor: Ralf Landgraf
Project: TBD
