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Kekoa Taparra, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Medical Fellow, Radiation Therapy
Resident in Radiation Oncology - Radiation TherapyBioAloha, my name is Kekoa and I am an Indigenous Native Hawaiian born and raised in Mililani, Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi. My life's mission is to return home to the islands and provide high-quality cancer care to the communities that raised me. I earned my PhD from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (Cellular and Molecular Medicine) and my MD from Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine (Science of Healthcare Delivery Certification), experiences that have prepared me for my current role as a resident physician and postdoctoral medical fellow in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Stanford Health Care. I am a Masters of Public Health Merit Award scholar at Hawaiʻi Pacific University. I'm proud to be a member of the inaugural cohort of the President Barack Obama Foundation Leaders USA program. I also run a lab with over 20 talented Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander (NHPI) and NHPI-ally scholars across the nation, focusing on unmasking NHPI health disparities that have been overlooked for decades.
My lab specifically focuses on Pacific Islander health disparities, overcoming Indigenous Erasure, resolving structural racism in NHPI data, and sustainable climate-resilient healthcare systems. We use perspectives from the lived experiences of our communities to help guide the most pertinent research questions. For my research, I have been awarded the inaugural 2023 ASCO Dr. Judith and Alan Kaur Endowed Young Investigator Award along with awards from ASH, ASTRO, NMF, and AACR. My work has been published in The Lancet, NEJM, JAMA, JAMA Oncology, JAMA Internal Medicine, JAMA Health Forum, JNCI, and JCO Oncology Practice, among others. I was selected as a 2022-2023 American Society of Clinical Oncology Journals Editorial Fellow and a 2023-2024 Stanford Cancer Institute Fellow.
As an advocate for Pacific Islander health equity, I strive to engage with community partners, federal agencies, and academic research institutions to educate others on the unique health concerns of our population. I've been invited to speak on NHPI health at institutions such as Harvard, MDACC Grand Rounds, UCLA, UCSF, NIH/NCI, FDA, and Papa Ola Lōkahi, among others. I warmly welcome interdisciplinary collaborations that aim to improve the health of our underserved Pacific Islander communities. -
Indu Voruganti Maddali MD, MS, FRCPC
Postdoctoral Medical Fellow, Radiation Therapy
Fellow in Radiation Oncology - Radiation TherapyCurrent Research and Scholarly InterestsCNS and Lung Malignancies
Oligometastatic disease
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Jinglong Wang
Postdoctoral Scholar, Radiation Biology
BioDr. Wang was trained at the Jacques Monod Institute and École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France under the mentorship of Dr. Terence Strick. and obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of Paris in 2019. He dissected the molecular machinery of human and bacterial NHEJ, and interrogated the mechanism of SpCas9 tolerance to non-specific substrate using single-molecule nanomanipulation tools.
Jinglong’s research in the Frock Lab focuses on DSB-related chromosome topological changes and genomic interactions. -
Mengxiong Wang
Postdoctoral Scholar, Radiation Biology
Current Research and Scholarly Interests1. To investigate the role of p53 in regulating the regression of lung adenocarcinoma and tumor microenvironment.
2. To determine synthetic lethal partner for p53 mutations in the context of lung adenocarcinoma. -
Ziwei Wang
Postdoctoral Scholar, Radiation Therapy
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy current work focuses on establishing preclinical platforms to rapidly validate the functional impact of genetic alterations in tumors using both cell and genetically engineered mouse models. We hope this system can accelerate the discovery and translation of novel cancer therapies to patients.
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Jinxi Xiang
Postdoctoral Scholar, Radiation Physics
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI develop machine leanring methods to autonomate the digital pathology.
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Xiaohan Xing
Postdoctoral Scholar, Radiation Physics
BioXiaohan Xing is a Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University. Before joining Stanford, she worked as a Postdoctoral researcher at the City University of Hong Kong. She obtained her Ph.D. degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2021 and her B.S. degree from Shandong University in 2017.
Her research interests include medical image analysis, omics data analysis, and multi-modal based disease diagnosis.
