Building Minority Research Capacity
Pilot Research Projects

Five pilot research projects are providing scientists and students at NMSU and FHCRC with new research experiences that will benefit both institutions and the populations that they serve.

Please click on the links below for additional information.

Research Project One (closed):
Defining Biochemical Principles in the Encapsidation Pathways of Human Viral Pathogens

Research Project Two:
Anticancer Activity of Native Plants of the Southwest

Research Project Three:
Molecular Analysis of Myogenic Regulatory Genes During De-Differentiation and Re-Differentiation of the Regenerating Tail of Adult Vertebrate Teleosts

Research Project Four:
Metabolic Responses to Hypoxia

Research Project Five:
Enhancing Colorectal Screening for Minorities

Research Project Six:
Identification of Aurora-like and Polo-like Kinase Substrates

Research Project Seven:
Regulation of PTB Domain Function by Phosphorylation

Research Project Eight:
Courses to Enhance the Undergraduate Cancer Curriculum at NMSU

Research Project Nine:
Genetic Analysis of Egfr Signaling and Cell Adhesion

Principal Investigators:

Beti Thompson, Ph.D.
Member, Public Health Sciences Division
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Mary O’Connell, Ph.D.
Professor, Agronomy and Horticulture
New Mexico State University, Las Cruces

If you have any questions, please contact Jennifer Hymer, Project Coordinator, at jhymer@fhcrc.org or 206.667.7480.