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Jes Alexander
Stanford University
PhD department: MIT
Mentor: Michael B Yaffee
Combined computational and experimental approach to characterization of the role of polo-like kinase I substrate network in mitosis
Jessica Amenta
New York University
Neurobiology and immunology
Michael Angelo
University of Mississippi
PhD department: Biochemistry
Mentor: Jonathan Stamler
Reactions of hemoglobin and nitric oxide producing compounds, including, but not limited to, nitric oxide and nitrite
Allision Betof
Cornell University
PhD department: Pathology
Development of phosphatase inhibitors for cancer pharmacotherapy
 
Alexandra Bey
University of North Carolina
Charlene Blake
University of Kansas; Fisk University
PhD department: Genetics & Genomics Program
Mentor: Bruce Sullenger
A reversible drug to treat stroke, heart attacks, and pulmonary elbolism—made of RNA (called an aptamer) and binds to and inhibit antiplasmin, a protein which is the endogenous inhibitor of plasmin
Edith Bowers
The College of William and Mary
PhD department: Pathology
Mentor: Sal Pizzo
Encapsulation into a2-Macroglobulin Enhances the Cell-Mediated Immune Response to Antigen
Joshua Brandstadter
Wesleyan University; Oxford University MSc
Cancer genetics, epigenetics, and immunology
Marisa Buchakjian
Case Western Reserve University
PhD department: Molecular Cancer Biology
Mentor: Sally Kornbluth
Gene expression signature changes with Ras deregulation. Metabolic
effects of oncogenes

 
Evan Calabrese
Emory University
 
Bryan Choi
Gustaaf de Ridder
University of South Carolina
PhD department: Pathology
Mentor: Sal Pizzo
Understanding the role of cell-surface GRP78 in cancer
Ashish Doshi
Case Western Reserve University
PhD department: Biomedical Engineering
Mentor: Salim Idriss
Methods for determining cardiac electrical stability and susceptibility to sudden arrhythmic death
Kafui Dzirasa
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
PhD department: Neurobiology, Wakeman Fellow
Mentor: Miguel Nicolelis
Neural correlates of psychiatric disease
Christie Eyler
Duke University
PhD department: Molecular Cancer Biology
Mentor: Jeremy Rich
Nitric oxide regulation in glioma cancer stem cells
Emily Ferguson
Harvard University
PhD department: Molecular Cancer Biology
Mentor: Jeff Rathmell
Interactions between signaling pathways mediated by glucose metabolism and p53 signaling
Christine Ferrara
Mira Costa College; University of Notre Dame
PhD department: Pharmacology
Mentor: Christopher Newgard, Alan Attie at University of Wisconsin
Genetic loci of liver metabolism: Integrating metabolic and transcriptomic profiling
Clarence Findley
Princeton University
PhD department: Pharmacology
Mentor: Christopher D Kontos
Role of soluble Tie2 in regulating Tie2 receptor biology and pathological angiogenesis
Michael Forrester
Northwestern University
PhD department: Biochemistry
Mentor: Jonathan Stamler
S-Nitrosylation of protein cysteine thiols; nitric oxide biochemistry; mass spectrometry of proteins/peptides
Stephan Frangakis
Rutgers University
Srishti Bhagat Garvey
Georgia Institute of Technology
Neuroscience and immunology
Sidney Gospe
Stanford University
PhD department: Pharmacology
Mentor: Vadim Arshavsky
Vikas Gupta
Pennsylvania State University
Cancer Biology
Jane Healy
Trinity University, San Antonio
PhD department: Biochemistry
Mentor: Vann Bennett
Interaction between Ankyrin B, a membrane associated protein implicated in diabetes and cardiac arrhythmias, and the sodium potassium atpase

Jeffrey Helgager
PhD department: Neurobiology, Wakeman Fellow
Neuroscience

Taylor Herbert
Davidson College
PhD department: Pathology
Mentor: Chris Nicchitta
The role of the endoplasmic reticulum in the regulation of translation and antigen presentation
Gabriel Howles-Banerji
Stanford University
PhD department: Biomedical Engineering
Mentor: Allan Johnson
Exploring the use of Manganese as a functional neuronal contrast agent. Development of a in vivo luminometry system
Richard Hwang
University of California, Berkeley
PhD department: Neurobiology
Mentor: Dan Tracey
Multidendritic signaling affects hemocyte localization
Carrie Johnson
Duke University
PhD department: Molecular Cancer Biology
Mentor: Sally Kornbluth
Investigation of cytochrome c-mediated apoptosis in brain tumors
 
Matthew Kan
Harvard University
Erik Knelson
Davidson College
Cancer biology, pharmacology and neurobiology
 

Jordan Komisarow
Duke University
PhD department: Neurobiology
Mentor: Michael Ehlers

Christian Kunder
University of Pennsylvania
PhD department: Pathology
Mentor: SN Abraham
The role of mast cells in bacterial infections
Joshua Lacsina
Harvard University
PhD department: Pathology
Mentor: Chris Nicchitta
Using a fluorescent reporter system to study the fate of the polypeptides produced during MRNA surveillance
Benjamin Lampson
Duke University
PhD department:
Mentor: Chris Counter
Jason Lee
Yale University
PhD department: Pharmacology
Mentor: Gerard Blobe
The TGF-beta signaling pathway
Arwen Long
Brandeis University; University of Cambridge
PhD department: Neurobiology
Mentor: Michael Platt
Neurophysiology and neurochemistry of decision-making
Giselle Lopez
University of Maryland
PhD department: Pathology
Mentor: Hai Yan
Genetics of brain cancer
Gray Lyons
Davidson College
PhD department: Cell Biology
Mentor: Chay Kuo
Mechanisms of signal transduction and targets for pharmacotherapy
John Mavropoulos
University of Chicago
PhD department: Pathology
Mentor: Sal Pizzo
Effects of carbohydrate deprivation on cancer cell signaling and development
 
John McManigle
Pennsylvania State University
Jeffrey Mito
Princeton University
PhD department: Molecular Cancer Biology
Mentor: David G Kirsch
 
Everett Moding
Colorado College
Yvonne Mowery
University of Virginia
PhD department: Pathology
Mentor: Sal Pizzo and Mark Dewhirst
The role of hypoxia in vascular proliferation in cancer
Stephen Odaibo
Uuniversity of Alabama - Birmingham
PhD department: Computer Science
Mentor: Xiaobai Sun and Mark Dewhirst
Mathematical pharmacology of receptor systems in signal transduction
Nicole Pershing
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cell and molecular biology
Thomas Petersen
Princeton University
PhD department: Biomedical Engineering
Mentor: Laura Niklason
The functional performance of endothelial progenitor cell-derived endothelial cells as compared to native endothelial cells with regard to their ability to integrate into a tissue engineered vessel
Heather Hartig Pua
Duke University
PhD department: Immunology
Mentor: You-Wen He
The role of autophagy in primary T lymphocyte survival and function
Quintin Quinones
Florida Atlantic University
PhD department: Pathology
Mentor: Sal Pizzo
Metabolic targeting of cancer cells via monocarboxylate transporters
Michael Raisch
University of California, Santa Barbara
Signalling mechanisms that regulate cell differentiation, dedifferentiation, and cancer
Margie Ream
University of Richmond
PhD department: Neurobiology
Mentor: Dona Chikaraishi
Fetal stress and hypoxia: the role of norepinephrine in fetal development
Jennifer Reedy
PhD department: Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Mentor: Joseph Heitman
Zachary Reitman
Pennsylvania State University
Neuroscience, pathology
Timothy Robinson
University of Virginia
PhD department: Molecular Cancer Biology
Mentor: Mariano Garcia-Blanco and Mark Dewhirst
Alternative mRNA processing in epithelial-mesenchymal transition and cancer
Veronica Rotemberg
Harvard University
Carolyn Sangokoya
Stanford University
PhD department: Genetics & Genomics Program
Mentor: Ashley Chi
Microarray analysis and functional roles of microRNA in erythrocytes and anemic disorders
Rebecca Stein
University of Chicago
PhD department: Molecular Cancer Biology
Mentor: Donald McDonnell
The role of the nuclear receptor Estrogen Receptor-related Receptor alpha in cancer
Timothy Sweeney
University of Chicago
PhD department: Pathology
Mentor: Claude Piantadosi
Splicer AV – a novel, experimentally validated program that analyzes standard microarray data for evidence of alternative mRNA processing
Michael TeKippe
Iowa State University
PhD department: Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Mentor: Alejandro Aballay
Using the nematode, C. elegans, as a model of host-pathogen with the fungal pathogen, Cryptococcus neoformans
 
Alok Tewari

Mentor: Philip Febbo
Erin Wilfong
Ohio State University
PhD department: Chemistry
Mentor: Eric Toone
The molecular basis of affinity in aqueous solution
Minsi Zhang
Johns Hopkins University
 
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