Nikesha Gilmore, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

• Research to understand the immunological mechanisms in cancer and the ways by which immunological factors can be exploited to identify patients at risk of increased frailty after receiving chemotherapy. • Development of interventions to target frailty in older adults with cancer after receiving adjuvant treatment for colon cancer.

- Manage and monitor two, ongoing Phase III, multisite geriatric oncology clinical trials. - Serve as key liaison between geriatric oncology study team, stakeholder groups, clinical research physicians, principal investigators, statisticians, and the University of Rochester NCI Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP) Network in support of clinical study objectives. - Identify potential clinical data issues and provide senior team members resolution ideas. - Analyze clinical data used for the preparation of grant applications, abstracts, scientific posters, and manuscripts. Facilitate and conduct data management, cleaning, and internal study audits. - Author study protocol, amendment documents, regulatory documents, data management plans, study status reports, study procedure manuals and training materials.- Provide guidance to CRAs and site staff on study procedures. Plan and execute tracking mechanisms to ensure adherence to study procedures and that study milestones are achieved in a timely manner.- Facilitate discussions with investigators pertaining to data generation essential to the development of future long term projects.- Actively work with study staff to prioritize study timelines and ensure that deadlines are met.- Supervise, train and mentor research staff and students; managed project timelines and work accuracy.

Rochester, Ny

Project Management Accomplishments - Initiated and managed collaborative projects focused on developing novel strategies for intravital imaging of tumor blood vessels.- Contributed as author and co‐author and provided critical review of external grants and scientific manuscripts before peer review.- Managed resources to ensure that projects advanced according to timelines while balancing the needs of individual research projects and personnel.- Maintained vendor relationships and worked effectively with external stakeholders to ensure that resources were contracted within budget constraints.- Maintained documents necessary for University Committee of Animal Resources (UCAR) and laboratory safety compliance and oversaw period of no compliance violations or serious citations.Research AccomplishmentsImmuno‐OncologyInvestigations centered on determining the biological roles of nonclassical class Ib genes in tumor immunity.- Performed data analysis and interpretation that were critical elements of peer-reviewed publications and grant applications. Reported key scientific findings at internal and external conferences. - Designed experiments and coordinated the logistics of tumor immunology studies conducted in the laboratory.- Managed high school, undergraduate and graduate student research and provided oversight of experimental execution.- Developed models to study tumor‐class MHC Ib complex interactions and tumor angiogenesis.Urologic Oncology- Determined how stromal‐epithelial interactions through stromal androgen receptor (AR) and its regulated genes influence prostate cancer progression by the use of tissue recombination models.- Analyzed and interpreted data that was presented at local and national research conferences and also contributed to on‐going research topics in the lab.- Awarded prostate cancer pre‐doctoral research award.

Greater Philadelphia Area

- Determined how the tumor suppressor DKC1 perturbs p27 translation control and contributes to pituitary tumorigenesis DKCM, P27 IRES transgenic mice- Designed, conducted, and analyzed data that formed the basis of peer-reviewed publication- Responsible for laboratory and rodent colony management

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Pathology/Experimental Pathology

Master Of Science (Ms), Pathology/Experimental Pathology

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Biology, General