Student:
Thesis Advisor:
Date of Thesis Defense:
TITLE:
Student: Winson Cai
Thesis Advisor: David Scheinberg
Date of Thesis Defense: 5/13/2024
TITLE: "Augmenting CAR T Cell Functions with LIGHT"
Student: Brandon Ng
Thesis Advisor: Marcel Van den Brink, PhD
Date of Thesis Defense: 4/26/2024
TITLE: "Engineered Il-18 Secretion and Multi-Antigen Targeting Enable CAR T cells to Eliminate Multiple Myeloma with Low Antigen Expression in an Immunocompetent Mouse Model"
Student: Jessica Falci
Thesis Advisor: Yueming Li, PhD
Date of Thesis Defense: 4/25/2024
TITLE: "Development and Mechanism of Autophagy Modulators for Treatment of Neurodegenerative Disorders"
Student: Yang Bai
Thesis Advisor: Vivek Mittal, PhD
Date of Thesis Defense: 4/3/2024
TITLE: "Epigenetic Regulation of Chromosomal Instability in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer"
Student: Mildred Unti
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Samie Jaffrey
Date of Thesis Defense: 3/25/2024
TITLE: "A Method for Expressing Circular mRNA in Mammalian Cells and its Use as A Therapeutic and Research Tool"
Student: Keifer Kurtz
Thesis Advisor: David Scheinberg
Date of Thesis Defense: 1/17/2024
TITLE: "Orthogonal Approaches for Enhancing Cellular Immunotherapies"
Student: Leona Nease
Thesis Advisor: Elena Piskounova
Date of Thesis Defense: 12/6/2023
TITLE: "Selenocysteine tRNA Methylation as an Antioxidant Mechanism in Melanoma Metastasis"
Student: Kyeara Mack
Thesis Advisor: Jason Lewis
Date of Thesis Defense: 11/13/2023
TITLE: "Antibody-Based Theranostics in Ovarian Cancer: Targeting MUC16 for Diagnosis and Radioimmunotherapy"
Student: Melissa Boby
Thesis Advisor: Derek Tan
Date of Thesis Defense: 11/8/2023
TITLE: "Development of Adenylation Enzyme Inhibitors as Novel Antibiotics"
Student: Krysta DiKun
Thesis Advisor: Lorraine Gudas
Date of Thesis Defense: 9/18/2023
TITLE: "Investigating the Roles of Retinoic Acid Receptor (RAR) Alphaand Beta in Kidney Cell Types"
Student: Kyle Planck
Thesis Advisor: Kyu Rhee
Date of Thesis Defense: 8/17/2023
TITLE: "Harnessing Chemical Biology and Metabolomics for Preclinical TB Drug Discovery"
Student: Lauren Dong
Thesis Advisor: Taha Merghoub
Date of Thesis Defense: 8/9/2023
TITLE: "Intermittent MEK Inhibition with GITR Co-Stimulation Rescues T Cell Function and Sensitizes Solid Tumors to CTLA-4 Blockade"
Student: Broderick Corless
Thesis Advisor: Derek Tan
Date of Thesis Defense: 8/2/2023
TITLE: "EpoxySEAKER: CAR T-Cell Model for Targeted Local Biosynthesis of Therapeutic Warheads"
Student: Jonathan Khan
Thesis Advisor: Jedd Wolchok
Date of Thesis Defense: 7/6/2023
TITLE: "Rational Development of an Optimized CAR T Cell Platform for Therapy of Glioblastoma"
Student: Pedro Silberman
Thesis Advisor: David Scheinberg
Date of Thesis Defense: 7/5/2023
TITLE: "Tumor Microenvironment Actuated T-Cells (MEAT-Cells) to Conditionally Express Chimeric Antigen Receptors and Mitigate Lethal Toxicity"
Student: Jiayi "Cassie" Yuan
Thesis Advisor: Lorenz Studer
Date of Thesis Defense: 6/29/2023
TITLE: "Genome-Wide Loss-of-Function Screens in Human Microglia to Identify Novel HSV1 Susceptibility Factor"
Student: Lauren Jonas
Thesis Advisor: Yueming Li
Date of Thesis Defense: 4/6/2023
TITLE: "Interferon Inducible Transmembrane Protein 3 in Alzheimer’s Disease and Tauopathy"
Student: Daniel Tylawsky
Thesis Advisor: Daniel Heller
Date of Thesis Defense: 4/5/2023
TITLE: "Drug Delivery to Intracranial Tumors by Active Transport of Targeted Nanocarriers"
