Rebecca Price, biology graduate assistant

Rebecca received her Bachelor of Science in Biology with a concentration in Spanish from Albright College in Reading. She is currently working towards her Master of Science in Biology at Bloomsburg University.

Her research thesis focuses on the signal transduction mechanisms of aggressive forms of cutaneous melanoma. Her research will investigate the roles the EphA2 receptor and the Ras-Raf-Mek1/2-Erk1/2 signal transduction pathway have in melanoma development.Understanding how the EphA2 receptor and Erk1/2 signaling pathway regulate aggressive cutaneous melanoma will help provide new knowledge about melanoma pathogenesis and potential therapeutic interventions.

She was awarded a student research grant from The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania University Biologists (CPUB) for her thesis work. She presented a poster presentation at the Pennsylvania Academy of Science at Delaware Valley University and gave a research talk at the Health Sciences Symposium at Bloomsburg University.

She currently works in healthcare operations research as a project manager and helps manage federally funded research studies. In the past, she has worked on healthcare research studies which focused on population health, outcomes research and the epidemiology of diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, chronic hepatitis, coronary heart disease, and a veteran’s health study which studied post-traumatic stress disorders.