2005 Medical Research Fellows

Samuel H. Cheshire, M.D., Ph.D.
For training at Stanford University with Dr. Irving L. Weissman.
Brain Tumor Stem Cells: The Role of Wnt in Vivo

Morgan Huse, Ph.D.
For training at Stanford University with Dr. Mark Davis.
A Spatial Analysis of Cytokine Secretion in T Cells.

Kara Pham, Ph.D.
For training at Stanford University with Dr. Irving L. Weissman.
Characterization of CNS Stem Cells and Brain Tumors Using New Antibodies.

David S. Weiss, Ph.D.
For training at Stanford University with Dr. Stanley Falkow.
Elucidation of Francisella tularensis Virulence Mechanisms.

Spencer L. Smith, Ph.D.
For training at the University of California at Los Angeles
with Dr. Joshua Trachtenberg.
Synaptic Substrates of Functional Cortical Plasticity Imaged and Mapped in Vivo.

Madhuri Wadehra, Ph.D.
For training at the University of California at Los Angeles
with Dr. Jonathan Braun.
Role of EMP2 in Determining Pregnancy Outcome.

Jason DeVoss, Ph. D.
For training at the University of California, San Francisco
with Dr. Mark Anderson.
AIRE Deficient Mice - A New Model for Spontaneous Autoimmune Uveitis.

Michael Shiloh, M.D., Ph.D.
For training at the University of California, San Francisco
with Dr. Jeffery Cox.
Role of Carbon Monoxide in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Pathogenesis.

Danielle Ulanet, Ph.D.
For training at the University of California, San Francisco
with Dr. Douglas Hanahan.
Role of Insulin-like Growth Factor-I Receptor Signaling to Invasive Carcinoma Progress in Transgenic Mouse Models of Multi-stage Carcinogenesis.

Jennifer Weisman, Ph.D.
For training at the University of California, San Francisco
with Dr. Fred E. Cohen.
Targeting Malaria via Inhibition of Plasmodium falciparum Enoyl-ACP Reductase.