BRANDON YE (HE/HIM) – CURE Co-Lead
Major: Quantitative Biology
Minor: Artificial Intelligence Applications
Joined: Fall 2021
Research Focus: Substantiating predictive models for metastatic relapse in newly diagnosed upper tract urothelial carcinoma patients utilizing a multi-cancer liquid biopsy approach.
MONICA RODRIGUEZ (SHE/HER) – CURE Co-Lead
Major: Quantitative Biology
Minor: Culture Competence in Medicine
Joined: Spring 2022
Research Focus: Investigating the impact of copy number alterations on gene expression programs in prostate cancer cell lines
ANDREW UDOV – CURE Co-Lead
Major: Human Biology
Minor:
Joined: Spring 2022
Research Focus: Liquid biopsy-mediated circulating rare cell analysis in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer patients treated with PSCA targeted CAR-T cell therapy
AMY HUANG
Major: Biological Sciences
Minor: Healthcare Studies, Entrepreneurship
Joined: Fall 2021
Research Focus: Examining the Clinical Utility of Liquid Biopsy In Predicting Disease Progression in Urothelial Carcinoma Patients
EMMETT LILJEGREN
Major: Human Biology
Minor: Spanish
Joined: Fall 2021
Research Focus: Improve the understanding of early-stage breast cancer through analyzing peripheral blood samples from before and after surgical resection of the primary tumor
SRIKAR KOLLURU (HE/HIM)
Major: Human Biology
Minor: Health Care Studies
Joined: Spring 2022
Research Focus: Liquid-Biopsy-Mediated Rare Cell Analysis of Patients with Triple Negative Breast Cancer
ANYA SHAH
Major: Global Health
Minor: Natural Sciences
Joined: Spring 2022
Research Focus: Evaluation of CTC dynamics as a biomarker of anti-tumoral effect of ketamine therapy in non-small cell lung cancer.
THERESA LUO
Major: Biological Sciences (Biotechnology)
Minor: Healthcare Studies
Joined: Spring 2022
Research Focus: Extracellular microvesicles in multiple myeloma: bridging cellular and plasma-based liquid biopsy
SAMUEL LIU
Major: Human Biology, Data Science
Minor:
Joined: Spring 2023
Research Focus: Channel Classifier Development for Multi-Cancer Rare Cell Characterization
VIDUR MUSHRAN
Major: Neuroscience
Minor: Artificial Intelligence Applications
Joined: Spring 2023
Research Focus: Developing a rare cell characterization map for clustering and defining liquid biopsy profiles
ASHLEY ASANTE-MANU
Major: Human Biology, Global Health
Minor:
Joined: Fall 2023
Research Focus: Developing enhanced screening and diagnostic workup for pancreatic cancer
BAISHALI CHAUDHURI
Major: Biochemistry
Minor: Cinematic Arts
Joined: Fall 2023
Research Focus: Legacy
ANNA LIU
Major: Biochemistry
Minor: Marketing
Joined: Fall 2023
Research Focus: Rare Event Detection in Ovarian Cancer Immunotherapy Patients Using HDSCA
CAMILLA PLASCENCIA
Major: Human Biology, Global Medicine
Minor:
Joined: Fall 2023
Research Focus: Characterizing the liquid biopsy in osteosarcoma
SRIRAM SESHADRI
Major: Biological Sciences
Minor: Mathematics
Joined: Fall 2023
Research Focus: Characterization of cellular and acellular analytes from liquid biopsies in patients with bladder cancer
STEVE SOTO TRUJILLO
Major: Human Biology
Minor: Latin American Studies
Joined: Fall 2023
Research Focus: Liquid Biopsy Profiles and Clinical Outcomes across Head/Neck and Lung Cancer Patients during a Novel Immunotherapy
JEFFREY KANG
Major: Computer Science
Minor:
Joined: Spring 2024
Research Focus: Deep morphological profiling of circulating rare cells in peripheral blood of cancer patients
CLAUDIA BJERREGAARD
Major: Biochemistry
Minor:
Joined: Spring 2024
Research Focus: Oligometastatic pancreatic cancer treated with stereotactic body radiation therapy
ANDREW NGUYEN
Major: Biochemistry
Minor:
Joined: Spring 2024
Research Focus: Circulating tumor cells for early detection of uveal melanoma metastasis
KATE OLSEN
Major: Quantitative Biology
Minor: Artificial Intelligence Applications
Joined: Spring 2024
Research Focus: Single cell multi-omics analyses to resolve the heterogeneity of cancer cells in the ascites of ovarian cancer patients
AYLA SEDDIGHNEZHAD
Major: Human Biology
Minor:
Joined: Spring 2024
Research Focus: Evaluating the Sensitivity and Targeting Efficiency of Nanoparticle-based Contrast Agents in Liquid Biopsy Samples for Personalized Medicine
ANMOL SINGHAL
Major: Quantitative Biology
Minor:
Joined: Spring 2024
Research Focus: Bioinformatics Analysis for Circulating Cell-Free DNA in Cancer
