Providing a unique environment for graduate training in experimental pathology...

The current graduate students are alphabetically listed below.

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Maria Aleman
B.S., Zoology, Humboldt State University
Role of fibrin(ogen) in thrombus resolution

Patricia Casbas Hernandez
B.S., Biochemistry, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
In vitro coculture models to study heterotypic interactions in breast cancer microenvironments

Dinuka De Silva
B.A., Biology, Rutgers University
Ack1 regulation of SLIRP mediated repression of Androgen Receptor Signaling

Michael Durando
B.S., Chemical Engineering, M.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Arizona
Mechanisms of DNA damage and repair in response to environmental genotoxins

Meghan Free
B.S., Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
T Cell Dysregulation in Patients with ANCA Disease

Julia Geddings
B.S., University of South Carolina at  Columbia
Tissue factor-dependent modulation of thrombosis

Kaitlin Lenhart
B.S., Biology, B.A., Chemistry, University of South Florida
Role of the Rho-GAP GRAF in skeletal muscle development and repair

Pamela Lockyer
B.S., University of Central Arkansas
BMP/BMPR axis in atherosclerosis

Lantz Mackey
B.S., Biology, University of Mary Washington
NKT cell determinants and contributions to vascular disease

Kevin Mangum
B.S., Biology, Davidson College, Davidson, NC
Mediators of smooth muscle cell dedifferentiation and regeneration in vascular disease

Robbie McNeill
B.S., Biology, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Development of murine allograft models of glioblastoma

Adam Pfefferle
B.S., Biochemistry, B.S., Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The role of angiogenesis factors in breast cancer progression

Amanda Rinkenbaugh
B.S., Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma
The role of the IKK/NF-κB pathway in glioblastoma cancer stem cells

Kristine Wadosky
B.S., Molecular Genetics, University of Rochester
Molecular mechanisms by which Muscle RING Finger-1 (MuRF1) regulates cardiac hypertrophy

Bethany Walton
B.S., Biochemistry, Ramapo College of New Jersey
Delineating mechanisms by which hyperfibrinogemia promotes thrombosis

Laura Weise-Cross
B.S., Biochemistry, University of Texas at Austin
RhoA Signaling through the Diaphanous-Related-Formins in Smooth Muscle Cell Differentiation