2021 Fall Postdoctoral Candidate Pelotonia Scholars
Learn more about the postdoctoral candidates who received a scholarship award in the Fall of 2021.
2021 Fall Postdoctoral Candidate Pelotonia Scholars
Heng-Yi Chen, PhD
Major: Immunology
Project: TET-mediated Epigenetic Regulation in B-Cell Malignancies
Mentor: Chan-Wang Jerry Lio, PhD
Idea Inspiration: My grandfather passed due to cancer several years ago. I hope my work can prevent more needless cancer casualties.
Silvio de Araujo Fernandes Junior, PhD
Major: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Pathology
Project: DNA-caged Erasable Label Technologies for Multiplexed Histological Imaging in Primary Brain Tumors.
Mentor: Jessica Winter, PhD
Idea Inspiration: My project inspiration is developing DNA-Cages techniques to improve critical decisions for the most aggressive brain tumors diagnostic.
Chinmayee Goda, PhD
Major: Cancer Biology
Project: Remodeling of the Bone Marrow Vasculature is Required for Leukemic Progression
Mentor: Adrienne Dorrance, PhD and Ramiro Garzon, MD
Idea Inspiration: Our aim is to identify novel factors that can be targeted to improve outcome of acute myeloid leukemia patients.
Satishkumar Singh, PhD
Major: Life Sciences
Project: Targeting of Ibrutinib Resistance in Activated B-Cell Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma.
Mentor: Lalit Sehgal, PhD and Lapo Alinari, MD, PhD
Idea Inspiration: The loss of my mother to leukemia ignited the zest in me to select cancer research as my career.
James Sledziona, PhD
Major: Cancer Biology and Toxicology
Project: Investigating Metabolic Effects of Stearoyl CoA Desaturases in Early Colorectal Tumor Development.
Mentor: Maria Mihaylova, PhD and Steven Clinton, MD, PhD.
Idea Inspiration: Cancer represents a complex group of diseases, and I want to investigate innovative targets for cancer prevention and therapy.
Ajeet Kumar Verma, PhD
Major: Breast Cancer Progression and Metastasis
Project: Novel Role of Tumor Microbiota in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
Mentor: Ramesh K. Ganju, PhD
Idea Inspiration: We observed a unique microbiota in murine breast tumors and want to establish the molecular mechanisms through which the tumor microbiota modulates breast cancer progression.