These $3,000 stipends support summer research projects by graduate or medical school students over an 8-to-12-week period for cancer-related basic, clinical/translational, or population science research conducted under the mentorship of a UVM Cancer Center Full or Associate Member. In addition to the student stipend, each mentor’s lab is awarded up to $1,000 to cover project-related expenses.
Nine exceptional applications were judged to merit award:
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Student Researcher
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Mentor
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Research Project
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Jennifer Chen
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Thomas Ahern, PhD, MPH
Surgery
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Racial and geographic disparities in breast lymphedema
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Randi Gravelle
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Brian Cunniff, PhD
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
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Mitochondrial dynamics support breast cancer tumorigenesis
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Kanayo Ikeh
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Nimrat Chatterjee, PhD
Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
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Unraveling the functional dynamics of REV1 during cancer cell response to therapy
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Ellen Mats
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Shahid Ahmed, MBBS
Hematology & Oncology
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The Influence of Bacteria on the Formation of an Immune-Escaped Bladder Cancer: A Pilot Correlative Study
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Gopika Nandagopal
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Alan Howe, PhD
Pharmacology
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Investigating the STK11 C-terminal domain in lung cancer
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Arjune Nibber
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David Seward, MD, PhD
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
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Characterization of STK11 Missense Variants Using Prime Editing
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Shannon Prior, Juckett Summer Student Scholar
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Paula Deming, PhD
Biomedical & Health Sciences
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Investigating metabolic rewiring in progression of STK11-null lung cancer: glutamine dependence and the hexosamine biosynthetic pathway
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Alyssa Richman
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Seth Frietze, PhD
Biomedical & Health Sciences
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Epigenetic Analysis of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
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Jennifer Toner
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Peter Kaufman, MD
Hematology & Oncology
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Correlating Properties of Breast Cancer Organoids to Patient's Tumor Information
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In addition to the research projects, the students will participate in an end-of-program poster session.