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
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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96-well seeding
March 25, 2024
Hello all you wonderful people! I hope you had a great week – I certainly did! This week is more of a continuation of the previous week, so I’m hoping you will be just as intrigued as last week! Before we go into that, I just wanted to show you guys some pictures of […]
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Cell culturing!
March 17, 2024
Hi y’all! Thanks for joining me again! This week was definitely a lot more interesting than the last two weeks, so I’m hoping this blog will be a lot more intriguing! This week was my first week actually doing lab work – the last two weeks were mostly remote and full of researching papers and […]
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