As graduate students near the end of their Ph.D. training at Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, they reflect on their research journeys, lessons they learned along the way, and their hopes for the future.
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My Ph.D. research aimed to address the rise of stroke in young and middle-aged adults, as I developed a new patient-monitoring strategy to reduce the impact of disability and monitor patients after an event.
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My research focused on addressing autoimmune and immune-mediated diseases. Current treatments often focus on managing symptoms rather than addressing the root causes of immune inflammation.
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My graduate research focused on brain tumors that occur in children. Pediatric high-grade gliomas are uniformly lethal tumors for which no cure has yet been identified.
Read the full profileRead past profiles of our students and their research organized by research track in the Ph.D. program.
Luke Doskey: Student Analyzes Cell-to-Cell Communication in Disease
Keenan Pearson: Optimizing a DNA-Based Tool to Address Disease
Pei Yi Ng: Aiming to Mitigate Alzheimer’s Disease
Rameen Shah: Developing a Mini Brain to Study a Rare Genetic Disease
Brandon Wilbanks: Finding DNA Molecules That Can Transport Drugs Inside Cells
Danielle Beetler: Exploring a New Approach to Treating Deadly Heart Disease
Damian Di Florio: Understanding Sex Differences in Deadly Heart Disease
Harvey Huang: Exploring Brain Networks Involved in Vision and Disease
Harry Min: Pursuing Treatments for Deadly Neurodegenerative Disease
Minerva Orellana: A Student’s Community-Engaged Research on Fibroids
Stephanie Zawada: Wearables as a Tool to Help Doctors Assess Effects of Stroke
Zack Aibaidula, M.D.: Becoming a Scientist to Help Patients with Brain Cancer
Matthew Baker: Student Identifies Neurons Related to Addictive Behavior
Kevin Gao: Reengineering Heart Cells to Understand Sudden Cardiac Death
Ramin Garmany: A Big-Data Approach to Understand a Genetic Heart Disease
Deborah Msekela: Sleep-Related Epilepsy
Glancis Luzeena Raja: Taking on Pancreatic Cancer
Julian Rechberger, M.D.: Improving Treatment of Deadly Pediatric Brain Tumors
Olivia Sirpilla: Engineering Stem Cells as a Therapy for Immune Disease
