Congratulations to the MSTP students who recently completed their dissertation defenses!

Name Graduate Program (Mentor) Dissertation
Hailey (Kresge) Adegboye, PhD Neuroscience (Angela Jefferson, PhD) Utilizing Plasma Proteomics to Identify Novel Biomarkers of Cognitive Aging
Riley Bergman, PhD Cancer Biology (Ben Ho Park, MD, PhD) Clinical, Biological, and Molecular Impacts of SF3B1 Hotspot Mutations in Breast Cancer
Avery Bogart, PhD Molecular Pathology & Immunology (Lorraine Ware, MD) Mechanisms of Cell-Free Hemoglobin-Mediated Injury to the Endothelial Glycocalyx During Sepsis
Xavier Bledsoe, PhD Human Genetics (Eric Gamazon, PhD and Nancy Cox, PhD) Investigating the Effect of Genetically Regulated Gene Expression on Neurological, Cardiovascular, and Psychiatric Health
Eric Donahue, PhD Cell & Developmental Biology (Kris Burkewitz, PhD) ER-phagy Drives Conserved, Age-Related Remodeling of the Endoplasmic Reticulum and Promotes Longevity
Derek Doss, PhD Biomedical Engineering (Dario Englot, MD, PhD) Consciousness, Cognition, and Connectivity: An Investigation in Focal Epilepsy
Emilie Fisher-Gupta, PhD Molecular Pathology & Immunology (Jeff Rathmell, PhD) Improving Immunotherapies Through Targeting Glutamine Metabolism
Monika Grabowska, PhD Biomedical Informatics (Wei-Qi Wei, MD, PhD) Integrative Computational Approaches to Drug Repurposing for Alzheimer’s Disease: Leveraging Multi-Omics, Electronic Health Records, and Generative AI
Candace Grisham, PhD Biomedical Engineering (Eben Rosenthal, MD) The Role of Fibroblast Activation Protein in Antibody-Based Drug Delivery and Efficacy
Ansley Kunnath, PhD Neuroscience (Mark Wallace, PhD and Rene Gifford, PhD) Multisensory Integration and Neuroplasticity in Adults with Cochlear Implants
Allie Lake, PhD Human Genetics (Lea Davis, PhD) Leveraging electronic health records to evaluate gene-by environment interactions in psychiatry
Thomas Li, PhD Biomedical Engineering (Bennett Landman, PhD) Integrating Chest Imaging and Electronic Health Records Across Time and Modalities in Predictive Models for Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Risk
Matthew Loberg, PhD Cancer Biology (Vivian Weiss, MD, PhD) Multi-Omic Characterization of Thyroid Cancer Evolution
Yasminye Pettway, PhD Molecular Physiology & Biophysics (Al Powers, MD and Marcela Brissova, PhD) Intra- and Inter-cellular Signals Regulate Human Islet Cell Function in Health and Diabetes
Seth Reasoner, PhD Microbe-Host Interactions (Maria Hadjifrangiskou, PhD) Urinary Tract Infections Through the Lens of the Urinary Microbiome
Mark Rusznak, PhD Molecular Pathology & Immunology (Stokes Peebles, MD) QTL Mapping with Collaborative Cross Mice Identifies FFAR3 as a Target for ILC2 Anti-Inflammatory Reprogramming
John Shelley, PhD Biomedical Informatics (Jonathan Mosley, MD, PhD) Benign genetic variation in biomarkers leads to clinical misclassification and overtreatment.

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