Home Department: Human Biology
Supported by: Bio-X
Mentor: Carolyn Lee, Dermatology

Kamina is exploring the clinical and histological characteristics of Squamous Cell Carcinoma, the second most common cancer worldwide, that are most predictive of poor survival outcomes. Patients with metastasized tumors will be sequenced in the hopes of finding mutations that better predict clinical outcomes. Candidate mutations will then be further studied for impacts on cell growth, migration, and tumorigenesis.

Poster presented at the Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Symposium on August 24, 2017:

Understanding the Role of the Gene C2orf54 in the Epidermal Differentiation Process

Kamina Wilkerson¹, Angela Peralta¹, Dane Sessions¹, Carolyn Lee¹
[Department of Dermatology¹, Stanford University]