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: BUB1B as a therapeutic vulnerability in castration resistant prostate cancer.
Alexandra Chirino
Mentor: Marcelo Kazanietz, Ph.D.
James Choi
Bruno Colon
Mentor: Daniel Isom, Ph.D.
Project: Understanding how cells connect, communicate, and exchange material
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
Nicholas Khuu
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
Gabriela Lopez
Mentor: Roberto Vazquez-Padron, Ph.D.
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.
Jennyfer Robayo
Mentor: Mariana Cooke, M.D., Ph.D.
Monica Rasmussen
Mentor: Mark Yeager, Ph.D.
Project Title: The Molecular Basis for Normal and Pathologic Cardiac Conduction Mediated by Gap Junction Channels
Preyasha Shrestha
Mentor: Kiran Kurmi, Ph.D.
Jennifer Suon
Mentor: Robert Starke, Ph.D.
Marielise Torres
Mentor: Courtney Dumont, Ph.D.
Project Title: Glycosaminoglycan Granular Biomaterials To Promote Wound Healing
Fatemeh Vatankhah
Mentor: Lina Shehadeh, Ph.D.
Matthew Walinski
Mentors: Joshua Hare, M.D., FACC, FAHA & Aisha Khan, PhD., MBA
Lea Wilson
Mentor:Daphne Avgousti, Ph.D.
