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Cohort 3
Hafeezah Abdullah - Sayreville War Memorial High School, Sayreville, NJ
The impact of BLTP3A on MHC class I expression in the Epithelial Ovarian Cancer cells under stress
Mentor: Kyle Payne, PhD, Elaheh S. Hosseini, MSc
Research Program: Cancer Metabolism & Immunology
Yekaterina (Kate) Cilluffo - John P. Stevens High School, Edison, NJ
Designing Sun Safety Intervention Messages for Teenage Boys
Mentor: Katie Devine, PhD, MPH
Research Program: Cancer Pharmacology
Georgeanne Osanya - Bayonne High School, Bayonne, NJ
Profiling The Protein Expression of Lymphocyte Functional Antigen 1 in Cell Lines of B-Cell Malignancies
Mentor: Wei-Xing Zong, PhD/Namratha Sheshadri, PhD
Research Program: Cancer Metabolism & Immunology
Scott Ryan - Passaic Academy for Science and Engineering, Passaic, NJ
“We made too many wrong mistakes” Curriculum to avoid misinterpreting data
Mentor: Antonina Mitrofanova, PhD
Research Program: Cancer Prevention and Control
Arun Srivastava - High Tech High School, Secaucus, NJ
Gene ontology analysis of transcriptomic changes induced by alcohol in the MMTV-Wnt1 mice
Mentor: Wendie Cohick, PhD, Amanda Jetzt, PhD
Research Program: Cancer Metabolism and Cancer Genetics
Cohort 4
Natalia Coleman, PhD Jose Marti STEM Academy, Union City
The Role of STING in GI-Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors
Mentor: Ms. Genesaret Rubio and Dr. Yuan in Libuitti Lab
Research Program: Genomic Instability and Cancer Genetics/Clinical Investigations & Precision Therapeutics
Phoebe Gruetter, Science Park High School, Newark, NJ
Regulatory Mechanism of Oncogenic Chromatin Remodeling in Liver Cancer
Mentor: Carolyn Heckman, PhD and Anna Mitarotondo, MS
Research Program: Cancer Prevention and Control
Paul Orbe, PhD Union City High School, Union City
Restoring the Function of Mutated TP53 in Bladder Cancer
Mentor: Subhajyoti De, PhD
Research Program: Genomic Instability and Cancer Genetics
Cohort 5
Daniel Helm, MS, EdS- Cliffside Park High School, Cliffside Park, NJ
A Novel System of Inducible Ras Expression, Leading to Oncogene Induced Senescence
Mentor: Ricardo Martinez Zamudio, PhD, Themistoklis Vasilopoulos, BSc.
Research Program: Genomic Instability and Cancer Genetics Program Cancer Pharmacology Program
Jessie Pang - Piscataway High School, Piscataway, NJ
The Immediate Effects of KDM8 Depletion in Pancreatic Cancer on Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition
Mentor: Shin-Heng Chiou, PhD/Pradeep Gunasekaran
Research Program: Cancer Pharmacology
Neril Sandeep - Jose Marti STEM Academy, Union City
Epigenetic Regulators of DLK1: A Gateway to Targeted Killing in MPNSTs
Mentor: Xiyuan Zhang, PhD
Research Program: Genomic Instability and Cancer Genetics
Anju Batra - New Brunswick Health Sciences Technology High School, New Brunswick, NJ
Role of Specific Cellular Proteins in Maintaining Genome Stability at Common Fragile Sites
Mentor: Advaitha Madireddy, PhD/Mrunmai Niljikar
Research Program: Genomic Instability and Cancer Genetics Program