The third cohort of pre-and postdoctoral trainees joined the TICaRT Program in August 2025. They will spend two years in the program, working as teams on joint projects.
Team Project: Integrated RNA Delivery and Transcriptional Inhibition Strategy for Refractory Lung Cancers
Predoctoral Fellow, Pharmaceutical Sciences-Pharmaceutics
Kevon Jolly
Mentor: Fan Zhang, Ph.D.
Predoctoral Fellow, Biomedical Sciences-Cancer Biology
Kyle Scheller
Mentor: Lizi Wu, Ph.D.
Team Project: Computational Modeling Assisted Development of NRF2-Targeting PROTACs
Predoctoral Fellow, Biomedical Sciences-Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Lewis Alexander
Mentors: Donna Zhang, Ph.D. & Eli Chapman, Ph.D.
Predoctoral Fellow, Biomedical Sciences-Biochemistry & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Michael MacNair
Mentor: Chenglong Li, Ph.D.
Team Project: From Stemness to Surveillance: An Interdisciplinary, Bioprinting Approach to Understanding Neurodevelopmental Antigens in T-cell Therapy for Glioblastoma
Predoctoral Fellow, Engineering-Biomedical Engineering
Tia Monjure
Mentor: Thomas E. Angelini, Ph.D.
Predoctoral Fellow, medical Sciences-Neuroscience
Caitland Love
Mentors: Catherine Flores, Ph.D. & Duane A. Mitchell, M.D., Ph.D.
Team Project: Spatial Profiling of Ganglioside Distribution and Biosynthetic Regulation in Human Astrocytomas Using Integrated Transcriptomic and Lipidomic Approaches
Predoctoral Fellow, COMPARATIVE BIOMEDICAL Sciences
Gabriela Hery
Mentors: Rowan Milner, BVSc (Hons), MMedVet, Ph.D., DECVIM (Oncology) & Liang Zhou, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Sadi Quinones-Al-Muhtaseb
Mentor: Ramon C. Sun, Ph.D.
