Summer Experience 2023 Posters
The MD Anderson Summer Experience is an umbrella program of the various academic summer programs at MD Anderson. The umbrella program provides activities such as lectures, seminars, workshops, poster presentation and networking events. This is in addition to the hand-on research training they receive from their faculty mentors. Research posters presented in this collection are a summary of the research activities of our students during their internship at MD Anderson.
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Exploring the Relationship Between Stomal Supply Usage and Communication Participation in Tracheoesophageal Speakers Following Total Laryngectomy
Emmeline Kenealy, Sheila Buoy MPH, Katherine Hutcheson PhD, and Barbara Ebersole MA
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Fabrication of radiopaque, drug loaded resorbable inferior vena cava filters
Sophie T. Melancon, Erin Marie D. San Valentin, Marvin R. Bernadino, Tyler C. Owens, Allan J. Barcena, and Steven Y. Huang
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Fucosylation Enhances Activity of Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cells Against Lung Cancer
Kathleen Elise Ready, Gheath Alatrash, Zara Italia, Na Qiao, Mao Zhang, Pariya Sukhumalchandra, Elizabeth Mittendorf, and Elizabeth Shpall
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Generation of MLE-15 IRF9 knockdown cells for studying the antimicrobial role of TLRs agonist-induced lung epithelium’s reactive oxygen species
Carlson H. Ogata, Mbaya Ntita PhD, and Scott E. Evans MD
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High Fiber Dietary Intervention Induces Change in Role of Faecalibacterium Prausnitzii in Gut Microbiome Ecosystem
Daniel Cyrus Mousavi, Aditya Mishra, Nadim Ajami, Yan JIang, Tessa M. Kus, Erma Levy, Marco Montalvo, Jennifer Wargo, Carrie Daniel MacDougall, and Jennifer McQuade
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Hormone Effects on Extracellular Vesicle Production and Loading from Breast Cancer Cells
Melinda Dae; Natalie Fan; Lan Pang; and George A. Calin MD, PhD
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Hypoxia inducible factor 1a in kidney cancer
Dalia Lina Karimi, Daisha Lewis, Pedro Pasquera, Niki M. Zacharias, Tapati Maity, Nasir Uddin, Pavlos Msaouel, and Steve Millward
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Identifying and Characterizing Genetic Variants Associated with Colorectal Cancer
Medha Kaul, Yao Yu PhD, Ryan Bohlender PhD, and Chad Huff PhD
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Identifying the Most Prevalent Psychosocial Concerns in Lung Cancer Patients and their Caregivers
Gabriela Marisol Perez, Aileen Chen, Rosangela Silva, and Kathrin Milbury
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Identifying the Prevalence of Vitamin C Deficiency and Examining the Associated Factors in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults with Cancer
Katharine G. Stevens; Miriam B. Garcia DO; Karen Moody MD; Kimberly Kresta APRN; Eduardo Gonzalez Villareal; Grace Waterman; Scherezade K. Mama; and Maria Chang Swartz PhD, MPH
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Impact of Demographic and Clinical Factors on Remote Patient Monitoring Acceptance
Priyanka Subramanian, Eileen H. Shinn, Annabel Guevara, Shivani Patel, Hilary Ma, and Susan K. Peterson
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Improving The Efficiency of Prostate MRI Segmentation workflow through computerized provider order entry (OneConnect)
Nadia Dido and Tharakeswara Bathala
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Inflammatory Pseudotumors Induced by AdCre in Transgenic Oncopigs After In Situ Induction
Samantha Hicks, Danielle Stolley, Maria Sophia Stenkamp, Derek Smetanik, Erica Moore, William Norton, Erik Cressman, and Natalie W. Fowlkes
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Integrating Cervical Cancer Prevention Services to Improve Healthcare Access in the Texas Rio Grande Valley
Alaina Le, Kathleen M. Schmeler, Melissa V. Lopez, Ellen S. Baker, Miila P. Salcedo, Jessica Milan, Monica Pippin, Reina Guerrero, and Kidist Daniel
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Interventions Reducing Racial/Ethnic Disparities Across the Cancer Care Continuum: A Scoping Review
Milan S. George, Matheus Moreira, Gabriela Brandão, Bruno Carvalho, Ana Comini, Carlos Jorge, Beatriz Pessôa, Alice Marinho, Isabele Miyawaki, Pedro Reis, Caroliny Silva, Débora Xavier, Rachel Hicklen, Lama Nazer, Felipe Batalini, Benjamin Kann, Lisa Lowenstein, Lorna McNeill, and John Lin
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In the Driver’s Seat: Driving towards a career in cancer prevention research
Joann Jung, Madeline O'Grady, Devasmita Chakraverty, Hwa Young Lee, Cheryl Anderson, and Shine Chang
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Investigating Copy Number Alterations and Mutational Signatures in Ultra Rare CNS Tumors
Kristy Mendoza Rangel and Kadir Caner Akdemir
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Investigating the Function of Arginine Methylation at Two Mutated Sites of CBP by CARM1
Nicole Dawson, Jee Won Hwang, and Margarida Albuquerque Almeida Santos
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Let's Talk About Death: Use of Euphemistic Language in the Medical Context
Amanda Quinn, Nico Nortjé, and Amitabha Palmer
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Levonorgestrel Intrauterine Systems for Primary Prevention and Treatment of Endometrial Hyperplasia and Endometrial Cancer: A Systematic Review
McKenzi I. Thompson, Naomi N. Adjei, M Sol Basabe, Amy K. Schneider, David Farris, Charlotte C. Sun, and Larissa A. Meyer
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LINAC-Based Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for Benign Tumors of the Skull Base
Anika Patel; Anna Lee M.D., MPH; Catherine Wang Ph.D.; and Jack Phan M.D., Ph.D
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Long non-coding RNA regulation of therapeutic response in metastatic cells
Srithan Allada; Maria-Ancuta Jurj; and George A. Calin MD, PhD
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Management of Small Early-stage HER2-positive Breast Cancer: Trends and Outcomes
Natasha S. Muppidi and Mediget Teshome MD, MPH, FACS
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Maximum NI-RADS Primary Score as Predictor of Pathologic Recurrence in Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Treated with Definitive Radiation Therapy
Dharti Patel; Jolee Nguyen; Ethan Wang; Maura Gillison MD, PhD; Stephen Lai MD, PhD; C. D. Fuller MD, PhD; Amy Moreno MD; and Jason M. Johnson MD
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Non-coding RNA 886 Predicts HPV Status and Survival in Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Patients
Saawan Patel and Guojun Li
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Novel Computer-Aided Detection of Respiratory Misregistration Artifacts in PET/CT
Shirley Pandya and Tinsu Pan
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Optimizing Of The High-Throughput DNA Repair Assay For Immunotherapy
Joauna Carter, Guang Peng, and Xueqian Cheng
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Pancreatic Cancer Early Detection trough Hyperpolarized MRI
Sriya Rao Mechineni, Jose Enriquez, Prasanta Dutta, Florencia McAllister, and Pratip K. Bhattacharya PhD
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Patients’ first line chemotherapy choice and treatment outcomes for HER2 positive breast cancer
Hui Zhao and Jamie J. Laureano
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Pembrolizumab Enhances the Anti-Leukemia Activity of Antigen Specific Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes
Zara Italia, Kathleen Ready, Mao Zhang, Maria R. Khouri, Pariya Sukhumalchandra, Anne V. Phillips, Na Qiao, Celine Kerros, Lisa St. John, Alexander A. Perakis, Daniel Ghaisariee, Karen Clise-Dwyer, Elizabeth Mittendorf, Naval G. Daver, Jeffrey J. Molldrom, Qing Ma, and Gheath Alatrash
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Phase 1 Results: Cultural Adaptation of a Mindfulness-Based Intervention for Latino Cancer Patients and Their Caregivers
Josheili Y. Llavona-Ortiz, Elizabeth Dominguez, Jaquelin Hernandez, Rosangela Silva, Kathrin Milbury, and Larkin L. Strong
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PLK4 as a Novel Therapeutic Target in TP53-mutant Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Sima Fay Koyfman; Jingqi Pei PhD; Po Yee Mak MS; Edward Ayoub PhD; Michael Andreeff MD, PhD; and Bing Z. Carter PhD
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Preclinical Testing of Metabolic Inhibitors with Erlotinib in Renal Medullary Carcinoma
Daisha Lewis, Dalia Karimi, Pedro Pesquera, Tapati Maity, Manuel Ozambela, Pavlos Msaouel, and Niki M. Zacharias
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Pre-operative portal vein ligation and MSC injection in a rat model
Vincent Lin, Allan John R. Barcena, Marvin R. Bernardino, Archana Mishra, Erin Marie D. San Valentin, Steven Y. Huang, and Marites P. Melancon
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Primary Hurthle cell thyroid carcinoma treated with surgery: A single institution experience of 92 patients
Ella E. Hawes, Sameer H. Siddiqui, Xu Li, Madeline Gallagher, Daniel Fox MD, Bobian Michael MD, and Mark Zafereo MD
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Project Self – Pilot Study testing the feasibility of implementing HPV self-collection kits among African American and Hispanic women
Pamela Dayana Morales Diaz and Surendranath Shastri
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Prospective Study Evaluating Management of Hypertension Induced by anti-VEGF Therapy in Patients with Active Cancer: VEGFHTN Trial
Otoniel Abraham Zelaya, Noah Beinart, Adam S. Potter, Aung Naing, Elizabeth Pierce, Rebecca Caldwell, Gaspar Pina, Praise A. Oderinde, Cezar Iliescu MD, Efstratios Koutroumpakis, Anita Deswal MD MPH, and Nicolas Palaskas MD
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Pseudoprogression After Proton Therapy of Pediatric Spinal Pilocytic Astrocytoma and Myxopapillary Ependymoma
Sofia V. Ramirez Mateo, Jason Johnson, Stephen F. Kralik, David R. Grosshans, Mary Frances McAleer, Wafik Zaky, Patricia A. Baxter, Frank Y. Lin, Murali Chintagumpala, Arnold Paulino, and Susan L. McGovern
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Psilocybin’s Effects on Neuritogenesis in Cancer Associated Neurons
Josiah M. Miller, Shamima Akhter, Tongxin Xie, Frederico O. Netto, Blake Myers, Sahana Lothumalla, Shajedul Islam, Adewale Adebayo, and Moran Amit
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Structural Disruptions of the 3D Genome Architecture in Human Brain Cancer
Ellie Rahm Kim and Kadir Caner Akdemir
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Sublingual Hyoscyamine versus Glucagon on the Diagnostic Performance of Multi-Parametric MRI in Detecting Prostate Cancer
Mason Cordell Neal and Tharakeswara Bathala
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Synthesis of Azido block copolymers for Targeting and Labeling Micelle
Xiaoqi Yu, Guodong Zhang, and Chun Li
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Targeting Interleukin-27 Receptor α in Murine HGSC Cells
Meghana Kavarthapu, Anna Szymanowska, Paola Amero, Cristian Rodriguez-Aguayo, and Gabriel Lopez-Berestein
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Targeting Nociceptive and Cholinergic Nerves in Irradiated Oropharyngeal Cancer Model Reveals Novel Mechanism for Dysphagia
Blake Myers, Shajedul Islam, Frederico O. Netto, Kala Debnath, Snigdha Srivastava, Tongxin Xie, Shamima Akhter, Adewale Adebayo, Josiah M. Miller, Sahana Lothumalla, Hinduja Sathishkumar, and Moran Amit
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T cell receptor engineering targeting FOXM1 for the treatment of lung cancer
Isabel M. Perez-Sandi, Alexandre Reuben, Minying Zhang, Hui Nie, Peixin Jiang, Cassian Yee, Gregory Lizee, and John V. Heymach
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The Associations of Cancer’s Financial Stress on the Patient-Caregiver Dyad’s Sleep and Psychological Well-Being
Sarah G. Brumley, Juliet L. Kroll, Grace Smith, Mariana Chavez-MacGregor, Cindy Carmack, and Kathrin Milbury
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The Correlation Between Exercise and Sleep in Postmenopausal Women
Rachel Xiangmeng Sun and Karen M. Basen-Engquist
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The Effect of Anxiety Disorders on Smoking Cessation in Cancer Patients
Blair I. Bath, Maher Karam-Hage, and George Kypriotakis