Project Title: Iron sequestration as a mechanism of immune evasion in pancreas adenocarcinoma
Chenyang Zhan
Department: Radiology
Training Period: 2024- Present
Current Position: Assistant Attending, Assistant Member
Laboratory Mentor: David A. Scheinberg
Clinical Mentor: Michael Andrew Postow
Project Title: Neoantigen Landscape Analysis and Target Selection for Personalized Immunotherapy Using Biopsy-Derived Tumor Organoids
Joshua Budhu
Department: Neurology
Training Period: 2024- Present
Current Position: Assistant Attending L1
Laboratory Mentor: Francesca Gany
Clinical Mentor: Ingo Mellinghoff
Project Title: A pilot study of the ICCAN intervention to increase treatment adherence in underserved patients with glioblastoma by mitigating socioeconomic barriers.
Christina Fong
Department: Pediatrics
Training Period: 2024- Present
Current Position: Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Instructor
Laboratory Mentor: Anthony Daniyan
Clinical Mentor: Ira Dunkel
Project Title: Armored Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cells for Pediatric Brain Tumors
Minna Lee
Department: Pediatrics
Training Period: 2024- Present
Current Position: Assistant Member
Laboratory Mentor: Sarat Chandarlapaty
Clinical Mentor: Monica Morrow
Project Title: Understanding and overcoming endocrine therapy resistance linked to homologous recombination deficiency in breast cancer.
Anupriya Singhal
Department: Medicine
Training Period: 2023-Present
Current Position: Fellow
Laboratory Mentor: Tuomas Tamella
Clinical Mentor: Eileen O’Reilly
Project Title: Interrogating Cancer Cell States Driving Resistance to KRAS inhibition in Pancreatic Cancer
Elizabeth Coffee
Department: Neurology
Training Period: 2023-Present
Current Position: Instructor
Laboratory Mentor: Kayvan Keshari
Clinical Mentor: Ingo Mellinghoff
Project Title: A hyperpolarized MRI probe to guide treatment in glioma
Bill Diplas
Department: Radiation Oncology
Training Period: 2023-Present
Current Position: Fellow
Laboratory Mentor: Agnel Sfeir
Clinical Mentor: Nadeem Riaz
Project Title: Targeting alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT) in cancer
Project Title: Characterizing the effects of a pilot plant-based dietary intervention in overweight/obese patients with monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance and smoldering multiple myeloma
Minsi Zhang
Department: Radiation Oncology
Training Period: 2020-2023
Current Position: Instructor
Laboratory Mentor: Andrea Ventura
Clinical Mentor: Nancy Lee
Project Title: Role of miRNA activity in Tumor and Normal Tissue Response to Radiation
Salvador Alonso Martinez
Department: Medicine
Training Period: 2022-2023
Current Position: Instructor
Laboratory Mentor: Lukas Dow
Clinical Mentor: Leonard Saltz
Project Title: Targeting regenerative reprogramming in colorectal cancer
Project Title: Preclinical functional genetic mouse model to study novel medical countermeasures to protect against radiation enteritis
Barbara (Gila) Spitzer
Department: Pediatrics
Training Period: 2016-2019
Current Position: Section Chief, Pediatric BMT Hackensack Meridian Health
Laboratory Mentor: Ross Levine
Clinical Mentor: Eytan Stein
Project Title: Characterizing transcriptional and epigenetic signatures induced by FLT3 activation to rationally design targeted therapies for FLT3/ITD AML
Simone Krebs
Department: Radiology
Training Period: 2016-2020
Current Position: Assistant Attending
Laboratory Mentor: Steven Larson
Clinical Mentor: Heiko Schoder
Project Title: Developing non-immunogenic, sensitive, and specific tracking strategies for monitoring clinical cell therapy trials
Project Title: The Development of a CD19 Targeted Chimeric Antigen Receptor T cell Secreting an Immune-Modulating Cytokine for the Treatment of Relapsed and Refractory Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
Project Title: Defining the oncogenic impact of genetic alterations in endosomal pH regulators and their implications in resistance to targeted therapies
