2022 Alumni

(From left to right) Top row: Jia (Emma) Zeng, Elena Grajales, Joshua Lau, Andre Deosaran; Bottom row: Timon Lwo, Nawal Panjwani, Amanda Murray, Kaitlyn Pierpont, Brian Simoes

Amritha Anup
Dartmouth College
Mentor: Rob Schwartz
Institution: Weill Cornell Medicine
Project: Modeling Fatty Alcohol Liver Disease with Tissue Spheroids

Andre Deosaran
CUNY City College of New York
Mentor: Kristen Pleil
Institution: Weill Cornell Medicine
Project: Circuit Characterization of PVT Modulation of Stress Cycle

Elena Grajales
University of Pennsylvania
Mentor: Moonsoo Jin
Institution: Weill Cornell Medicine
Project: Engineering ICAM-1 Specific CAR T Cells Secreting BiTEs Against Gastric Cancer

Joshua Lau
UC San Diego
Mentor: Milind Rajadhyksha
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Minimally Supervised Clustering of Clinical Dermatology Images

Timon Lwo
University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Mentor: Ashley Laughney
Institution: Weill Cornell Medicine
Project: Predicting Protein Structural-Functional Changes through Alphafold

Amanda Murray
Clemson University
Mentor: Michael McDevitt
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Sensitizing prostate cancer to alpha particle therapy via exploitation of a synthetic lethal pathway

Nawal Panjwani
New York University
Mentor: Simone Winkler
Institution: Weill Cornell Medicine
Project: A Deep Learning Framework to Improve MRI Safety

Kaitlyn Pierpont
University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Mentor: Dan Heller
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Characterizing the Immune Landscape of Bone Marrow Transplant Induced Acute Kidney Injury for the Development of Targeted Nanotherapeutics

Brian Simoes
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Mentor: Kayvan Keshari
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Development of a Microfluidic Device for Real-Time analysis of metabolic flux using NMR microcoil

Jia (Emma) Zeng
Colgate University
Mentor: Dan Heller
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Development of Molecular Recognition Based Nanosensor for IL6 Detection
2021 Alumni

Gabriella Baraks
SUNY Stony Brook
Mentor: Stephen Solomon
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Investigating Metabolic Vulnerabilities in High and Low NRF2 Expressing Cells After Ischemia

Simon Blanchard
Villanova University
Mentor: Michael McDevitt
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Analysis of Changing DNA Repair Pathways in Response to Repeated Alpha Particle Therapy

Savannah Chatman
Scripps College
Mentor: Dan Heller
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Implantable sensor for Niemann Pick Type A and B

Daniella Jimenez
City College of New York
Mentor: Jan Grimm
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Characterizing Feraheme Uptake in Cancer Cells

Bryce Katch
Pennsylvania State University
Mentor: Alexandros Pertsinidis
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Automated Imaging of Genome Topology in Mammalian Cells

Andoni Nolasco
Columbia University
Mentor: Rajadhyaskha Millind
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Towards Immune Mapping of the Tumor Microenvironment

Eeshaan Rehani
University of Texas, Austin
Mentor: Travis Hollmann
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Immune Selection Under Evolution Across Metastases in Breast ER+ Invasive Ductal Carcinoma

Isabella Richter
Vanderbilt University
Mentor: Dan Heller
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Development of Lipid Nanoparticles for Drug and mRNA Delivery

Ana Rosu
Johns Hopkins University
Mentor: Kayvan Keshari
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Method of Quick Injection into Nanocoil for Hyperpolarized MRI
2020 Alumni

Francesca Denise Abulencia
Emory University
Mentor: Kayvan Keshari
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: IDEAL Separation of DHA, Vitamin C, and Urea

Anabel Alfonso
The Georgia Institute of Technology
Mentor: Milind Rahadhyaksha
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Dynamic Imaging of Microvasculature in the Tumor-microenvironment

Joseph Asfouri
Rice University
Mentor: Kristen Pleil
Institution: Weill Cornell Medicine
Project: Release of CRF by the sexually-dimorphic BNST induces binge alcohol drinking and anxiety disorders

Kevin Cavallo
Cornell University
Mentor: Daniel Heller
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Genomic Database Search for Oncogene Expression Profiles

Tara Foley
Johns Hopkins University
Mentor: Daniel Heller
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Effect of RNA Splicing on Mu-Opioid Receptors

Jessica Su
Johns Hopkins University
Mentor: Conor Liston
Institution: Weill Cornell Medicine
Project: Deep Breath Detection in fMRI Scans
2019 Alumni

(From left to right) Top row: Fayyaz Ahamed, Qiyue Peng, Elizabeth Rieger; Middle row: Amish Patel, Yuzhou (Evelyn) Tong; Bottom row: Jolie Feldman, Erin Keblish, Lainie Eisner, Allison Chen

Fayyaz Ahamed
University of California, Berkeley
Mentor: Kayvan Keshari
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Real-Time Detection of Metabolic Flux and Drug Response in Melanoma Cells Using a Micromagnetic Resonance Spectrometer

Allison Chen
University of San Diego
Mentor: Daniel Heller
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: A Tumor-selective Nanoparticle for Delivery of a novel MYC inhibitor

Lainie Eisner
University of Michigan
Mentor: Suzanne Maher
Institution: Hospital for Special Surgery
Project: Mimicking Activities of Daily Living in Cadaveric Simulated Gait

Jolie Feldman
Duke University
Mentor: Michael McDevitt
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: NLRP3 Inflammasome and Cytokine Cross-talk in Acute Kidney Injury Pathogenesis

Erin Keblish
City College of New York
Mentor: Kristin Pleil
Institution: Weill Cornell Medicine
Project: Development of a Multi-Channel Fiber Photometry System

Amish Patel
Rutgers University
Mentor: Alex Kentsis
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Development of Next Generation of Peptidomimetic Inhibitor Targeting MYB:CBP/P300 Complex in Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Qiyue Peng
Columbia University
Mentor: Daniel Heller
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Defect Tailored Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: Optical Nanosensor to Measure the Warburg Effect Intratumorally

Elizabeth Rieger
University of Pennsylvania
Mentor: Conor Liston
Institution: Weill Cornell Medicine
Project: Elucidating the Involvement of Somatostatin Interneurons in Working Memory Through Optogenetic Inhibition in Mice

Yuzhou Tong
University of San Diego
Mentor: Moonsoo Jin
Institution: Weill Cornell Medicine
Project: Dual CAR-T Therapy Targeting ICAM1 and HER2 in Breast Cancer
2018 Alumni

(From left to right) Top row: Miriam Saffern, Hill Chang, Abigail Ayers, Naedum DomNwachukwu, Darren Lin; Bottom row: Carmine Wang See, Kitty Liu, John Nyugen, Kimberly Crowley, Kristin Ludwicki

Abigail Ayers
Vanderbilt University
Mentor: Daniel Heller
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Carbon Nanotube Probes for Detection of Electrophysiological Activity in Excitable Cells

Hill Chang
Rutgers University
Mentor: Alexandros Pertsinidis
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Observing the dynamics of small-molecule p300/CBP inhibition at the single gene level in live cells

Kimberly Crowley
Washington University
Mentor: Govind Srimathveeravalli
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Medical Device for Uniform Ablation of the Urothelial Lining in a Rat Bladder

Naedum DomNwachukwu
Cornell University
Mentor: Michelle Bradbury
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Engineering of sdAb-functionalized Cornell Prime Dots for Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Targeting

Darren Lin
City College of New York
Mentor: Kayvan Keshari
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: The Effect of Substrate Stiffness on Breast Cancer Cell Metabolism and Morphology

Kitty Liu
Stony Brook University
Mentor: Jan Grimm Memorial
Institution: Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Multifunctional Rhodamine Doped Silica Nanoparticle for Prostate Cancer Theranostics

Kristin Ludwicki
Siena College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Mentor: Kayvan Keshari
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Scalable Cell-Microencapsulation Method for Metabolic Flux Analysis in 3D Culture System

John Nyugen
Cooper Union
Mentor: Govind Srimathveeravalli
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Voxel-based 3D Printing Method to Design Anatomically Informed Textured Phantoms for the Assessment of Medical Imaging Equipment

Miriam Saffern
Columbia University
Mentor: Michael McDevitt
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Disruption of macrophage CD47-SIRPα immune checkpoint via siRNA-mediated knockdown of SIRPA

Carmine Wang See
City College of New York
Mentor: Amber Simpson
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Prediction of Histologic Growth Patterns from Preoperative CT Imaging via Machine Learning