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2013 Postdoctoral Candidate Pelotonia Scholars

Learn more about the postdoctoral candidates who received a scholarship award in 2013.

Gregory Adams, PhD
Project – Thrombin Promotes Prostate Cancer Progression

William Cantara, PhD
Project – Structural Characterization of the 5'-UTR of the Oncogenic HTLV-1 Retrovirus

Dalia Elgamal, PhD
Project – PRMT5 Dysregulation as a Driver Event in Richter's Transformation

Luiz Henrique de Lima Araujo, MD
Project – Circulating microRNAs in Non-Small Cell Lung cancer Treated with Vandetanib

Alena Jamie-Ramirez, PhD
Project – Oncolytic Virotherapy and Immunotherapy for the Treatment of Brain Tumors

Divya Kensanakurti, PhD
Project: Role of PAK4 in Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition and Stemness in Malignant Gliomas

Kara Keplinger, MD
Project – P21-Activated Kinase as a Therapeutic Target in Papillary Thyroid Cancer

Priya Londhe, PhD
Project – Microvesicle Induced Cell Death in Cancer Cachexia

Annette Ratcliff, PhD
Project – Defining the Role of Fatty Acid Synthase in HTLV-1 Replication and T lymphocyte Transformation

Eric Samordnitsky, PhD
Project – Modeling Acquired Resistance to Molecularly-Targeted Cancer Therapies Through Next Generation Sequencing

Gina (Bernardo) Sizemore, PhD
Project – Evaluating Fibroblast-Specifc PDGFR-Alpha in the Promotion of Mammary Tumorigenesis

Ramon Sun, PhD
Project – Glucose-Dependent Repression of Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Activity Enhances Tumor Metabolism.

Christopher Walker, PhD
Project – Identification and Characterization of Novel Mutations in Endometrial Carcinoma

Hai Wang, PhD
Project – A Hybrid Nanoparticle System for Targeted Co-Delivery of Chemo, Gene and Photothermal Therapies