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
Preparations for Senior Project
May 18, 2024
Hey guys! Glad you’re back here again! This week was not too different from the previous week. I finished making my presentation, finalized all the graphs, and also *GASP* animated my slides! I went over my presentations with my advisors, made some adjustments and new graphics, and just kept practicing over and revising my […]
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Some data, some graphs
May 5, 2024
Hey guys! Glad you could join me again! This week was again pretty similar to the last couple of weeks. I finished taking the data for the combination trial this week, and I started plotting and analyzing the data. Based on the graphs (and you can see this from last week too), the […]
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Combination Treatment Trial
April 29, 2024
Hey guys! Welcome back to the next edition of my blog! This week was also quite similar to last week, so there isn’t too much information this week. This week, I ran a combination treatment trial once again, which started off kind of chaotically. When I went to count and collect my cells to […]
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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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