Darya Alizadeh, MS Molecular Biology, Cal State Fullerton
Research focus: Cancer chemoimmunotherapy
Research Advisors: Emmanuel Katsanis, MD, and Nicolas Larmonier, PhD
Corbie Ball, BS Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Arizona
Research focus: Smad3 and Colon Cancer
Research Advisor: Thomas Doetschman, PhD
Lipsa Das, MS, Biotechnology and Biochemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technoloy Kharagpur
Research focus: Studying laminin receptor endocytosis in tumor cell migration
Research Advisor: Anne Cress, PhD
Shannon Fortin, BS Biochemistry, Arizona State University
Research focus: Molecular mediators of cell motility in glioblastoma multiforme
Research Advisor: Nhan Tran, PhD and Suwon Kim, PhD
Nadia Hassounah, BS Zoology, North Carolina State University
Research focus: Primary cilia in prostate cancer progression
Research Advisor: Kimberly McDermott, PhD
Aaron Havas, BS, Veterinary Science, University of Arizona
Research focus: TBD
Research Advisor: Cathy Smith, PhD
Kristy Lee, BS Biology, University of Utah
Research focus: H2O2 in glucocorticoid-induced apoptosis
Research Advisor: Margaret Briehl, PhD
Benjamin Onyeagucha, BS Biochemistry, MS Cell and Molecular Biology, San Francisco State University
Research focus: mRNA-101 regulates the expression of the prostaglandin EP4 receptor in colon cancers
Research Advisor: Mark Nelson, PhD
Edwin Paz, BS Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles
Research focus: Mechanisms of Polyamine Mediated Post-Transcriptional Regulation
Research Advisor: Eugene Gerner, PhD
Bethany Remeniuk, BS Biology, York College of Pennsylvania
Research focus: Cancer and bone pain
Research Advisor: Frank Porreca, PhD
Brenna Rheinheimer, BS Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona
Research focus: The Slit-Robo axis on pancreatic cancer
Research Advisor: Ron Heimark, PhD
Cynthia Sandoval, BS, Physiology, University of Arizona
Research focus: Determining the role of alpha6 Integrin in collective cell migration via tubulogenesis
Research Advisor: Anne Cress, PhD
Hsin-Yuan "Steven" Su, MS Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, National Taiwan University
Research focus: How oncogenic protein interaction promotes signal transduction and facilitates cell transformation
Research Advisor: Joyce Schroeder, PhD
Caleb Sutherland, BS Biology, Boise State University
Research focus: Investigation into the role of DNA secondary structures, g-quadruplex and i-motif, in transcriptional control of bcl-2
Research Advisor: Laurence Hurley, PhD
Jesse Trujillo, BS Microbiology, Northern Arizona Unversity
Research Focus: Bile acid induced colon cancer
Research Advisor: Jesse Martinez, PhD