EXPANSE Program Cohorts

Summer 2026

Collins Enoma, shown wearing a white coat.

Collins Enoma

Medical School:
Charles R. Drew School of Medicine and Science

Project:
Engineering LIN52 Phosphomutants to Restore DREAM-Mediated Cell Cycle Arrest in Meningioma

Rachel Gerth

Rachel Gerth

Medical School:
Michigan State University College of Human Medicine

Project:
Co-occurrence of Pediatric Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension and Chiari 1 Malformation

Cameron Hawk

Cameron Hawk

Medical School:
California Northstate University

Project: 
Fluid-Based Structural Biomarkers in Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury: Diagnostic Thresholds, Prognostic Value, and Temporal Dynamics

Teya LeBlanc-Hill, shown in her white coat.

Teya LeBlanc-Hill

Medical School: 
The University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences

Project:
Regional and Global Morphologic Outcomes After Surgical Treatment of Sagittal Craniosynostosis Using STAR Scanner Analysis

Bianca Luna-Lupercio

Bianca Luna-Lupercio

Medical School: 
University of California, Riverside

Projects:
Evaluating the Long-term Functional Outcomes and Quality of Life in Corpus Collosum Agenesis; Predictors of an Academic Career Among Fellowship-Trained Pediatric Neurosurgeons

Wedam Nyaaba, PhD, shown wearing his white coat.

Wedam Nyaaba, PhD

Medical School: 
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Project: 
Spatial Distribution of Somatic Mutations and Copy Number Alterations Across Anatomic Locations in a Prospective Consecutive Meningioma Cohort

Anna Peters

Anna Peters

Medical School: 
John A. Burns School of Medicine at University of Hawaii

Project: 
Investigating Glioma-Induce Immune Cell Trafficking to the Choroid Plexus

Sophia Pruitt, shown wearing a white coat with a stethoscope over her shoulders.

Sophia Pruitt

Medical School: 
San Juan Bautista School of Medicine

Project: 
Cerebellar Histopathological Changes Following Traumatic Brain Injury in Mice

Srikar N. Sattiraju

Srikar Sattiraju

Medical School: 
Creighton University

Project: 
Invasive Properties of Cancer Associated Fibroblasts

Elaine Wijaya

Elaine Wijaya

Medical School: 
University of California, Riverside

Project: 
Molecular subtype-dependent remodeling of axonal conduction pathways in gliomas