Tess Baker
Mentor: Ernesto Bernal Mizrachi, Ph.D.
Project: Molecular Mechanisms of Intermittent Hypoxia on Pancreatic β-cell Function and its association with mTORC1 Signaling
Cynthia Blanco
Mentor: Kerry Burstein, Ph.D.
Jamie Burgess
Mentor: Marjana Tomic-Canic, Ph.D.
Project: Core mechanisms that contribute to inhibition of wound healing in diabetic foot and venous leg ulcers
Tijana Canic
Mentor: R. Grace Zhai, Ph.D.
Laura Doyle
Mentor: Fulvia Verde, Ph.D.
Project: TBD
Corey Fehlberg
Mentor: Jae Lee, Ph.D.
Project: Cross-species Profile of Fibrosis after Spinal Cord Injury
Joan C. Glenny-Pescov
Mentor: Stephan Schurer, Ph.D.
Project: TBD
Jun Gu
Mentor: Fulvia Verde Ph.D. /Co-mentor Fangliang Zhang, Ph.D.
Project: The Role of NDR1/2 Kinases in the Cell Stress Response
Taylor Henry
Mentor: Vladlen Slepak, Ph.D.
Veronika Jurczuk
Mentor: Ivan Jozic, Ph.D.
Project: TBD
Ali Kamiar
Mentor: Lina Shehadeh, Ph.D.
Kara Lamb
Mentor: Claes Wahlestedt, M.D.
Kyutae Lee
Mentor: Daniel Isom, Ph. D.C
Project: Identifying superdark GPCRs
Jiaqi Liu
Mentor: R. Grace Zhai
Project: Compartment Specific Function of NMNAT in glioma
Clarence Locklear
Mentor: Claes Wahlestedt, MD
Project: Slow-Wave Sleep as a Mediator of DNA Damage and Repair Mechanisms in Mice
Sean Meehan
Mentor: Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Ph.D.
Corin O'Shea
Mentor: Fangliang Zhang, Ph.D.
Project: Characterization of Arginyltransferase 1
Natalie Ortiz-Vega
Mentor: Grace Zhai, Ph.D.
Project: Pending
Jacinda Pujols
Mentor: Daniel Isom, Ph.D.
Project: "CIDER: CRISPR Integrated Directed Evolution of Receptors"
Miguel Rojas
Mentor: Roberto Vazquez Padron, Ph.D.
Project: Uncovering the cellular and molecular transformation of arteriovenous fistulas
Jennifer Suon
Mentor: Robert Starke, Ph.D.
Matthew Tolerico
Mentor: Alessia Fornoni, M.D., Ph.D.
Project: SMPDL3b as a regulator of the cGAS-STING pathway in diabetic kidney disease
Afoma Umeano
Mentor: Kerry Burnstein, Ph.D.
Project: Novel Therapeutics for CARM1 Overexpression
Fatemeh Vatankhah
Mentor: Lina Shehadeh, Ph.D.
