Steve received his BS degree in Zhejiang University (China) in 2022 and is now pursing his Master’s degree in Carnegie Mellon University. His academic and professional background is extensively rooted in bioinformatics and computational biology. During his undergraduate research at Zhejiang University Medical School, Steve concentrated on studying lipid metabolism in adipose tissues and delving into single-cell […]
Carter Zivin is an undergraduate student studying Biology and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to working in the Nacev lab, Carter was awarded an undergraduate research grant from Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer to study chromatin dysfunction in pediatric lymphomas in the Sarthy lab at Seattle Children’s Research Institute (SCRI). In her free time, Carter is the […]
Lucas Zheng is an undergraduate at the University of Pittsburgh Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences pursuing a degree in biology with a minor in chemistry and physics. He previously worked as an undergraduate research assistant at Pitt under Dr. Gavin Arteel, studying alcohol induced liver disease his freshman year as well as a research intern at […]
Julia received her M.D. degree at Ross University School of Medicine in 2019. Prior to her medical training, she investigated the expression of CRKNOX genes, which encode a family of homeodomain proteins that regulate gene transcription. She completed her Pediatric Residency at Lehigh Valley Reily Children’s Hospital, in Allentown, PA in 2022. She served as Pediatric Chief Resident from 2021-2022. […]
Sagarika graduated with a master’s degree in microbiology and biochemistry from Duquesne University (Pittsburgh) in 2002. After graduation she worked in cancer research Hillman Cancer Center at the University of Pittsburgh from 2002-2004 as a research specialist in the Department of Pharmacology. She moved to the Department of Immunology and Pulmonary medicine as a research […]
Michael received his Ph.D. degree in Cellular and Microbial biology from the Catholic University of America under the advisement of Dr. Ann Corsi in 2023. The Corsi lab uses Caenorhabditis elegans as a model system to study HLH-8, which is a basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription factor that functions in tissue-specific development. HLH-8 is the homolog […]
Dr. Nacev is a laboratory-based physician scientist with a focus on sarcoma medical oncology and chromatin dysregulation in cancer. Dr. Nacev received his MD and PhD degrees from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine where he studied under PhD mentor, Prof. Jun O. Liu. Dr. Nacev’s doctoral thesis focused on drugs with repurposing potential […]