Combined Degree and Physician Scholar Programs
WINNERS OF RESEARCH DAY 2006 AWARDS
Short term - Clinical
Catherine Parker - 1st place
Patient adherence to a prescribed warfarin regimen: results from the IN-RANGE study
Mentor: Dr. Stephen Kimmel
Jennifer Matro - 2nd place
Risk factors for mediastinitis following cardiothoracic surgery in children
Mentor: Dr. Samir Shah
Short term - Basic Science
Vivian Hsu - 1st place
Novel therapy of GM-CSF and SDF-1 upregulates endothelial progenitor cell proliferation for vasculogenesis in ischemic cardiomyopathy
Mentor: Dr. Y. Joseph Woo
Deepika Nemani - 2nd place
Role of VE-cadherin in acid-enhanced anti-tumor response to melphalan isolated limb perfusion
Mentor: Dr. Douglas Fraker
Year out - Clinical
Kristofer Jones – 1st place
Detection of impending neurologic injury during surgery for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: A comparison of transcranial motor and somatosensory evoked potential monitoring in 1121 consecutive cases
Mentor: Dr. John M. Flynn
Jessica Kagen – 2nd place
Risk adjustment of surgical site infections following median sternotomy in children
Mentor: Dr. Samir Shah
Jennifer Wilkes – 2nd place
Use of oseltamivir in children hospitalized with influenza
Co-mentors: Dr. Susan Coffin and Dr. Theoklis Zaoutis
Year out - Basic Science
Jeffrey Bedrosian - 1st place
Adeno-associated viral serotype 2/1 is a highly efficient vector for in utero gene transfer to hair cell precursors
Mentor: Dr. Jean Bennett
Geoffrey Geiger - 2nd place
Zebrafish as a “biosensor:” characterizing the effects of radiation and radiomodifiers on embryonic viability and development
Mentor: Dr. Gary D. Kao
Scholarly Pursuit - Clinical
Caitlin Carr - 1st place
The impact of FDG PET in the staging of breast cancer
Mentor: Dr. Emily F. Conant
Gabriel Brooks - 2nd place
Childhood cancer in families with and without germline BRCA1/2 mutations ascertained at a high-risk breast cancer clinic
Mentor: Dr. Susan M. Domchek
Scholarly Pursuit - Basic Science
Jeffrey Vinocur - 1st place
Violations of the 12/23 rule at the mouse immunoglobulin kappa locus
Mentor: Dr. Nina Luning Prak
Steven Crooks - 2nd place
Dose- and time-dependent liquid sclerosant effects on endothelial cell death
Mentor: Dr. David M. Eckmann
MD-PhD Rotation
Meredith Miller - 1st place
Mass-spectrometric identification of the enzymatic products of prostaglandin F synthase (AKR1C3): the formation of proliferative 9a,11b-prostaglandin F2
Mentor: Dr. Trevor Penning
Vikram Palanivel - 2nd place
Myosin-IIA is required for natural killer cell cytotoxicity and associates with cytolytic granules
Mentor: Dr. Jordan Orange
MD-PhD Thesis
Benjamin Schwarz - 1st place
Selective thymus settling by the multipotent progenitor population
Mentor: Dr. Avinash Bhandoola
Lawrence Bish - 1st place
Mesenchymal stem cell injection after myocardial infarction improves function
Mentor: Dr. H. Lee Sweeney
Frances High - 2nd place
Notch functions in neural crest cells to mediate remodeling of the cardiac outflow tract and formation of aortic arch vascular smooth muscle
Mentor: Dr. Jonathan Epstein
Doug Lin - 2nd place
Phosphorylation-dependent ubiquitination of cyclin D1 by the SCFFBX4-aB crystallin complex
Mentor: Dr. J. Alan Diehl
Evan Ray - 2nd place
A trapped intracellular cation modulates K+ channel recovery from slow inactivation
Mentor: Dr. Carol Deutsch
Benjamin Olenchock - 2nd place
Disruption of diacylglycerol metabolism impairs T cell anergy
Mentor: Dr. Gary A. Koretzky