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Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Acute Pain Prediction in Oral Cavity and Oropharyngeal Cancer Patients Receiving Radiation Therapy, Vivian Salama
Biophysical Model of Retraction Motor Neurons and Their Modification by Operant Conditioning, Maria Rasheed
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
Dissecting the Relationship between Mucin 5AC and the Lung/Gut Microbiome in the Pathogenesis of K-ras Mutant Lung Cancer, Maria T. Grimaldo
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
Epiregulin as a Novel Target for Antibody-Drug Conjugate Development for the Treatment of Colorectal Cancer, Joan Jacob
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
Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycans in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDAC), Madelaine Theardy
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
Importance of specific NK cell subsets for antitumor immunity in HPV+ cancers, Madison O'Hara
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
Interrogating therapeutic resistance to oncogenic KRASG12C-based therapies in colorectal cancer, Oluwadara Coker
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