Akshaya A. 2024 | BASIS Independent Silicon Valley
- Project Title: A Combination Therapy for Non-small Cell Lung Cancer
- BASIS Independent Advisor: Karen Allendoerfer
- Onsite Mentor: Dr. John Santiago
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States, with a mortality rate of 51.6 per 100,000 for men and 34.4 per 100,000 for women. Out of these, about 85% of cases are non-small cell lung cancer, a more common and less aggressive type. Yet, treatments for lung cancer are not extremely effective in combating the lung cancer cells. I will be focusing on immunotherapy, a type of treatment used for cancers that essentially activates T-cells to attack cancer cells. The goal of this project is to improve the efficiency of the immunotherapeutic drug, ipilimumab, against lung cancer, by combining it with an anti-cancer vaccine.
My Posts
New Week, New Trials
April 23, 2024
Hey! Welcome back to the next edition of my blog! This week was quite similar to last week, so there isn’t too much information this week. This is a graph of the curcumin data that I got from last week – as you can see, the 48 h data set has the best curve. […]
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Curcumin and Quercetin treatment
April 15, 2024
Hi y’all! I hope you guys all had a good break, and I’m glad you are here with me today! It was a lot of fun, but kind of stressful too, but it was definitely a new experience for me. This week, I ran the experiments for curcumin and quercetin individually (meaning not the […]
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Making stock solutions!
April 7, 2024
Hey guys! Welcome back to my blog! I hope you had a great spring break! Before we go into what I did this week, I promised to go over analyzing the data from last week, so here goes. Essentially, the proliferation assay gives us readings from each well of the mean fluorescent intensity – […]
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Serial Dilutions
April 2, 2024
Hey guys! Glad you could join me again! This week was a little all over the place, but I’m happy to know you guys are back here again! This week, I learned how to do serial dilutions, which are incredibly important in later parts of the experiment regarding treatment. Serial dilutions, as you might […]
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