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)
Originally published by at harpercancer.nd.edu on July 08, 2013.