Dr. Gary was a graduate scholar in the NIH Comparative Biomedical Scientist Training Program in partnership with Michigan State University and the National Cancer Institute, 2009 - 2015.
Joy Gary received her B.S. in biology from Davidson College in North Carolina (2005) and her DVM from Colorado State University in 2009. She completed her didactic graduate studies and core diagnostic experience in veterinary anatomic pathology at Michigan State University. She continued her training in pathology and research in the Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Genetics for her dissertation work under the mentorship of Dr. Beverly Mock. She studied the role of an allelic variant of mTOR in BALB/c mice (R628C; C1977T) on the function of the protein as a kinase and in DNA damage repair. She utilized a mouse that expresses the BALB/c allele of mTOR on a BL6;129 background to explore this allelic variant. Members of her graduate committee included: Matti Kiupel, Dr. Med. Vet., Ph.D., Diplomate, The American College of Veterinary Pathologists (ACVP), Michigan State University; Beverly Mock, Ph.D, LCBG, NCI; Vilma Yuzbasiyan-Gurkan, Ph.D., Michigan State University; Jennifer Thomas, D.V.M. Ph.D., Michigan State University; and Joshua Webster, Ph.D., Diplomate, The American College of Veterinary Pathologists.
Dr. Gary presented her work, “Decreased mTOR Delays Thymic lymphoma Formation and Leads to Concurrent Down Regulation of CDK6 in Mice with Constitutively Activated Thymic AK”, at the annual meeting of the American Association of Cancer Research, Washington, D.C., April 2013.
