Current and Former Trainees
Predoctoral Trainees
Lauren Brumage
Elucidated genetic drivers of chemoresistance in small cell lung cancer
Mentors: David MacPherson & Patrick Paddison
Alejandra Cabrera
The molecular regulation of E-cadherin dynamics during cell dissemination
Mentors: Young Kwon & Barry Gumbiner
Saumya Jani
Deciphering the TCR-ome to advance cancer immunotherapy
Mentors: Paul Nghiem & Phil Bradley
Alexandre Germanos
Inspecting the molecular mechanisms and cellular consequences of mRNA-specific translation in AR-low prostate cancer
Mentors: Andrew Hsieh & Raphael Gottardo
Postdoctoral Trainees
Rashmi Mishra
Deciphering the role of mRNA translation in development and oncogenic cell fate choices
Mentors: Andrew Hsieh & Slobodan Beronja
Jorge Galeano-Nino
Assessing the role of Fusobacterium nucleatum in shaping the immune landscape and metastatic potential of colorectal cancer
Mentors: Susan Bullman & Christopher Johnston
Namita Hattangady
Role of immune microenvironment in colorectal cancer initiation and progression
Mentors: William Grady & Geoffrey Hill
Megan Molina
Trojan horse" Regulatory T-cells to Reprogram the Tumor Microenvironment
Mentors: Andrew Oberst & David Rawlings
Brad Krajina
Illuminating intercellular signaling in cancer
Mentors: Kevin Cheung & David MacPherson
Michalina Montano
Defining the burden of undiagnosed and untreated HIV in cancer patients in 3 countries
Mentors: Rachel Bender Ignacio & Thomas Uldrick
Former Trainees
Predoctoral Trainees
Thomas Bello / Mentors: Taran Gujral & Pete Nelson / Developing kinase-targeted therapies for late-stage prostate cancer via combined computational modeling and preclinical screening
Miranda Lahman / Mentors: Aude Chapuis & Rolan Strong / Impact of protein processing on leukemia epitope repertoires
Jihoon Lee / Mentors: Masaoki Kawasumi & Robert Eisenman / Myc-associated super-enhancers as epigenetics targets in cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma
Audrey Olshefsky / Mentors: Neil King & Suzie Pun / Synthetic nucleocapsids as a platform for breast tumor-infltrating leukocyte target discovery and therapeutic development
Thomas Pulliam / Mentors: Paul Nghiem, Raphael Gottardo & David Koelle / Characterization of tumor-specific T cells during PD-1 blockade in Merkel cell carcinoma
Postdoctoral Trainees
Aleena Arakaki / Mentors: Taran Gujral & Eric Holland / Identifying molecular regulators and therapeutics for YAP-fusion driven brain cancers
Avraham Bayer / Mentors: Adam Geballe & Harmit Malik / Evolution of MxB restriction of human herpesviruses
Erin Greenwood / Mentors: Kevin Cheung & Christopher Li / Does plasma fibronectin instigate cluster-based metastatis? An interdisciplinary study
Dayoung Kim / Mentors: Jonathan Cooper & James Olson / Elucidating the role of collective cell invasion in pediatric brain tumors