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Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Acute Pain Prediction in Oral Cavity and Oropharyngeal Cancer Patients Receiving Radiation Therapy, Vivian Salama
Cord Blood-Derived Invariant Natural Killer T Cells as a Platform for Allogeneic Chimeric Antigen Receptor Cell Therapy, Maison Grefe
Decoding Treatment Resistance and Genotype-Phenotype Interactions at Single Cell Resolution, Rui Ye
Dysmorphology Training and Utility in Genetic Counseling, Maria G. Hernandez
Dysmorphology Training and Utility in Genetic Counseling, Maria Hernandez and Maria Hernandez
Efficacy of Genetic Testing Methodologies for Prenatal Detection of Skeletal Anomalies and Craniosynostosis Syndromes, Nicolette Murphey
Epigenetic Modification as a Therapeutic Target in BRAFV600E-mutated Metastatic Colorectal Cancer, Hey Min Lee
EVALUATION OF AN END-TO-END RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNING PIPELINE FOR PROSTATE CANCER, Mohammad Daniel El Basha, Court Laurence, Carlos Eduardo Cardenas, Julianne Pollard-Larkin, Steven Frank, David T. Fuentes, Falk Poenisch, and Zhiqian H. Yu
Exploring the Role of IL-1β/IL-1R in the Pathogenesis of K-ras Mutant Lung Cancer, Avantika Krishna
Fraud in Genetic Testing: Swindling the System, Rachel Notestine, Rachel Notestine, and Claire N. Singletary
High-dimensional Mediation Analysis of Multi-Omics Data, Sunyi Chi
HISTONE LYSINE METHYLTRANSFERASE NSD3 GOVERNS TRANSCRIPTIONAL PROGRAMS THAT DRIVE PANCREATIC NEUROENDOCRINE TUMORS (PANNETS), Mary Esmeralda Fuentes
Impact of Genetic Counseling on Patient Empowerment After Diagnosis of Fetal Anomaly, Carley Brueckner
Inclusion of Adoption as a Pregnancy Management Option in Prenatal Genetic Counseling Practice, Emma Billings
Influential Factors for Disclosing a Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Diagnosis to Romantic Partners, Laura Gorecki
Investigating the role of the gut microbiota on immune checkpoint inhibitor-mediated colitis, Taylor Halsey and Robert Jenq
Loss of Ptdss1 in tumor cells improves anti-PD-1 therapy, Jielin Liu
Methods for the Prediction of Osteoradionecrosis resulting from Head and Neck Cancer Radiation Therapy, Brandon Reber
MISMATCH REPAIR DEFICIENT NEOANTIGEN AND ASSOCIATED CIRCULATING T-CELL RECEPTOR REPERTOIRES IN LYNCH SYNDROME, Ana Bolivar
Molecular Mechanisms of Opioid Use Disorder in Human Brain Models, Emily Mendez
MUTATIONAL LANDSCAPE OF NONCODING ULTRACONSERVED ELEMENTS IN HUMAN CANCERS: FUNCTIONAL RELEVANCE AND CLINICAL UTILITY, Recep Bayraktar
Novel roles of microtubule-associated tau in radiation-induced brain injury, Riya Thomas and Riya Thomas
Patient Preferences for Ultrasound Soft Sign Disclosure with Prior Negative cfDNA Screening, Disha Patel