Atherosclerosis is the leading cause of cardiovascular disease, accounting for nearly 30% of deaths in the United States. Patients with late-stage atherosclerosis suffer [...]

How injury or neurodegenerative disease alter neural circuit function remains unclear. In this thesis, I explored how axotomy affects severed axons and adjacent uninjured [...]

Certain cancers, including gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) and subsets of melanoma, are caused by somatic KIT mutations that result in constitutive KIT receptor tyr [...]