Nicholas Borcherding, MD, PhD

• Defense: November 19, 2018  Big Data Analytics and Cancer Biology: Lessons in Taking Science from the Processor to the Patient  
• Mentor: Weizhou Zhang, MD
• Awarded MD, PhD in Cancer Biology and Medicine in Spring 2020
• Current position:  Head of Computational Biology at Omniscope and Consulting Senior Computational Biologist at Santa Ana Bio, Inc. 
• Previously: Pathology resident at Washington University in St. Louis.
• Publications

Ajaykumar Vishwakarma, MS, MBA 

• Mentor: Ali Salem, PhD
• 2017-2020
• Current position: Founder, Managing Director, and CEO of Cell Bioengines LLC since 2019
• Publications

Zhaoming Wang, MSBS, PhD

• Defense: June 17, 2021  Antibody Therapy and the Tumor Microenvironment
• Mentor: George Weiner, MD
• Awarded PhD in Cancer Biology in Summer 2021
• Current position: Physician-Scientist at ZhongShan Hospital, Fudan University in Shanghai, China.   
• Previously: Attending physician at Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center.
• Publications

Devon Moose, PhD

• Defense: November 12, 2021   The Influence of Hemodynamic Shear Stress on Circulating Tumor Cells
• Mentor:  Michael Henry, PhD
• Awarded PhD in Cancer Biology in Fall 2021
• Current position: Postdoctoral Scholar in Dr. Sean Morrison’s lab at University of Texas: Southwestern Medical Center
• Publications

Eliot Zhu, MD, PhD

• Defense:  January 7, 2022   Modeling therapy resistance to targeted BRAF inhibition in cutaneous melanoma
• Mentor: Adam Dupuy, PhD
• Awarded MD, PhD in Cancer Biology and Medicine in Spring 2023
• Current position: Resident at University of Texas - Southwestern Medical Center
• Publications

Keith Garcia, PhD

• Defense: July 7, 2022    TAZ and YAP dysregulation in sarcomas
• Mentor: Munir Tanas, MD
• Awarded PhD in Cancer Biology in Summer 2022
• Current position: Postdoctoral Scholar in Dr. Ashby Morrison's lab at Stanford University
• Publications

Wade Gutierrez

• Defense: October 17, 2022  Elucidating the Mechanism of a Novel Chemotherapy Regimen for Soft Tissue Sarcomas
• Mentor: Rebecca Dodd, PhD
• Current position: Completing medical school, and then will graduate with MD, PhD
• Publications

Divya Bhat, PhD

• Defense: April 6, 2023  Therapeutic disruption of RAD52-ssDNA complexation using novel drug like scaffolds
• Mentor: Maria Spies, PhD 
• Awarded PhD in Cancer Biology in Spring 2023
• Current position: Postdoctoral scholar in Dr. Ali Salem's laboratory at the University of Iowa
• Publications