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