Mentor: Weizhou Zhang, MD
 

Awarded MD, PhD in Cancer Biology and Medicine in Spring 2020

Thesis: 

Big Data Analytics and Cancer Biology: Lessons in Taking Science from the Processor to the Patient  

Other positions:

• 2023-24 Head of Computational Biology at Omniscope
• 2022-23 Consulting Senior Computational Biologist at Santa Ana Bio, Inc. 
• 2022-23 Postdoctoral Researcher, Barnes-Jewish Hospital
• 2020-23 Clinical Pathology Resident, Washington University in St. Louis

Awards:

• 2023 Emerging Generation Award from the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI)
• 2018 Hancher-Finkbine Award, University of Iowa
• 2017-20 NIH-NCI Fellowship F30 CA206255 "The role of paracrine WNT5A/RYK in ErbB2-driven tumorigenesis"

Selected Publications:

Pubmed

1. Borcherding N, Brestoff JR.  The power and potential of mitochondria transfer. Nature. 2023 Nov; 623(7986): 283-291.
2. Borcherding N, Kusner D, Kolb R, Xie Q, Li W, et al. Paracrine WNT5A Signaling Inhibits Expansion of Tumor-Initiating Cells. Cancer Res. 2015 May 15;75(10):1972-82. 
3. Borcherding N, Bormann N, Kusner D, Kolb R, Zhang W. Transcriptome analysis of basal and luminal tumor-initiating cells in ErbB2-driven breast cancer. Genom Data. 2015 Jun 1;4:119-122. 
4. Borcherding N, Voigt AP, Liu V, Link BK, Zhang W, Jabbari A. Single-Cell Profiling of Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma Reveals Underlying Heterogeneity Associated with Disease Progression. 
   Clin Cancer Res. 2019 May 15; 25(10): 2996-3005.