Auna’y Miller: Tumor pathways in glioblastoma
My research focuses on glioblastoma, an aggressive and currently incurable brain cancer that often returns despite treatment.
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Student Research
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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Ayman Faroqi: Creating a new strategy for Parkinson’s disease
My research tackles a major challenge in Parkinson's disease, addressing a misfolded protein known as alpha-synuclein that contributes to the disease.
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Erin McGlinch: Developing a gene therapy to fix broken bones
My Ph.D. research focused on developing a gene therapy approach to stimulate bone regeneration in "nonunion fractures," which occur when broken bones fail to heal naturally.
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Zhiming Mao: Understanding how T cells learn to fight cancer
My Ph.D. research focused on understanding how the immune system develops T cells that help fight cancer.
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Read past profiles of our students and their research organized by research track in the Ph.D. program.
Biochemistry and molecular biology track
Luke Doskey: Student Analyzes Cell-to-Cell Communication in Disease
Joana Efua Aggrey-Fynn: Understanding the Metastasis of Pancreatic Tumor Cells
Stephanie Oatman: Combining Big Data to Understand Mechanisms of Alzheimer’s 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
Biomedical engineering and physiology track
Sydney Gorman Hillan: Exploring Psychiatric Effects of DBS for Parkinson’s Disease
Emily Koons: Improving CT imaging with Artificial Intelligence
Tory Marks: A Student’s Approach to Real-Time Seizure Detection
Lydia Bardwell Speltz: Testing Cutting-Edge Compact MRI Technology
Benjamin Wood, Ph.D.: Enhancing Ultrasound and Breast Cancer Outcomes
Clinical and translational science track
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
Abdul Karim Ghaith, M.D.: Developing New Approaches to Treat Spinal Cord Injury
Vanessa Kronzer, M.D.: Linking Genes, Respiratory Illness, and Rheumatoid Arthritis
Auna’y Miller: Tumor Pathways in Glioblastoma
Harry Min: Pursuing Treatments for Deadly Neurodegenerative Disease
Minerva Orellana: A Student’s Community-Engaged Research on Fibroids
Grace Yu: Analyzing Senescence in Skin
Stephanie Zawada: Wearables as a Tool to Help Doctors Assess Effects of Stroke
Immunology track
Cori Fain: New Drug Targets for Cerebral Malaria
Cody Fisher: Taking on Antibiotic Resistance
Michelle Hsu: Improving Immune Checkpoint Therapy for Cancer
Joanina Gicobi: Energizing Immune Cells to Fight Cancer
Jay Jenkins: Harnessing the Immune System to Fight Cancer
Jyoti Kumari Lama: Addressing Life-Threatening Allergic Reactions
Zhiming Mao: Understanding How T Cells Learn to Fight Cancer
Anjali Jacob Panicker: Aiming to Improve the Experience of Organ Transplant
Molecular pharmacology and experimental therapeutics track
Zack Aibaidula, M.D.: Becoming a Scientist to Help Patients with Brain Cancer
Matthew Baker: Student Identifies Neurons Related to Addictive Behavior
Mylan Blomquist: Imaging Residual Brain Tumor Cells to Improve Glioblastoma Treatment
Kevin Gao: Reengineering Heart Cells to Understand Sudden Cardiac Death
Ramin Garmany: A Big-Data Approach to Understand a Genetic Heart Disease
Caroline Grant: Artificial Intelligence Strategies to Study Disease and Drug Response
August John: Developing a New Method to Optimize Cancer Drugs
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
Utkarsh Tripathi: Targeting Senescent Cells to Treat Aging and Cancer
Tianchu Wang: Halting Kidney Cancer
Taylor Weiskittel: Using Big Data to Understand Immune Cells and Cancer
Neuroscience track
Mika Cadiz: Examining Effects of New Drugs for Alzheimer’s Disease
Ayman Faroqi: Creating a New Strategy for Parkinson's Disease
Michael Jensen: Providing a New Map of the Human Brain
Jannifer Lee: Finding Proteins That Go Awry in Alzheimer’s Disease
Francis Shue: Understanding Genetic Variants in Alzheimer’s Disease