{"id":27787,"date":"2026-04-09T15:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T19:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/?p=27787"},"modified":"2026-05-05T10:52:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T14:52:35","slug":"congratulations-to-our-new-phd-amy-aponte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/congratulations-to-our-new-phd-amy-aponte\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to our new PhD, Amy Aponte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Dr. Aponte successfully defended her PhD thesis,\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">&#8220;Post-translational Regulation of the RB Tumor Suppressor in Response to CDK4\/6 Inhibition&#8221; under the mentorship of Dr. Mike Emanuele!<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_27788\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 285px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2026\/04\/Amy_Aponte_PhD.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-27788\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2026\/04\/Amy_Aponte_PhD.jpg\" alt=\"Amy Aponte, PhD\" width=\"275\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2026\/04\/Amy_Aponte_PhD.jpg 470w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2026\/04\/Amy_Aponte_PhD-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Amy Aponte, PhD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Publications<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/41710088\/\" data-outlook-id=\"30353666-1a73-469e-a1ac-5e7a48b944a4\">Charting the multilevel molecular response to palbociclib in ER-positive breast cancer.<\/a>Kavalipati A, <strong>Aponte A<\/strong>, Sullivan ME, Whittington SL, Mart\u00ednez JC, Goda GA, Aleman MM, Emanuele MJ, Dominguez D.NAR Cancer. 2026 Feb 17;8(1):zcag003. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/narcan\/zcag003\">doi: 10.1093\/narcan\/zcag003.<\/a> eCollection 2026 Mar. PMID: 41710088. <a class=\"id-link\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff\" href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC12910112\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-ga-category=\"full_text\" data-ga-action=\"PMCID\">PMC12910112.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/41502411\/\" data-outlook-id=\"09c2df75-1861-489e-935d-64f810541afd\">Characterizing the Impact of the Cell Cycle on mRNA Lipid Nanoparticles.<\/a> VanKeulen-Miller R, <strong>Aponte A<\/strong>, Tiwade PB, Narasipura EA, Fung V, Andersen S, Gill NA, Emanuele M, Fenton OS.J Am Chem Soc. 2026 Jan 21;148(2):2779-2791. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1021\/jacs.5c20083\">doi: 10.1021\/jacs.5c20083<\/a>. Epub 2026 Jan 8. PMID: 41502411.<\/p>\n<h2>Honors, Awards &amp; Highlights<\/h2>\n<p>NIH\/NCI F31 Fellowship<br \/>\nBurroughs Wellcome Fund Award<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Aponte is currently a medical writer for Phoenix Rising Communications.<\/p>\n<p><em>We wish you all the best, Amy!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Aponte successfully defended her PhD thesis,\u00a0&#8220;Post-translational Regulation of the RB Tumor Suppressor in Response to CDK4\/6 Inhibition&#8221; under the mentorship of Dr. Mike Emanuele!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22429,"featured_media":27521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-student-postdoc-news","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2026\/02\/Amy-Aponte-phd.jpg","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2026\/02\/Amy-Aponte-phd.jpg","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2026\/02\/Amy-Aponte-phd.jpg","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2026\/02\/Amy-Aponte-phd.jpg","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2026\/02\/Amy-Aponte-phd-150x150.jpg","featured_image_alt":"Amy Aponte, PhD","category_details":[{"name":"Student &amp; Postdoc News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/category\/news\/student-postdoc-news\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27787"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27793,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27787\/revisions\/27793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}