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Spring 2013

Tang,Yanan

Quantitative proteomics has been increasingly recognized as a key research topic in proteomics research, as it enumerates changes of proteins’ expression level in a bio-system. Quantitative proteomics provides an important way to discover biomarkers for disease diagnosis and prognosis, and also...

Spring 2022

Yuan, Zhipeng

The ultimate goal of this thesis research was to design, fabricate, and characterize an integrated nanotheranostics platform for activatable doxorubicin delivery and simultaneous MRI- radiosensitization for synergistic cancer therapy, targeting breast cancer treatment. As shown in the diagram,...

Fall 2013

Sahin,B

The aim of this work is to develop an effective non-viral carrier and to identify suitable gene targets that would induce apoptosis specifically in lymphoma cells upon down-regulation with short interfering RNA (siRNA). Lymphoma is common in children and young adults, and although survival rate...

Fall 2012

DeSilva, Alan D

While adenoviral (Ad) vectors are the most commonly used gene delivery vector for human gene therapy, improvements must be made to increase Ad specificity to tumors if they are to be used for cancer gene therapy. Our goal is to target adenoviral vectors to breast cancer (BrCa) cells to induce...

Fall 2011

Binkhathlan, Ziyad

One of the major causes of failure in cancer chemotherapy is multidrug resistance (MDR), where cancer cells become resistant to different types of anticancer drugs. Over-expression of membrane efflux pumps like P-glycoprotein (P-gp), which recognizes different chemotherapeutic agents and...

Spring 2022

Brown, Douglas Wilson

Gene therapy has potential to become the Holy Grail of modern medicine, however, its clinical success has been hindered due to the lack of a safe and effective nucleic acid delivery platform. The recent success of non-viral RNA delivery platforms has revitalized the field and spurred great...

Spring 2023

Woodfield, Jenilee D

Imaging of hypoxia has been previously achieved using positron emission tomography (PET) with radiotracers such as [18F]fluoroazomycin arabinoside ([18F]FAZA) [1] or [18F]fluoromisonidazole ([18F]FMISO) [2]. These typical nitroimidazole containing compounds are reductively trapped in hypoxic...

Spring 2019

Abdulsalam Alharbi

One of the major limitations of chemotherapy in cancer treatment is the side effects of anti-cancer drugs. This happens due to non-selective distribution of most standard chemotherapies, and their action on cancer and all normal dividing cells. The objective of this project is to develop a novel...

Fall 2010

Alshamsan, Aws

In many tumors, persistently-active signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) imparts several oncogenic features such as survival, proliferation, angiogenesis, and immune escape. Therefore, STAT3 targeting in cancer and cancer-exposed dendritic cells (DCs) is important for cancer...

Fall 2017

Barber, Quinn

For cancer research, a powerful imaging modality for both preclinical (where the focus is on imaging small animals) and clinical (where the focus is on imaging human subjects) applications should be inexpensive, portable, noninvasive, safe, and capable of measuring a myriad of information....