Explore the UF Health Cancer Institute’s 2023 Predoctoral Award recipients, highlighting the students selected for their promising cancer research including their mentor and dissertation title.
Madison Carelock
Mentor: Weizhou Zhang, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: “Attenuating breast cancer metastasis with BCL-XL-targeting PROTACs”
Anna DeVries
Mentor: Elias Sayour, M.D., Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: “Establishing the cross-talk mechanisms between innate and adaptive immunity following systemic mRNA vaccination”
Zachary Greenberg
Mentor: Mei He, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: “AI-driven methods to engineer extracellular vesicles for precision cancer immunotherapy”
Nicholas Hiers
Mentor: Mingyi Xie, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: “Identification of miRNA-Associated Therapeutic Targets in Cancer”
