School of Medicine & Health Sciences

DaCCoTA Professional Development Awardees

Recipients of DaCCoTA Scholars Awards

	Validation of ExoIPThT a Novel Assay Targeting Exosomal Proteins’ Secondary Structure as a Pancreatic Cancer Screening Assay PI - Dali Sun, PhD (NDSU) Mentor - Preston Steen, MD (Sanford) Award Year - Spring 2020
	Artificial intelligence to correlate proteomic and genomic data together with clinicopathologic and demographic attributes to predict breast cancer outcome PI – Sandeep Singhal, PhD (UND) Mentor – Don Sens, PhD (UND) Award Year - Spring 2019
	Tumor innervation in ovarian cancer PI – Paola Vermeer, PhD (Sanford) Mentors – Maria Bell, MD (Sanford); Keith Miskimins, PhD (USD) Award Year - Spring 2019
	AKT/mTOR pathway in obesity and colorectal cancer (CRC): Molecular interconnections and potential clinical applications PI – Khosrow Rezvani, MD, PhD (USD) Mentors – George Angelos, MD (Sanford); Muslim Atiq, MD (Sanford) Award Year - Fall 2018

Recipients of DaCCoTA Community Engagement Scholars Awards

Intervention to promote breast cancer screening among American Indian women

PI – Soonhee Roh, PhD (USD)

Mentor – DenYelle Kenyon, PhD (USD)

Award Year - Fall 2019

Creating and administering a tribally informed risk and protective factor survey utilizing an indigenous mixed methods approach

PI – Melanie Nadeau, PhD, MPH (UND)

Mentor – Marilyn Klug, PhD (UND)

Award Year - Spring 2019

Clinical Research Opportunities Program Awardees

Breast cancer patterns and behavior in American Indians in the US

PI - Anu Gaba, MD (Sanford)

Mentors – Ross Crosby, PhD (Sanford); Kristi Egland, PhD (Sanford)

Award Year - Spring 2019

Tool for monitoring chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN)

Dan Steventon, DPT (Sanford)

Mentors – Sam Milanovich, MD (Sanford); Patti Berg-Poppe, PhD (USD)

Award Year - Fall 2018