Current Fellows
Pursuing Their Career Goals With Our Support
The UIC Cancer Education and Career Development Program supports up to six postdoctoral and predoctoral fellows each year. We accept applicants from a wide spectrum of academic backgrounds — from the biological and medical sciences, to sociology, statistics, economics, math, and more. We particularly welcome fellows from ethnic and racial backgrounds that are underrepresented in cancer research.
Postdoctoral Fellows Heading link
Li-Ting Huang, PhD, DPH, RN
Research Interests: Symptom management among patients with advanced cancer and their family caregivers using a resilience-building approach.
Email: liting@uic.edu
Andrew McLeod, PhD
Research Interests: Discovering diets and dietary components that may prevent or decrease cancer-related cognitive impairment and examining the potential mechanisms that connect diet with cancer-related cognitive impairment.
Email: amcleo2@uic.edu
Natalicio Serrano, PhD
Research Interests: Promoting equitable and sustainable strategies for cancer prevention by contributing evidence on the influence of the neighborhood and policy environments on physical activity and other cancer-related outcomes.
Email: serranon@uic.edu
Predoctoral Fellows Heading link
Brandon Lukas
Department of Bioengineering, College of Engineering
Dissertations Focus: Cutaneous melanoma detection using non-invasive, safe optical coherence tomography with the help of image analysis and machine learning.
Email: blukas4@uic.edu
Mirielle C. Nauman, BS
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy
Dissertation Focus: Defining the role of xanthones, natural compounds isolated from the purple mangosteen fruit, to target prostate cancer by promoting androgen receptor degradation.
Email: mnauma6@uic.edu
Nyahne Bergeron, MPH
Community Health Sciences Division, School of Public Health
Dissertation Focus: Understanding and leveraging health information sharing among the social networks of African American women for health promotion and cancer risk reduction.
Email: nberge1@uic.edu