Student Profiles Miller School of Medicine

Pablo Arroliga

Mentor: Roberto Vazquez-Padron, Ph.D.

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.
Project Title: Project title: BUB1B as a therapeutic vulnerability in castration resistant prostate cancer.

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Marielise Torres

Mentor: Courtney Dumont, Ph.D.

Alexandra Chirino

Mentor: Marcelo Kazanietz, Ph.D.

Bruno Colon

Mentor: Daniel Isom, Ph.D.
Project: The Role of NDR1/2 Kinases in the Cell Stress Response

Agustina De Rosa

Mentor: Mariana Cooke, M.D., Ph.D., and Justin Taylor, M.D.

Roxana Diaz

Mentor: Joana Almaca, Ph.D.

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.
Project Title: A Functional Study of OR51E1, an Ectopically Expressed Olfactory GPCR, in Prostate Cancer.

Veronika Jurczuk

Mentor: Ivan Jozic, Ph.D.
Project: Determining proteomic biomarkers of wound healing utilizing discarded wound dressings

Kara Lamb

Mentor: Claes Wahlestedt, M.D.
Project title: "EZH2-dependent reprogramming of select amygdalar GABAergic neurons in Alcohol Use Disorder"

Clarence Locklear

Mentor: Claes Wahlestedt, MD
Project: Slow-Wave Sleep as a Mediator of DNA Damage and Repair Mechanisms in Mice

Marvin Mendoza

Mentor: Alice Tomei, Ph.D.
Project Title: "Mechanobiology of Tolerogenic Fibroblastic Reticular Cells in Autoimmunity and T1D"

Ina Niroula

Mentor: Kiran Kurmi, Ph.D.

Jacinda Pujols

Mentor: Daniel Isom, Ph.D.
Project: "CIDER: CRISPR Integrated Directed Evolution of Receptors"

Jennyfer Robayo

Mentor: Mariana Cooke, M.D., Ph.D.

Monica Rasmussen

Mentor: Mark Yeager, Ph.D.

Preyasha Shrestha