We are incredibly proud of the nine PSTP students who presented their projects at the 2022 American Physician Scientists Association (APSA) Northeast Regional Conference held on January 15 and 16, 2022. Their exciting projects are listed below!
Akanksha Chilukuri, MS2
Project title: ERK5 inhibition in pediatric glioblastoma leads to decreased activation of PFKFB3 and glycolysis
Mentor: Sameer Agnihotri, PhD
Nandini Doshi, MS2
Project title: Transcriptomic Profiling Identifies Drivers of Invasive Lobular Carcinoma Metastasis in Mouse Xenograft Model
Mentor: Adrian Lee, PhD
Joey Hsu, Research Year
Project title: Left Rostral Prefrontal Connectivity Links Thalamic Stimulation to Changes in Abstraction
Mentor: Jorge Gonzalez-Martinez, MD, PhD
Nikita Kedia, MS2
Project title: Assessing biomarkers for monitoring cerebral autoregulation at the respiration frequency using near infrared spectroscopy
Mentor: Jana Kainerstorfer, PhD
Shweta Kitchloo, MS2
Project title: A 3-D cell culture model of the nasopharynx reveals cell-type-specific susceptibility to Epstein-Barr virus infection
Mentor: Kathy Shair, PhD
Julia Knight, Research Year
Project title: ALDH inhibitors as a modulator of ovarian tumor-associated macrophages
Mentor: Anda Vlad, MD, PhD
Srividya Kottapalli, MS1
Project title: Interaction of Tim-3 and Phosphatidylserine in the tumor microenvironment
Mentor: Lawrence Kane, PhD
Madeline Ross, MS2
Project title: PINK1 regulates mitochondrial egress in primary cortical mouse neurons
Mentor: Charleen Chu, MD, PhD
Meena Sethuraman, MS2
Project title: Testing variants of uncertain significance in a HEK293T model for very long-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency
Mentor: Jerry Vockley, MD, PhD
For more information on the conference, visit the following website: https://www.northeast.physicianscientists.org/