2022 Alumni
(From left to right) Top row: Abdul-Vehab Dozic, Josephine Chen, Bailey Levin, Anusha Chegu, Anjali Shinde, Aidan Wirrick; Bottom row: Siyang Peng, Shravasti Ray, Abrielle Swartz, Alexandra Dalrymple
Anusha Chegu
Washington University in St. Louis
Mentor: Philipp Niethammer
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Investigating the Role of the Eicosanoid Pathway in Osmotic Surveillance and Wound Detection through Vascular Endothelial Cell Responses in Larval Zebrafish
Josephine Chen
Cornell University
Mentor: Jason Lewis
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Evaluation of a MUC1-Targeted Immunoconjugate for PET, NIRF, and Multimodal Imaging of Ovarian Cancer
Alexandra Dalrymple
Yale University
Mentor: Vladimir Ponomarev
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Monitoring the efficacy of CEA-specific CAR-T cell therapy in preventing colorectal cancer metastasis
Abdul-Vehab Dozic
University of Florida
Mentor: Jan Grimm
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: A User-Friendly Automated Clinical Cerenkov Luminescence Imaging System
Bailey Levin
Tufts University
Mentor: Alexandros Pertsinidis
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Integration of Adaptive Optics into an Interferometric Lattice Light Sheet Microscope
Siyang Peng
University of Wisconsin Madison
Mentor: Philipp Niethammer
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Studying the Role of the Oxo-eicosanoid receptor in intestinal inflammation
Shravasti Ray
Cornell University
Mentor: Kayvan Keshari
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: GLUT5 Overexpression Increases Fructose Metabolism in vitro
Anjali Shinde
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Mentor: Milind Rajadhyksha
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: PARPi-FL Staining for Melanoma Diagnosis
Abrielle Swartz
St. Lawrence University
Mentor: Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Spatial annotation of single-cell RNAseq data using multiplex 3D imaging
Aidan Wirrick
University of Missouri Columbia
Mentor: Kishore Pillarsetty
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Pharmacokinetics of a Model Antigen from Adjuvanted Vaccines using Nuclear Techniques
2021 Alumni
Amala Akkiraju
University of California, Berkeley
Mentor: Kayvan Keshari
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Using a Diamond Microscope for Metabolic Imaging
Jessica Das
CUNY Hunter College
Mentor: Agnel Sfeir
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Visualizing Polymerase Theta (POLQ) at DNA Double Strand Breaks
Roberto De Gregorio
CUNY Brooklyn College
Mentor: Jason Lewis
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: PET imaging of acidic tumor microenvironment with 89Zr-labeled membrane inserting peptides
Michael Dimitrov
Adelphi University
Mentor: Jason Lewis
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: yH2AX-a marker for double strand breaks in pancreatic cancer
Ghazal (Hazel) Kamyabi
University of California, Berkeley
Mentor: Jan Grimm
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Doxas for Treatment of Cancer Cells
Dennis Kinyua
Brown University
Mentor: Philipp Niethammer
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Using cPla2 as a mechano-sensor to study nuclear membrane mechanics in live cultured cells
Julia (Kat) McKinnis
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Mentor: Vladimir Ponomarev
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Developing novel, noninvasive approaches for longitudinal in vivo imaging of T lymphocyte and tumor cell fate
Kaitlin Rhee
University of California, Berkeley
Mentor: Nagavarakishore Pillarsetty
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Synthesis and evaluation of PET imaging probes
2020 Alumni
Shanjeed Ali
Hunter College
Mentor: Jason Lewis
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Imaging Activated Vγ9Vδ2 T-cells Utilizing Phosphoantigen Binding to the BTN3A1 Protein and Click Chemistry
Gregory Cain
Harvard University
Mentor: Jan Grimm
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Rosemary Chen
Brown University
Mentor: Michelle Bradbury
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Nanotechnology and Molecular Imaging in Surgical Applications
Nina Filippone
Binghamton University
Mentor: Thomas Reiner
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Development validation and translational of novel imaging agents
Julia Gutierrez
New York University
Mentor: Nagavakishore Pillarsetty
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: PET probes for identifying cancer subtypes
Rebecca Litvak
Hunter College
Mentor: Vladimir Ponomarev
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Reporter Gene Imaging
Jose Montalvo Rivera
University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
Mentor: David Schneiberg
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: A Quest for Ligand Targets of Next Generation Gated CAR T Cells
Ariel Pan
University of Chicago
Mentor: Jason Lewis
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: 86Y uPAR antibody for senescent cell imaging
Akash Patel
The College of New Jersey
Mentor: Kayvan Keshari
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Novel approaches to cancer metabolism for diagnosis and treatment
2019 Alumni
(From left to right) Top row: Caleb Sooknanan, Catherine Fitzgerald, Abigail Kostolansky, Josiah Celestine; Middle row: Andriy Yatsykiv, Charlotte Thomas, Gianna Mincone, Dylan Manuele, Spencer Kaminsky Bottom row: Claudia Wong, Xuwen (Alice) Zheng, Catherine Stratis
Josiah Celestine
University of Florida
Mentor: Kishore Pillarsetty
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Modulation of Prostate Specific Membrane Antigen (PSMA) as a Response to Treatment in Prostate Cancer
Catherine Fitzgerald
University of Melbourne
Mentor: Jason Lewis
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: A MUC16-targeted humanized antibody for in vivo PET/CT imaging of pancreatic cancer
Spencer Kaminsky
Washington University
Mentor: Jason Lewis
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Development of an indirect antibody internalization assay using radiolabeled antigen-binding fragments
Abigail Kostolansky
Princeton University
Mentor: Thomas Reiner
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: PARP Expression and PARPi-FL Uptake in Esophageal Normal Tissue and Adenocarcinoma
Dylan Manuele
University of Rochester
Mentor: Thomas Reiner
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Spider Venom Peptide for Imaging Nerves
Gianna Mincone
Bucknell University
Mentor: Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Dynamic spatial coupling of key lineage transcription factors GATA6 and NANOG during the Inner Cell Mass lineage allocation process in mouse embryo
Caleb Sooknanan
Stony Brook
Mentor: Peter Gibbs
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: The Added Value of Diffusion-Weighted and Contrast-Enhanced Imaging Data Types within Breast MRI Radiomics
Catherine Stratis
Hunter College
Mentor: Jan Grimm
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Tumor-on-a-Chip to Evaluate the Role of Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen (PSMA)
Charlotte Thomas
Duke University
Mentor: Jan Grimm
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Prodrug of Doxazolidine Activatable via Reactive Oxygen Species
Claudia Wong
University of California, Berkeley
Mentor: Kayvan Keshari
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Identifying the Mechanism of Metabolic Plasticity of Leukemic Cells in Glucose-Limited Environment
Andriy Yatsykiv
Hunter College
Mentor: Michelle Bradbury
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Ultrasmall Renally Clearable Silica Nanoparticle Targets Prostate Cancer
Xuwen Zheng
Johns Hopkins University
Mentor: Morgan Huse
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: The Role of MRTF on Cancer Cell Biophysical Properties
2018 Alumni
(From left to right) Top row: Vivian Huang, Luanna Chan, Micaela Millan, Kiara Cruickshank, Jack Berry, George Diehl (not pictured); Bottom row: Chace Carpenter, Veer Shah, Ariana Bitton, Jenny Ijoma, Elizabeth Rieger
Jack Berry
University of Newcastle
Mentor: Jason Lewis
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Radiolabeling of the scorpion venom peptide chlorotoxin with indium-111 for the molecular imaging of brain tumors
Ariana Bitton
University of Wisconsin Madison
Mentor: Kishore Pillarsetty
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: BMT Liposomes Study
Chace Carpenter
University of Vermont
Mentor: Jan Grimm
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Cerenkov Luminescence-Activatable Imaging Probes and T herapies
Luanna Chan
Johns Hopkins University
Mentor: Charles Rudin
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: A High-Diversity, Ribosome Display Library for Cyclic Peptide Probe Discovery
Kiara Cruickshank
Clarkson University
Mentor: Michelle Bradbury
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Ultrasmall Silica Nanoparticles for Enhanced Prostate Cancer Detection
George Diehl
Vassar College
Mentor: Jason Lewis
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: 52Mn-DOTA-pHLIP as a PET Tracer and the Cyclotron Production of 90Nb
Vivian Huang
Emory University
Mentor: Morgan Huse
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Enhancing Tumor Cell Sensitivity to T Cell Killing by Using Optogenetics
Jenny Ijoma
New York University
Mentor: Ronald Blasberg
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: The effect of LDH-A inhibition in the metabolism and microenvironment of MycCaP prostate cancer cells and tumors
Micaela Millan
Hunter College
Mentor: Kayvan Keshari
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: MR Imaging of Hyperpolarized [1-13C] Pyruvate and Lactate Using the Three-Point Dixon Method
Elizabeth Rieger
University of Pennsylvania
Mentor: Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Automated cell tracking in pre-implantation mouse embryos
Veer Shah
Northeastern University
Mentor: Thomas Reiner
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Project: Optical imaging of PARP1 expression in oral and esophageal cancers