Previous Graduate Student Pelotonia Scholars

2016 Graduate Student Pelotonia Scholars

Learn more about the graduate students who received a scholarship award in 2016.

Amruta Ashtekar
Project – Role of Mitochondrial Metabolism and Tumor Suppressor SDHD in Thyroid Cancer

Andrea Patterson
Project – Stromal Paracrine Signaling in the Mechanism of Mammary Reprogramming Following In Utero Exposure to BPA

Bonnie Harrington
Project – Enhancing Antitumor Immunity for Treatment of Mantle Cell Lymphoma

Bradley Cotten
Project – Bioavailability and Activity of Dietary Flavonoids to Alter Cancer Cachexia in a Mouse Model

Chi-Ling Chiang
Project – A Microchannel Electroporation Array Enables Identification and Characterization of Leukemic Stem Cells in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia

Christina Knippler
Project – Characterization of the BRAF-PAK Complex in Thyroid Cancer

Daniel Dayeh
Project – SAPHIRE: A Novel Method for Sequence-Specific Targeting of Cancer-Mediating RNA

David Frankhouser
Project – Dietary n-3 Fatty Acids and Breast Cancer Prevention: Effects on DNA Methylation in Breast Tissue and Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells

Grant Foglesong
Project – Leptin Mediates the Anti-Breast Cancer Effects of Environmental Enrichment in Mice

Kara Braunreiter
Project – Understanding Regulation of Oscillatory Gene Expression and Its Role in Differentiation

Luke Russell
Project – Characterization of the Oncolytic and Immune Effects of RAPTOR: A Novel Oncolytic Herpes Simplex Virus 1 Expressing PTEN-L for Glioblastoma Therapy In Vitro and In Vivo

Samantha Ohmer
Project – The Effect of Pregnancy on Hepatitis C Liver Disease and Cancer Risk

Tasha Wilkie
Project – The Role of Chronic Inflammatory Environment in Promoting Breast Cancer Progression

Yajun Liu
Project – Regulation of the Membrane Binding of F-BAR Protein Rga7 by the Novel Protein Rng10 During Cytokinesis

Yao Wan
Project – Novel Functions of Actin Cytoskeleton and Mitochondrial Proteins in Splicing of tRNAs

Yo-Ting Tsai
Project – In Vivo Impact of BRAFV600E on Tumor-Mediated Immune Suppression