Medical Student Summer Fellowship

Student Name	Medical School	Project Title	BTC Faculty Member
Hamideh Moayedpardazi	Mount Sinai School of Medicine	Identifying the Radioresistant "Brain Tumor Stem Cell" Population in an Glioblastoma Multiforme Explant Model	Viviane Tabar, Neurosurgery
Rajiv R. Iyer	New York University School Of Medicine	Understanding Brain Tumor-Related Stroma	Philip Gutin, Neurosurgery; Adilia Hormigo, Neurology
Lilangi Ediriwickrema	Yale University School of Medicine	Modulation of Oncogenic RON Tyrosine Kinase Splicing Isoforms in Glioma	Luca Cartegni, Molecular Pharmacology & Chemistry Program
Ijah Mondesire-Crump	Mount Sinai School of Medicine	The Role of Chemotherapy in Primary Spinal Cord Tumors	Lauren Abrey, Neurology
Valerie Lee	Columbia University	Do Dynamic Susceptibility Contrast Perfusion Imaging and Diffusion Tensor Imaging Predict Tumor Recurrence and Patient Outcome Better than Perfusion Imaging Alone for Patients with Brain Gliomas?	Robert Young, Radiology
Anna Cooper	University of Rochester	Patterns and Outcomes of Treatment in Older Patients with Newly Diagnosed Glioblastoma at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center	Lauren Abrey, Neurology
Ogechukwu Eze	Yale School of Medicine	Gliogene: Identifying Environmental and Genetic Factors that Predispose to Development of Brain Tumors	Lisa DeAngelis, Neurology
Yevgeniya Garshteyn	NYU School of Medicine	Functional MRI of Important Brain Cortices Adjacent to Brain Tumors	Andrei Holodny, Radiology
Tania Sierra	Mount Sinai School of Medicine	Changes in Diffusion Tensor Imaging of the White Matter in Patients with Brain Tumors after Surgery and Radiation Therapy	Robert Young, Radiology
Lisa DeGregoris	Loyola University Chicago, Stritch School of Medicine	Identification of Compounds that Modulate the Cellular Response to DNA Damage	John Petrini, Molecular Biology
Iyabo Muse	SUNY Upstate Medical University	Effect of ABC Transporter on Bioluminescence Imaging (BLI) in a Glioma Mouse Model	Ronald Blasberg, Neurology