Student Award Recipients
Fall 2021
CANCER RESEARCH AWARDS
(Awarded $67,500 for students and research expenses)
Anatomy & Physiology
Grace Calo – Mentor: Masaaki Tamura
Oral administration of euglena water extract increases IgA cell number in MALT which may help attenuating lung tumor growth
Morgan Phillips – Mentor: Masaaki Tamura
Study of the effect of a newly designed inhibitory peptide for CTLA-4 on NK cell activation and function and its effect on lung carcinoma cell growth
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics
Hanna Miller – Mentor: Om Prakash
Understanding the molecular recognition basis of EGFR inhibitors for cancer treatment
Taryn Lubbers – Mentor: John Tomich
Peptide nanocarrier delivery of mRNA vaccines for treating melanomas
Carson Gido – Mentor: Brian Geisbrecht
Inhibition of neutrophil serine proteases by EAP domain proteins
Chemistry
Mae Cook – Mentor: Duy Hua
Quantitative detection and profiling of selected overexpressed proteases for monitoring of metastatic triple-negative breast cancer
Qiling Zeng – Mentor: Ping Li
Development of inhibitors to carcinogenic NTMT1
Kaden Creamer – Mentor: Ping Li
Continued efforts of PhaC crystallization for cancer drug delivery using PHA
Jane Eilers – Mentor: Christer Aakeroy
Improving bioavailability of selenium-based anti-tumor mimics
Biology
Ashley Panagakis – Mentor: Kathrin Schrick
Bio-layer interferometry analysis of cancer driver mutations in oncogene 5MP1
Hailey Casey – Mentor: Katsura Asano
Mechanism of transcriptional regulation with relevance to gene expression in cancer cells
Taylor Bugbee – Mentor: Nick Wallace
Effects of p300 inhibition on chemotherapeutic cytotoxicity in pancreatic cancers
Ashlyn Bugbee – Mentor: Kalyani Payaram
Role of antioxidant protein Nrf2 in metabolism and anti-tumor activities of CD8+ T-cells
Lucy Fischer – Mentor: Govind Veddiyappan
Efflux pump inhibitors for multidrug-resistant bacterial infections in cancer patients
Mikaela Garcia-Escamilla – Mentor: Thomas Mueller
The role of tumor-suppressor gene Lhx6 during cellular migration of GABAergic interneurons in the zebrafish forebrain
Emily Cranwell – Mentor: Thomas Mueller
Analyzing cFos expression patterns in zebrafish models of cancer using deep machine learning
Abigail Parker – Mentor: Ruth Welti
Subcellular localization of putative transacylase
Claire Richardson– Mentor: Jocelyn McDonald
Role of nuclear shape during collective cell migration and invasion
Caleb Kutz – Mentor: Jocelyn McDonald
Genetic screen to identify protein kinases conserved in tumor invasion and metastasis
Davanté Hammer – Mentor: Sherry Fleming
Effect of novel peptides on tumor associated macrophage phenotype
Mia Thompson – Mentor: Sherry Fleming
Macrophage Phenotypes in Mouse Melanoma
Kennedy Ayre – Mentor: Ruth Welti
Characterization of a mutation in a gene potentially affecting tissue senescence
Hieu Nguyen – Mentor: Kathrin Schrick
A novel transcriptional activation domain relevant to cancer cell regulation
History
Louie Cabrera – Mentor: Heather McCrea
Meeting at the margins: Approaches to cancer in Navajo communities
Music, Theater & Dance
Savannah Parks – Mentor: Katie Digby
Effect of gentle dance on cancer treatment side effects
Philosophy
Indera Coffel – Mentor: Shay Logan
Investigating the impacts of correlation in iterated treatment decisions
Plant Pathology
Daniel Tran – Mentor: Richard Todd
Identification of functional domains in a mediator complex component with a human counterpart involved in breast and prostate cancers
HEART RESEARCH AWARD
(Awarded: $9,652 – Requested: 9,652)
Olivia Kunkel – Mentor: Brad Behnke
Protective effects of heat therapy against breast cancer-induced cardiac dysfunction
Stephen Hammond – Mentor: Carl Ade
The intersection of cancer and thromboembolism: A role for eNOS?
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