Amala Akkiraju
University of California, Berkeley

Mentor: Kayvan Keshari
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Using a Diamond Microscope for Metabolic Imaging

Jessica Das
CUNY Hunter College

Mentor: Agnel Sfeir
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Visualizing Polymerase Theta (POLQ) at DNA Double Strand Breaks

Roberto De Gregorio
CUNY Brooklyn College

Mentor: Jason Lewis
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: PET imaging of acidic tumor microenvironment with 89Zr-labeled membrane inserting peptides

Michael Dimitrov
Adelphi University

Mentor: Jason Lewis
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: yH2AX-a marker for double strand breaks in pancreatic cancer

Ghazal (Hazel) Kamyabi
University of California, Berkeley

Mentor: Jan Grimm
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Doxas for Treatment of Cancer Cells

Dennis Kinyua
Brown University

Mentor: Philipp Niethammer
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Using cPla2 as a mechano-sensor to study nuclear membrane mechanics in live cultured cells

Julia (Kat) McKinnis
John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Mentor: Vladimir Ponomarev
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Developing novel, noninvasive approaches for longitudinal in vivo imaging of T lymphocyte and tumor cell fate

Kaitlin Rhee
University of California, Berkeley

Mentor: Nagavarakishore Pillarsetty
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Synthesis and evaluation of PET imaging probes

Shanjeed Ali
Hunter College

Mentor: Jason Lewis
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Imaging Activated Vγ9Vδ2 T-cells Utilizing Phosphoantigen Binding to the BTN3A1 Protein and Click Chemistry

Gregory Cain
Harvard University

Mentor: Jan Grimm
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Rosemary Chen
Brown University

Mentor: Michelle Bradbury
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Nanotechnology and Molecular Imaging in Surgical Applications

Nina Filippone
Binghamton University

Mentor: Thomas Reiner
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Development validation and translational of novel imaging agents

Julia Gutierrez
New York University

Mentor: Nagavakishore Pillarsetty
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: PET probes for identifying cancer subtypes

Rebecca Litvak
Hunter College

Mentor: Vladimir Ponomarev
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Reporter Gene Imaging

Jose Montalvo Rivera
University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras

Mentor: David Schneiberg
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: A Quest for Ligand Targets of Next Generation Gated CAR T Cells

Ariel Pan
University of Chicago

Mentor: Jason Lewis
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: 86Y uPAR antibody for senescent cell imaging

Akash Patel
The College of New Jersey

Mentor: Kayvan Keshari
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Novel approaches to cancer metabolism for diagnosis and treatment

Josiah Celestine
University of Florida

Mentor: Kishore Pillarsetty
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Modulation of Prostate Specific Membrane Antigen (PSMA) as a Response to Treatment in Prostate Cancer

Catherine Fitzgerald
University of Melbourne

Mentor: Jason Lewis
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: A MUC16-targeted humanized antibody for in vivo PET/CT imaging of pancreatic cancer

Spencer Kaminsky
Washington University

Mentor: Jason Lewis
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Development of an indirect antibody internalization assay using radiolabeled antigen-binding fragments

Abigail Kostolansky
Princeton University

Mentor: Thomas Reiner
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: PARP Expression and PARPi-FL Uptake in Esophageal Normal Tissue and Adenocarcinoma

Dylan Manuele
University of Rochester

Mentor: Thomas Reiner
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Spider Venom Peptide for Imaging Nerves

Gianna Mincone
Bucknell University

Mentor: Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Dynamic spatial coupling of key lineage transcription factors GATA6 and NANOG during the Inner Cell Mass lineage allocation process in mouse embryo

Caleb Sooknanan
Stony Brook

Mentor: Peter Gibbs
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: The Added Value of Diffusion-Weighted and Contrast-Enhanced Imaging Data Types within Breast MRI Radiomics

Catherine Stratis
Hunter College

Mentor: Jan Grimm
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Tumor-on-a-Chip to Evaluate the Role of Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen (PSMA)

Charlotte Thomas
Duke University

Mentor: Jan Grimm
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Prodrug of Doxazolidine Activatable via Reactive Oxygen Species

Claudia Wong
University of California, Berkeley

Mentor: Kayvan Keshari
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Identifying the Mechanism of Metabolic Plasticity of Leukemic Cells in Glucose-Limited Environment

Andriy Yatsykiv
Hunter College

Mentor: Michelle Bradbury
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Ultrasmall Renally Clearable Silica Nanoparticle Targets Prostate Cancer

Xuwen Zheng
Johns Hopkins University

Mentor: Morgan Huse
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: The Role of MRTF on Cancer Cell Biophysical Properties

Jack Berry
University of Newcastle

Mentor: Jason Lewis
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Radiolabeling of the scorpion venom peptide chlorotoxin with indium-111 for the molecular imaging of brain tumors

Ariana Bitton
University of Wisconsin Madison

Mentor: Kishore Pillarsetty
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: BMT Liposomes Study

Chace Carpenter
University of Vermont

Mentor: Jan Grimm
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Cerenkov Luminescence-Activatable Imaging Probes and T herapies

Luanna Chan
Johns Hopkins University

Mentor: Charles Rudin
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: A High-Diversity, Ribosome Display Library for Cyclic Peptide Probe Discovery

Kiara Cruickshank
Clarkson University

Mentor: Michelle Bradbury
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Ultrasmall Silica Nanoparticles for Enhanced Prostate Cancer Detection

George Diehl
Vassar College

Mentor: Jason Lewis
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: 52Mn-DOTA-pHLIP as a PET Tracer and the Cyclotron Production of 90Nb

Vivian Huang
Emory University

Mentor: Morgan Huse
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Enhancing Tumor Cell Sensitivity to T Cell Killing by Using Optogenetics

Jenny Ijoma
New York University

Mentor: Ronald Blasberg
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: The effect of LDH-A inhibition in the metabolism and microenvironment of MycCaP prostate cancer cells and tumors

Micaela Millan
Hunter College

Mentor: Kayvan Keshari
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: MR Imaging of Hyperpolarized [1-13C] Pyruvate and Lactate Using the Three-Point Dixon Method

Elizabeth Rieger
University of Pennsylvania

Mentor: Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Automated cell tracking in pre-implantation mouse embryos

Veer Shah
Northeastern University

Mentor: Thomas Reiner
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Optical imaging of PARP1 expression in oral and esophageal cancers