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CTSA KL2 Scholars

Aileen Aldalur, PhD

Aileen Aldalur, PhD

Department of Psychiatry

Mentor: Kenneth R. Conner, PsyD, MPH

Project: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for treatment seeking with Deaf individuals

Nathaniel Bayer, MD

Nathaniel Bayer, MD

Department of Pediatrics

Mentor: Christine Petrenko, PhD

Project: Caregiver Support Intervention for Families of Children with Medical Complexity

Emily Knight, MD, PhD

Emily Knight, MD, PhD

Department of Pediatrics, Department of Neuroscience

Mentor: John Foxe, PhD

Project: Neural Mechanisms Underlying Speech-in-noise Processing Difficulty in Autism

Ajay Dhakal, MBBS

Ajay Dhakal, MBBS

Department of Medicine

Mentor: Nimish Mohile, MD

Project: Testing treatments for breast cancer with brain metastases

Ashley Jenkins, MD

Ashley Jenkins, MD

Department of Medicine,
Department of Pediatrics

Mentor: Kevin Fiscella, MD, MPH

Project: Adapting Individualized Care Plans to Improve Inpatient Vaso-Occlusive Episode Care for Adults with Sickle Cell Disease

Frank Garcea, PhD

Frank Garcea, PhD

Department of Neurosurgery

Mentor: Webster Pilcher

Project: High Definition Fiber Tracking for Neurosurgical Planning

Doran Mix,
MD

Doran Mix, MD

Department of Surgery, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Mentor: Marvin Doyley, PhD

Project: Natural History of Human Aortic Dissections Mechanics Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging

K12 Rochester Postdoc Partnership Scholars
(A program in partnership with the RIT National Technical Institute for the Deaf)

Lok Ming (Tom) Tam, PhD

Lok Ming (Tom) Tam, PhD

Mentor: Matt Rand, PhD

Project: Resolving mechanisms of toxicity of methylmercury, a ubiquitous environmental toxicant that poses concern for human health due to its common exposure route through fish consumption.

Athena Willis, PhD

Athena Willis, PhD

Mentor: John J. Foxe, PhD

Project: Investigating the role of semantics in multisensory perception utilizing electrophysiological studies of deaf signers’ sensory and language experience.

Phu Duong, PhD

Phu Duong, PhD

Mentor: Patrick Murphy

Project: Studying how H3K27 demethylases are dispensable for activation of Polycomb-regulated injury response genes in peripheral nerve

Sara Blick-Nitko, PhD

Sara Blick-Nitko, PhD

Mentor: Isaac Harris, PhD

Project: Multifunctional Approach to Pharmacologic Screening (MAPS) is a high-throughput pharmacologic screening technique used by the Harris Lab to study vulnerabilities in cancer cells. I will be focusing on this area to contribute towards building the MAPS library and will be involved with a few projects.