Previous Graduate Student Pelotonia Scholars

2013 Graduate Student Pelotonia Scholars

Learn more about the graduate students who received a scholarship award in 2013.

Daniel Arango-Tamayo
Project – Chemo-Preventive Mechanisms of Newly Formulated Flavonoid-Rich Diets in Breast Cancer

Subhasree Balakrishnan
Project – Fibroblast-Specific Pten Deletion Alters Errb2-Targeted Tumor Initiating Luminal Progenitors Accelerating Breast Tumorigenesis

Joelle Fenger
Project – Characterization of miR-9 Expression and Activation in Canine Osteosarcoma

Madelyn Gerber
Project – Identification of AURKA- and PTPRJ- interaction Human Colorectal Cancer Susceptibility Loci

Adam Hinzey
Project – Social Influences on the Breast Cancer Microenvironment

Muhtadi Islam
Project – Deep Mutagenesis of BRCA1 and Function in DNA Repair

Monica Lindgren
Project – Depression and Social Support: Implications for Treatment Adherence and Quality of Life Among Breast Cancer Survivors

Joseph Marquardt
Project – The Centrosomal Localization of the Kinase Mps1 Is Important for Its Function Throughout the Cell Cycle

Brian Maxwell
Project – Conformation Dynamics of Polymerase Switching During the Bypass of Mutagenic DNA Lesions

Mark Nelson
Project – Biomimetic Nanoscale Device for High-Throughput Anti-Metastatic Drug Screening

Komal Rambani
Project – Identifying Stroma-Derived Oncogenic Signals and Their Potential as Novel Therapeutic Targets in Pancreatic Cancer

Chaojie Wang
Project – The role of RCAN1-4 as a Tumor Metastasis Suppressor Gene

Kang Wei
Project – Development of an Adaptive Electro-Optofluidic Laparoscope with Switchable, Wide-Angle, Two-Dimension and Three-Dimension Imaging for Intra-Abdominal Tumor Examination and Resection

Jingyan Wu
Project – Identification and Characterization of Novel Genes Involved in tRNA Biogenesis, Stability and Subcellular Movement

Helong Zhao
Project – Role of Slit-Robo in LPS-Induced Endothelial Inflammation and Gastric/Colorectal Cancer Angiogenesis and Development