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

Posted by on Tuesday, May 27, 2025 in Honors and Awards .

NameGraduate Program (Mentor)Dissertation
Hailey (Kresge) Adegboye, PhDNeuroscience (Angela Jefferson, PhD)Utilizing Plasma Proteomics to Identify Novel Biomarkers of Cognitive Aging
Riley Bergman, PhDCancer Biology (Ben Ho Park, MD, PhD)Clinical, Biological, and Molecular Impacts of SF3B1 Hotspot Mutations in Breast Cancer
Avery Bogart, PhDMolecular Pathology & Immunology (Lorraine Ware, MD)Mechanisms of Cell-Free Hemoglobin-Mediated Injury to the Endothelial Glycocalyx During Sepsis
Xavier Bledsoe, PhDHuman Genetics (Eric Gamazon, PhD and Nancy Cox, PhD)Investigating the Effect of Genetically Regulated Gene Expression on Neurological, Cardiovascular, and Psychiatric Health
Eric Donahue, PhDCell & Developmental Biology (Kris Burkewitz, PhD)ER-phagy Drives Conserved, Age-Related Remodeling of the Endoplasmic Reticulum and Promotes Longevity
Derek Doss, PhDBiomedical Engineering (Dario Englot, MD, PhD)Consciousness, Cognition, and Connectivity: An Investigation in Focal Epilepsy
Monika Grabowska, PhDBiomedical 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, PhDBiomedical Engineering (Eben Rosenthal, MD)The Role of Fibroblast Activation Protein in Antibody-Based Drug Delivery and Efficacy
Ansley Kunnath, PhDNeuroscience (Mark Wallace, PhD and Rene Gifford, PhD)Multisensory Integration and Neuroplasticity in Adults with Cochlear Implants
Allie Lake, PhDHuman Genetics (Lea Davis, PhD)Leveraging electronic health records to evaluate gene-by environment interactions in psychiatry
Thomas Li, PhDBiomedical 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, PhDCancer Biology (Vivian Weiss, MD, PhD)Multi-Omic Characterization of Thyroid Cancer Evolution
Yasminye Pettway, PhDMolecular 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, PhDMicrobe-Host Interactions (Maria Hadjifrangiskou, PhD)Urinary Tract Infections Through the Lens of the Urinary Microbiome
Mark Rusznak, PhDMolecular Pathology & Immunology (Stokes Peebles, MD)QTL Mapping with Collaborative Cross Mice Identifies FFAR3 as a Target for ILC2 Anti-Inflammatory Reprogramming
John Shelley, PhDBiomedical Informatics (Jonathan Mosley, MD, PhD)Benign genetic variation in biomarkers leads to clinical misclassification and overtreatment.