2021 Research Paper Prize Competition

Recipients of the 2021 "Medical Student Research Paper Prizes"

Abramson Cancer Center basic science research prize – Alberto Guerra
Title: A humanized anti-anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) antibody drug conjugate demonstrates surface expression-dependent cytotoxicity in neuroblastoma

Abramson Cancer Center clinical/translational research prize – Cody Cotner
Title: Surveillance of postchemotherapy subcentimeter residual retroperitoneal mass in metastatic nonseminomatous germ cell tumor: Does how you measure matter?

Balduin Lucke Memorial Prize – Tong Wang
Title: Discovery of an Unnatural DNA Modification Derived from a Natural Secondary Metabolite

Celso-Ramon Garcia Award for Outstanding Women’s Health Research – Daniel Hoffman
Title: Immediate Breast Reconstruction for Inflammatory Breast Cancer: Trends in Use and Clinical Outcomes, 2004-2016

Celso-Ramon Garcia Award for Outstanding Women’s Health Research – Mitchell Johnson
Title: Publishing Research in Orthopaedic Surgery: How Thick is the Glass Ceiling?

Clinical Epidemiology Research Prize – Ankita Reddy
Title: Validating and modeling the impact of high-frequency rapid antigen screening on COVID-19 spread and outcomes

Creskoff Prize – Tristan Lim
Title: Germline POT1 Variants Can Predispose to a Variety of Myeloid and Lymphoid Neoplasms

David B. P. Goodman Award – Eric Winter
Title: Association of Police Transport with Survival Among Patients with Penetrating Trauma in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Edward Raffensperger Research Prize – Brian Chu
Title: Association of antibiotic exposure with survival and toxicity in patients with melanoma receiving immunotherapy

Edward Raffensperger Research Prize – Viren Patel
Title: Prospective Assessment of the Abdominal Hernia-Q (AHQ)—Patient Burden, Reliability, and Longitudinal Assessment of Quality of Life in Hernia Repair

Emergency Medicine – Whitney Orji
Title: Firearm violence, access to care and gentrification: a moving target for American trauma systems

Gail Morrison Prize – Adjoa Mante
Title: Misrepresenting Race — The Role of Medical Schools in Propagating Physician Bias

Gail Morrison Prize – Christina Amutah
Title: Misrepresenting Race — The Role of Medical Schools in Propagating Physician Bias

Gail Morrison Prize – Michelle Munyikwa
Title: Misrepresenting Race — The Role of Medical Schools in Propagating Physician Bias

Gail Morrison Prize – Sanjna Surya
Title: Misrepresenting Race — The Role of Medical Schools in Propagating Physician Bias

George W. Householder, III Memorial Prize – Anjali Bhatla
Title: Stroke, Timing of Atrial Fibrillation Diagnosis, and Risk of Death

George W. Householder, III Memorial Prize – Danielle Murashige
Title: Comprehensive quantification of fuel use by the failing and nonfailing human heart

ITMAT Prize for Clinical/Translational Research – Sushila Toulmin
Title: Type II alveolar cells with constitutive expression of MHCII and limited antigen presentation capacity contribute to improved respiratory viral disease outcomes

John G. Clark Prize – Eric Sanford
Title: Gene regulation gravitates toward either addition or multiplication when combining the effects of two signals

John Pryor Award for Trauma Research – Cindy Zhao
Title: Increasing Firearm Injury During the Intense Period of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Hidden Urban Burden

John Pryor Award for Trauma Research – Hatem Abdallah
Title: Increasing Firearm Injury During the Intense Period of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Hidden Urban Burden

John R. Stanley Research Prize for Dermatology – Ronald Berna
Title: Using a machine learning approach to identify rare filaggrin variants associated with remission of atopic dermatitis

John R. Stanley Research Prize for Dermatology – Emily Keyes
Title: Defining flares in cutaneous lupus erythematosus using the cutaneous lupus erythematosus disease area and severity index (CLASI)

Jonathan Rhoads Prize for Surgical Scholarship – Brandon White
Title: In utero split AAV9 adenine base editing corrects the multi-organ pathology in a lethal lysosomal storage disease.

Jonathan Rhoads Prize for Surgical Scholarship – Robin H. Wang
Title: Spillover Effects of Mandatory Hip and Knee Replacement Surgery Bundles in Medicare

Leonard Davis Institute’s William L. Kissick, MD, DrPH, Health Policy Research Prize – Saiesh Kalva
Title: Value-based Care Transformation: How Penn Medicine Reimagined Breast Reconstruction, Shifting the Balance of Post-op Care from Clinic to Home

Marc Levine Radiology Research Award – Feyisope Eweje
Title: Deep Learning for Classification of Bone Lesions on Routine MRI

Mary Ellis Bell Prize – Ali Farooqi
Title: Evaluating Whole Genome Expression Differences in Idiopathic and Diabetic Adhesive Capsulitis

Mary Ellis Bell Prize – Modupe Adetunji
Title: Oral iron chelator deferiprone ameliorates glaucoma neurodegeneration in DBA/2J mice

Neurosurgery Research Prize – China Byrns
Title: Glial AP1 promotes early TBI recovery but chronically drives tauopathy

Neurosurgery Research Prize – Wanming Teng
Title: Second Window ICG Predicts Gross Total Resection and Progression-Free Survival During Brain Metastasis Surgery

O. H. Perry Pepper Prize – Daniel Stokes
Title: Online Reviews of Mental Health Treatment Facilities: Narrative themes associated with positive and negative ratings

O. H. Perry Pepper Prize – Nabil Darwich
Title: Autosomal dominant VCP hypomorph mutation impairs disaggregation of PHF-tau

Orthopaedic Research Prize – Kobina Mensah-Brown
Title: Development of an Intraoperative Pipeline for Holographic Mixed Reality Visualization During Spinal Fusion Surgery

Orthopaedic Research Prize – Michelle Guo
Title: Sarcopenia and preserved bone mineral density in pediatric survivors of high-risk neuroblastoma with growth failure

Pediatric Research Prize – Brian Huang
Title: Aiding Clinical Assessment of Neonatal Sepsis Using Hematological Analyzer Data with Machine Learning Techniques

Pediatric Research Prize – Kiara Taquechel
Title: Pediatric Asthma Health Care Utilization, Viral Testing, and Air Pollution Changes During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Pulmonary Research Prize – Christina Bax
Title: Visualizing speech-generated oral fluid droplets via laser light scattering

Renal Research Prize – Amanda Jones
Title: A Longitudinal Cohort Study of the Social Impact of Surgery for Nephrolithiasis

Richard K. Root Prize for Infectious Disease Research – Hoang Bui Nguyen
Title: Dichotomous Engagement of HDAC3 Activity Governs Inflammatory Responses

Robert M. Toll Prize – Angela Song
Title: Patient characteristics associated with attendance of outpatient behavioral health services following identification in primary care and referral management support

Robert M. Toll Prize – Naihua Gong
Title: The chromatin remodeler ISWI acts during Drosophila development to regulate adult sleep

Rose Meadow Levinson Memorial Prize – Aman Prasad
Title: Determinants and survival associated with post-operative radiation therapy refusal in HPV-associated oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma.

Rose Meadow Levinson Memorial Prize – Benjamin Emert
Title: Variability within rare cell states enables multiple paths towards drug resistance

Roy G. Williams Award – Anthony Angueira
Title: Defining the lineage of thermogenic perivascular adipose tissue

Roy G. Williams Award – Sohaib Hashmi
Title: Pseudo-obstruction–inducing ACTG2 R257C alters actin organization and function.

Stuart L. Fine Ophthalmology Medical Student Research Prize – Jacob Sterling
Title: NLY01 reduces retinal inflammation and neuron death secondary to ocular hypertension

Stuart L. Fine Ophthalmology Medical Student Research Prize – Kimberley Yu
Title: Systemic Conditions Associated with Severity of Dry Eye Signs and Symptoms in the Dry Eye Assessment and Management (DREAM) Study

The Masters of Science in Health Policy Research Medical Student Award
in Community Engagement & Health Equity Research – Eden Engel-Rebitzer
Title: Patient preference and risk assessment in opioid prescribing disparities: a secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial

The Masters of Science in Health Policy Research Medical Student Award
in Innovation & Implementation Research – Megan Shannon
Title: Neighborhood Violent Crime and Perceived Stress in Pregnancy

William F. Jeffers Prize – David Kersen
Title: Cortical feedback and gating in odor discrimination and generalization