Address: 5269 MERF
Mentor: Colin Kenny, PhD and Ronald Weigel, MD, PhD
Program: Cancer Biology
Year Entered in Program: 2023

Research Description

Awards

Fellowship appointment on the Pharmacological Sciences Training Program (NIH T32 GM144636), 2024-present

Publications

• Yevdash, J.I., Moore, R., Li, Z., Campbell-Hanson, K.R., Robinson, D., Gutelius, D., Moore, S.P.G., Friend, D., Toole, I., Cornell, R.A., Lang, D., Weigel, RJ., Kenny C. (2025). Mitfa-Independent Melanocyte Progenitors are Highly Susceptible to GNAQ-induced Uveal Melanoma in Adult Zebrafish. bioRxiv, 2025.652300. 10.1101/2025.05.05.652300.
• Chang J, Campbell-Hanson KR, Vanneste M, Bartschat NI, Nagel R, Arnadottir AK, Vu HN, Montgomery C, Yevdash J, Jiang J, Bhinu A, Helverson A, Henry MD, Steingrímsson E, Weigel RJ, Cornell RA, Kenny C. Antagonistic roles for MITF and TFE3 in melanoma plasticity. Cell Rep. 2025 Apr 22;44(4):115474. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2025.115474. Epub 2025 Mar 25. PMID: 40138313.