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M3D PhD Program

Student Program: M3D PhD Program

Danquah, Serwah

First-Year Rotations (2023-2024)

Autumn: Lucas Sullivan, PhD

Winter: Min (Mia) Yang, PhD

Spring: Patrick Paddison, PhD

Blakeman, Katie

First-Year Rotations (2023-2024)

Autumn: Kathleen Millen, PhD

Winter: Stephen Reeves, PhD

Spring: Jessica Young, PhD

Aquene Reid

Research Interests

Neurodegenerative diseases, neuroimmune interactions, hiPSC-derived in vitro disease modeling, cell engineering, and regenerative medicine.

Aquene Reid 

Publications

1. Vitanza NA, Wilson AL, Huang W, Seidel K, Brown C, Gustafson JA, Yokoyama JK, Johnson AJ, Baxter BA, Koning RW, Reid AN, Meechan M, Biery MC, Myers C, Rawlings-Rhea SD, Albert CM, Browd SR, Hauptman JS, Lee A, Ojemann JG, Berens ME, Dun MD, Foster JB, Crotty EE, Leary SES, Cole BL, Perez FA, Wright JN, Orentas RJ, Chour T, Newell EW, Whiteaker JR, Zhao L, Paulovich AG, Pinto N, Gust J, Gardner RA, Jensen MC, Park JR. Intraventricular B7-H3 CAR T Cells for Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma: Preliminary First-in-Human Bioactivity and Safety. Cancer Discov. 2023 Jan 9;13(1):114-131. doi: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-22-0750. PMID: 36259971; PMCID: PMC9827115.

2. Johnson AJ, Wei J, Rosser JM, Künkele A, Chang CA, Reid AN, Jensen MC. Rationally Designed Transgene-Encoded Cell-Surface Polypeptide Tag for Multiplexed Programming of CAR T-cell Synthetic Outputs. Cancer Immunol Res. 2021 Sep;9(9):1047-1060. doi: 10.1158/2326-6066.CIR-20-0470. Epub 2021 Jul 9. PMID: 34244298; PMCID: PMC8415133.

Other activities

Neuroscience Undergraduate Reading Program (NURP) mentor – Fall 2023

First-Year Rotations (2022-2023)

Autumn: Benjamin Freedman, PhD

Winter: Jessica Young, PhD 

Spring: Suman Jayadev, MD

Alex Reers

First-Year Rotations (2022-2023)

Autumn: Kevin Cheung, MD

Winter: Taran Gujral, PhD 

Spring: Cory Simpson, MD, PhD

Aaron Ramonett

Research Interests

B cell biology, cell therapies, and genome editing

 

First-Year Rotations (2022-2023)

Autumn: Richard James, PhD

Winter: Shannon Oda, PhD

Spring: Cory Simpson, MD, PhD

Shyanne King

Research Interests

Tumor evolution, tissue heterogeneity, APOBEC3 mutagenesis

Awards

  • Chen Hu Family Endowed Fund Travel Grant
  • FHCC Translation Data Science Integrated Research Center Fast Pitch Competition – Best Science/Innovation Pitch (2024)

Other

  • NCI BigCARE Trainee
  • Co-Founder of Humans of Science
  • JEDI Representative 2023-Present
  • GPSS Senator: 2022-2023

 

First-Year Rotations (2022-2023)

Autumn: Bruce Clurman, MD, PhD

Winter: Surojit Sarkar, PhD 

Spring: James Alvarez, PhD 

Jordan Jackson

Research Interests

Cancer development and progression in the colon. Microbiome’s impact on cancer development.

Awards

GSEE Diversity Fellowship

First-Year Rotations (2022-2023)

Autumn: Kevin Cheung, MD

Winter: Neel Dey, MD

Spring: Jing Ma, PhD 

Simonne Guenette

First-Year Rotations (2022-2023)

Autumn: Nicholas Vitanza, MD

Winter:  Shannon Oda, PhD 

Spring: Joshua Veatch, MD, PhD 

Alex Chen

Research Interests

T cell receptor-based adoptive cell therapies for solid tumor.

Awards

Curci Foundation Scholar – Two-year scholarship (2022)
Northwest Sarcoma Foundation Research Grant Recipient (2023)

First-Year Rotations (2022-2023)

Autumn: Daniel Promislow, PhD

Winter: Nicholas Vitanza, MD

Spring: Aude Chapuis, MD