College MD-PhD Directory
- Anngela Adams, CTS PhD student – Determinants of the immune response in cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma.
- Vedanshi Bhargava, CTS PhD student – Alzheimer’s using neuroimaging.
- Elizabeth Borden, Clinical Translational Sciences (CTS) PhD student – Neoantigens in cancer immunology.
- Benjamin Conner, CTS PhD student – Biomechanics, movement disorders, and wearable devices.
- Ashley Guest, CTS PhD student, Neurology – Mechanism of deep brain stimulation.
- Dominic Julian, medical student – Neuroscience, neuroimmunology and iPSCs.
- Annika Ozols, medical student – Neuroscience, molecular mechanisms underlying neuropsychiatric illness, translational medicine.
College Clinical Research Program Directory
MS
- Syed Hamid, Cardiovascular – Myocardial infarction, heart disease.
- Matthew Steed, Clinical applications of anti-PD1/anti-PD-L1 therapies.
College and UAHS CTS Directory
PhD
- Brandon Barba, Clinical Informatics & Data Science.
- Shoma Bommena, Internal Medicine – Hepatology and gastroenterology.
- Tala Curry, Child Health.
- Sean Dunn, Center for Applied Nano Bioscience and Medicine (ANBM) – Organ-on-Chip Technologies (bioengineering).
- Christina Gallante, Basic Medical Sciences – Cancer biology, hematology, stem cell biology, RNA splicing.
- Ashkan Khanishayan, Center for Applied Nano Bioscience and Medicine (ANBM) – Point-of-care device whose technology is vertical flow immunoassay to detect biodosimetry biomarkers from whole blood.
- Lakshmi Madhavpeddi, Basic Medical Sciences – Prenatal programming of cardiovascular function.
- Monique Martinez.
- Forest Melton – Health disparities, heart disease and cancer.
- Rana Mekha – Drug Discovery in cancer research.
- Danyelle Paine, Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen).
- Lauren Reyes, Internal Medicine – Cancer biology and drug discovery.
- Natascha Schippel – Cancer biology, stem cell biology, hematology, post-translational RNA modifications.
- Nicolle Hipschman, Internal Medicine – Drug discovery targeting liver fibrosis and cancer.
- Trevor Wendt, Basic Medical Sciences – Cerebrovascular physiology following ischemic stroke.
MS
- Shoma Bommena, Internal Medicine – Hepatology and gastroenterology.
- Connor Leighty, Child Health – Traumatic brain injury.
- Nicole Sherwood, Center for Applied Nano Bioscience and Medicine (ANBM) – Tumor on a chip.
Graduate Program Alumni
- Marisol Allen, Master in Medical Studies.
- Ariana Cano, Master in Medical Studies.
- Reem Faraj, Internal Medicine – Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS).
- Christian Godina, Master's in Medical Studies.
- Tabitha Green, PhD in Clinical Translational Science.
- Marvin Alfredo Hernandez, Master in Medical Studies.
- Isrealia (Izzie) Jado, Master's in Medical Studies.
- Nicole Quintus, Master in Clinical Translational Science.
- Rozabel Peterson, TGen – Mitochondrial disease through iPSCs.
- Inad Rabadi, Master in Clinical Translational Science.
- Bre’Anca Sanders, Master in Medical Studies.
- Emily Tsutsumi (Szeto), TGen – Tumor suppressor ING4 in breast cancer.