Previous Graduate Student Pelotonia Scholars

2015 Graduate Student Pelotonia Scholars

Learn more about the graduate students who received a scholarship award in 2015.

Jeremy Borniger
Project – Assessing the Role of Neuroinflammation in Cancer and Chemotherapy-Induced Sleep Disruption

Mark Calhoun
Project – Evaluation of Microenvironmental Cues Towards the Identification of Novel Drug Targets

Amanda Campbell
Project – Regulation of the Natural Killer Cell Anti-Tumor Response by Myeloid-Derived Immune Cells

David Ciarlariello
Project – Interferon Gamma Promotes Natural Killer Cell-Specific Immunoevasive Strategies in Multiple Myeloma

Daniel Comiskey
Project – Modulating MDM2 Alternative Splicing to Control Tumor Progression

Nicholas Denton
Project – Tumor Associated Macrophages Mitigate Herpes Simplex Oncolytic Virus Therapy

Shuai Dong
Project – Unraveling the Role of PI3K p110-δ in T-Cell Immunomodulation in Leukemia

Rebecca Hennessey
Project – The Role of Ultraviolet (UV) Light in NRAS Mutant Melanoma

Michael Hoover
Project – Determining the Regulatory role of Histone H1.4 Phosphorylation in Breast Cancer

Spenser Hughes
Project – Parasympathetic Activity, Pain, Cancer-Related Intrusive Thoughts and Cancer-Related Fatigue During Breast Cancer Survivorship

Chris Koivisto
Project – Characterizing the Effects of Dietary-Induced Obesity and PTEN Loss-of-Function in Development and Progression of Endometrial Carcinoma

Cassandra Moyer
Project – Characterization of Novel BRIP1 Variants in Early-Onset Breast Cancer

Nivedita Ratnam
Project – NF-kB Mediated Suppression of Macrophage Activity During Initiation of Cancer

Morgan Schrock
Project – Characterization of DNA Damage in Fhit-Ddeficient Stem Cells and Tissue Progenitors Cells: Informing the Origin of Cancer Stem Cells

Emily Smith
Project – Arginine Methylation as an Epigenetic Driver of B Cell Transformation

Kun-Yu Teng
Project – Development of Novel Therapy for Hepatocellular Cancer in Preclinical Models

Katie Thies
Project – The Role of PU.1 in Macrophages During Breast Cancer Metastasis

Allison Webb
Project – Identification of Pax Protein Coordination of EGF Pathway Activity in Signaling and Responding Cells

Travis Westbrook
Project – Biobehavioral Studies of Cancer-Specific Stress in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia

Zhen Yu
Project – Design of Anticancer Catalytic Metallodrugs That Selectively Shorten G-quadruplex Telomeric DNA

Walter Zahurancik
Project – Kinetic Basis for Tumorigenesis by Cancer-Associated Pol? Exonuclease Domain Mutants