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2010 Graduate Pelotonia Fellows

Jennifer Ahn-Jarvis
Graduate program: Food Science and Nutrition
Project: Evaluating Bioavailability of Isoflavones Delivered by Soy Bread in Men with Recurring Prostate Cancer and Rising Prostate Specific Antigen
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Christina Austin
Graduate program: Molecular Genetics
Project: Ligand Specificity in EGFR signaling in Drosophila melanogaster
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Edward Briercheck
Graduate program: Medical Scientist Program (MSP)
Project: The role of PTEN in human natural killer cell function
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Huizi Chen
Graduate program: Medical Scientist Program (MSP
Project: Atypical mammalian repressors E2F7 & E2F8 link hepatocyte endocycle regulation with tumor suppression
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Hsiao-Ching Chuang
Graduate program: Medicinal Chemistry & Pharmacognosy
Project: Combining poly-(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors with FTY-720 as a novel therapeutic approach for triple-negative breast cancer
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Nripesh Dhungel
Graduate program: Molecular Genetics
Project: tRNA splicing endonuclease:Investigating novel functions
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Zhongqi Ge
Graduate program: Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology (MCDB)
Project: Role of acetylation of newly synthesized histone H4 in DNA repair linked chromatin reassembly
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April Renee Sandy Gocha
Graduate program: Integrated Biomedical Science Graduate Program (IBGP)
Project: BRCA1 and RecQ-like helicases in the control of telomere maintenance
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Geoffrey Gonzalez
Graduate program: Microbiology
Project: Establishment of Salmonella gallbladder carriage: role in hepatobiliary carcinoma
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Brian J Hutzen
Graduate program: Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology (MCDB)
Project: Treatment of Medulloblastoma with Re-targeted Oncolytic Measles Viruses
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Huayang Liu
Graduate program: Molecular Genetics
Project: A novel genome-wide screen to identify novel regulators of the tumor microenvironment
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Justin Andrew North
Graduate program: Physics (Experimental Biophysics)
Project: A study of the molecular mechanism by which human Rad51 and MSH2/MSH6 clear their own path for DNA repair
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Sundaresan Raman
Graduate program: Computer Science & Engineering
Project: A Framework for Analysis of Vasculature Phenotypes in the Tumor Microenvironment
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Shreyas S. Rao
Graduate program: Chemical Engineering
Project: Brain Mimetic Biomaterials for Investigating Tumor Cell Migration
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Maurisa Flynn Riley
Graduate program: Molecular Genetics
Project: Examining post-transcriptional regulation of the Notch pathway by microRNAs
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Amit Sharma
Graduate program: Molecular Genetics
Project: Novel translation control strategy of junD protooncogene, a modulator of neoplastic transformation
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Hosung Sim
Graduate program : Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology (MCDB)
Project: Molecular orchestration between cancer cells and microenvironment for brain tumor progression: Activation of PDGF signaling by tumor-secreted proteoglycans
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David A. Taffany
Graduate program: Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (MCDB)
Project: Ets2-Mediated Global Genetic and Epigenetic Alterations to the Myeloid Genome Throughout the Course of Tumor Progression
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Chuang Tan
Graduate program: Chemical Physics
Project: The repair dynamics of UV-induced DNA damage by Photolyase
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Bo Wang
Graduate program: Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology (MCDB)
Project: Role of Cancer Stem Cells in Choline Deficient and Ethionine Supplemented (CDE) diet-induced hepatocarcinogenesis in liver-specific miR-122 knockout mice
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Jamie N. Wolf 
Graduate program: Molecular Genetics
Project: Roles of RNA Polymerases IV and V RNA-Directed DNA Methylation of Geminivirus DNA
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Salene M. Wu
Graduate program: Psychology
Project: Relationship of General and Health-related Anxiety and Worry to Markers of Inflammation in Women with Recurrent Cancer
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