Mentor: Dr. Corrine Kliment, MD, PhD
Current Year in Program: G3
Awards:
- Carl Storm Fellowship, 2025 GRC Lung Development, Injury & Repair Abstract Presentation Award
- 2024 American Thoracic Society Abstract Award
Publications:
- Sui J, Xiao H, Mbaekwe U, Ting NC, Murday K, Hu Q, Gregory AD, Kapellos TS, Yildirim AÖ, Königshoff M, Zhang Y, Sciurba F, Das J, Kliment CR. Interpretable machine learning uncovers epithelial transcriptional rewiring and a role for Gelsolin in COPD. JCI Insight. 2024 Nov 8;9(21):e180239. doi: 10.1172/jci.insight.180239. PMID: 39352744.
- Ding P, Kharytonchyk S, Waller A, Mbaekwe U, Basappa S, Kuo N, Frank HM, Quasney C, Kidane A, Swanson C, Van V, Sarkar M, Cannistraci E, Chaudhary R, Flores H, Telesnitsky A, Summers MF. Identification of the initial nucleocapsid recognition element in the HIV-1 RNA packaging signal. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 Jul 28;117(30):17737-17746. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2008519117. Epub 2020 Jul 9. PMID: 32647061; PMCID: PMC7395439.
Poster Presentations:
- 2025 Lung Development, Injury and Repair Conference
- 10th Annual Conference on Translational Research in Mitochondria Aging & Disease, 2023
- American Thoracic Society (ATS) International Conference, 2024
- Pittsburgh International Lung Conference, 2024