Graduate School of Medical Sciences
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2023 NIH F31 Awardees

Friday, June 30, 2023

Samsara Upadhya | F31 from NIGMS | April 15, 2023 | BCMB Allied PhD Program | Mentored by Tobias Meyer at Weill
Cornell Medicine | “Single-cell dynamics of E2F and APC/CCdh1 coordination that regulate the proliferation-quiescence
decision”

Bryce Delgado | F31 from NIGMS | July 26, 2022 | BCMB Allied PhD Program | Mentored by Stephen B. Long
at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | “Investigating the molecular mechanisms of Ca2+ selectivity and
Ca2+ potentiation of the mitochondrial calcium uniporter”

Stephanie Jackvony | F31 from NIA | September 1, 2022 | Neuroscience PhD Program | Mentored by Anna Orr at Weill
Cornell Medicine | “Effects of TDP-43 Pathology on Innate Antiviral Mechanisms in Neurodegenerative Disease”

Gillian Carling | F31 from NIA | August 18, 2022 | Neuroscience PhD Program | Mentored by Li Gan at Weill Cornell
Medicine | “TREM2-APOE Pathway in Alzheimer's Disease: Exploring the differential effects of R47H on the APOE3 and
APOE4 backgrounds in a tauopathy model"

Adam Weiner | F31 from NCI | February 24, 2023 | Tri-I Program in Computational Biology & Medicine |
Mentored by Sohrab Shah at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | “Quantifying replication dynamics to
predict clonal evolution and drug sensitivity in cancer cells using single-cell whole genome sequencing”

Maryam Pourmaleki | F31 from NCI | July 1, 2022 | Tri-I Program in Computational Biology and Medicine |
Mentored by Sohrab Shah and Ingo Mellinghoff at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Weill Cornell
Medicine | “Towards a spatial view of Ras signaling and immune cell function in NF-1 mutant glioblastoma”

Gabriella N. L. Chua | F31 from NIMH | September 1, 2022 | Tri-Institutional PhD Program in Chemical Biology
| Mentored by Shixin Liu at Rockefeller University | “Single-molecule Investigation of the Interaction Between
MeCP2 and Chromatin”

Alexa Strauss | F31 from NINDS | April 1, 2023 | Tri-I Program in Chemical Biology | Mentored by
Joshua Levitz and Stephen Long at Weill Cornell Medicine and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer
Center | “Structural and Allosteric Mechanisms of mGluR Activation”

Sierra Duca | F31 from NHLBI | July 1, 2022 | PBSB PhD Program | Mentored by Jingli Cao and Geoffrey Pitt
at Weill Cornell Medicine | “Dissecting epicardial contributions to zebrafish heart regeneration at the single-cell
level”

Caroline Broderick | F31 from NCI | July 1, 2022 | Pharmacology PhD Program | Mentored by Scott Lowe at
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | “Investigating the Interplay between Senescent Cells and T Cells in
Cancer”

Chiara Mancinelli | F31 from NIA | December 19, 2022 | Pharmacology PhD Program | Mentored by David
Eliezer at Weill Cornell Medicine | “Elucidating the Effects of Post-Translational Modifications on Tau Binding to
F-actin and PSD95”

Mildred Unti | F31 from NINDS | July 1, 2022 | Pharmacology PhD Program | Mentored by Samie Jaffrey at
Weill Cornell Medicine | “Development of a chemogenetically controlled RNA aggregation system and its
application in elucidating the role of RNA foci in repeat expansion disease”

Kathleen Mills | F31 from NIAID | September 1, 2022 | IMP PhD Program | Mentored by Tobias Hohl at Memorial
Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | “IL-1 signaling in defense against Aspergillus fumigatus infection”

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