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Yvonne Rosales Cornejo, DVM, PhD, DACLAM

Yvonne Rosales Cornejo, DVM, PhD, DACLAM

Clinical Assistant Professor, Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine (ULAM)

Faculty Veterinarian, ULAM Faculty

Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine (ULAM)

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Profile

Dr. Cornejo joined the Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine (ULAM) as a Faculty Veterinarian in October 2024. Prior to her time at the University of Michigan, Dr. Cornejo served as a Clinical Veterinarian with Alta Sciences Preclinical in Sacramento, CA, where she primarily worked with NHPs.

Dr. Cornejo received her veterinary degree from Western University of Health Sciences and her undergraduate degree in Animal Sciences from California Polytechnic State University–Pomona. She completed her residency and PhD training at the City of Hope, one of the largest cancer research and treatment organizations in the United States, from 2015 to 2020.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Dr. Cornejo’s research interest is focused on the novel delivery of drug therapies for ovarian cancer.

Professional Background

  • Certification – American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine Diplomate, 2024
  • Residency/PhD, The City of Hope, 2020
  • DVM, Western University of Health Science, 2015
  • BS (Animal Science/Pre-Vet), California Polytechnic State University – Pomona, 2010

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  1. Kang Y, Flores L, Ngai HW, Cornejo YR, Haber T, McDonald M, Moreira DF, Gonzaga JM, Abidi W, Zhang Y, Hammad M, Kortylewski M, Aboody KS, Berlin JM., “Large, Anionic Liposomes Enable Targeted Intraperitoneal Delivery of a TLR 7/8 Agonist to Repolarize Ovarian Tumors’ Microenvironment”. Bioconjugate Chemistry, Vol 32, No 8, 2021, pp. 1581-1592. doi.org/10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.1c00139.
  2. Bianchi L, Mooney R, Cornejo YR, Schena E, Berlin JM, Aboody KS, Saccomandi P., “Thermal Analysis of Laser Irradiation-Gold Nanorod Combination at 808nm, 940nm, 975nm and 1064nm Wavelengths in Breast Cancer Model”. International Journal of Hyperthermia, Vol 38, Issue 1, 2021. doi.org/10.1080/02656736.2021.1956601.
  3. Cornejo Y, Li M, Dellinger TH, Mooney R, Rahman MM, McFadden G, Aboody KS, and Hammad M., “NSCs are Permissive to Oncolytic Myxoma Virus and Provide a Delivery Method for Targeted Ovarian Cancer Therapy”. Oncotarget, Vol 11, No 51, 2020, pp. 4693-4698. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.27845.
  4. Bianchi L, Mooney R, Cornejo YR, Hyde C, Schena E, Berlin JM, Aboody KS, Saccomandi P., “Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors for Thermometry During Gold Nanorods-Mediated Photothermal Therapy in Tumor Model”. IEEE Sensors. 2020.
  5. Hammad M, Cornejo Y, Flores L, Hyde C, Ngai HW, Li M, Dellinger TH, Lu J, Chen NG, Mooney R, Aboody KS, Fong Y., “Novel Chimeric Poxvirus CF17 Improves Survival in a Murine Model of Intraperitoneal Ovarian Cancer Metastasis”. Molecular Therapy Oncolytics, Vol 19, No 16, 2020, pp. 278-282. doi.org/10.1016/j.omto.2020.10.002.
  6. Haber T, Cornejo YR, Aramburo S, Flores L, Cao P, Liu A, Mooney R, Gilchrist M, Tirughana R, Nwokafor U, Abidi W, Han E, Dellinger T, Wakabayashi MT, Aboody KS, Berlin JM., “Specific targeting of ovarian tumor-associated macrophages by large, anionic nanoparticles”. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. (2020), doi: 10.1073/pnas.1917424117.
  7. Hammad M, Cornejo YR, Batalla-Covello J, Abdul Majid A, Burke C, Liu Z, Yuan Y-C, Li M, Dellinger TH, Lu J, Chen NG, Fong Y, Aboody KS, Mooney R, “Neural Stem Cells Improve the Delivery of Oncolytic Chimeric Orthopoxvirus in a Metastatic Ovarian Cancer Model”, Molecular Therapy: Oncolytics (2020), doi.org/10.1016/j.omto.2020.07.002.
  8. Zhang, Y., Liu, A.T., Cornejo, Y.R., Van Haute, D., Berlin, J.M., “A Systematic Comparison Of In Vitro Cell Uptake/In Vivo Biodistribution For Three Classes of Gold Nanoparticles with saturated PEG coatings,” PLoS One, Vol 15, No. 7, 2020.
  9. Tiet, P., Li, J., Abidi, W., Mooney, R., Flores, L., Aramburo, S., Batalla-Covello, J., Gonzaga, J., Tsaturyan, L., Kang, Y., Cornejo, Y., R., Dellinger, T., Han, E., Aboody, K.S., Berlin, J.M., “Silica Coated Paclitaxel Nanocrystals Enable Neural Stem Cell Loading For Treatment of Ovarian Cancer,” Bioconjugate Chemistry, vol. 30, no. 5, 2019, pp. 1415-1424.
  10. Tu, J., Holguin, L., and Cornejo, Y.R., “‘Who is on my side?’ When the investigator feels that the IACUC is working against them,” Lab Animal, vol 47, no. 8, 2018, pp. 198.
  11. Cornejo, Y.R., Holguin, L., and Tu, J., “Considering animal welfare with scientific justification in mind,” Lab Animal, vol 47, no. 6, 2018, pp. 140.

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