Walther ENSCCII Training Project 2013 Awardees

 

The overall goal of the Walther ENSCCII Training Project is to establish a cancer-focused integrative inter-disciplinary training environment.  Three years of pre-doctoral or post-doctoral support are provided to highly qualified and productive applicants.

 

Pre-doctoral Fellowships:
 

“Contrast-Enhanced X-Ray Detection of Breast Microcalcifications in a Murine Model of Radiographically Dense Mammary Tissue”

Principal Investigator:  Lisa Cole, Dept. of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering (UND)

Mentors:  Ryan Roeder, Dept. of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering (UND) and Tracy Vargo-Gogola, Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (IUSMSB)

 

“Rapid Separation of Vesicles by Surface Acoustic Wave-Inspired Microfluidics for Early Detection and Diagnosis of Pancreatic Cancer”

Principal Investigator:  Daniel Taller, Dept. of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering (UND)

Mentors:  David Go, Dept. of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering (UND) and Reginald Hill, Dept. of Biological Sciences (UND)

 

 

Post-Doctoral Fellowships:

 

“Novel Pre-Clinical Animal Models of Chemotherapy Resistance Using Patient-Derived Breast Tumor Xenografts”

Principal Investigator:  Christopher Suarez, Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry (UND)

Mentors:  Laurie Littlepage, Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry (UND) and Sunil Badve, Dept. of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine (IUPUI)

 

“Combining Microtubule Stabilizing Agents with mitotic Kinase Inhibitors to Improve Treatment of Pancreatic Cancer”

Principal Investigator:  Shaoshi Guo, Dept. of Biological Sciences (UND)

Mentors:  Kevin Vaughan, Dept. of Biological Sciences (UND) and Reginald Hill, Dept. of Biological Sciences (UND)