Combined Degree and Physician Scholar Programs
WINNERS OF RESEARCH DAY 2007 AWARDS
Short term - Clinical
Jonathan Dunkman- 1st place
Transfusion of fresh frozen plasma in critically ill surgical patients is associated with an increased risk of infection
Mentor: Dr. Babak Sarani
Adam Robertson- 2nd place
Medication refill cards predict virologic failure in Botswana
Mentor: Dr. Robert Gross
Short term - Basic Science
Jeffrey Cohen- 1st place
Cripto stimulates myocardial proliferation and enhances ventricular function in ischemic cardiomyopathy
Mentor: Dr. Y. Joseph Woo
André Ilbawi - 2nd place
Morphologic study of ascending aorta and aortic arch in Hypoplastic Left Hearts: surgical implications
Mentor: Dr. Robert Anderson
Year out - Clinical
Sean Heffron – 1st place
Degree of acute phase response predicts the extent of HDL remodeling in human inflammation
Mentor: Dr. Muredach Reilly
Esther Vorovich – 2nd place
MMP-9 compared with BNP as a biomarker of ventricular remodeling in systolic heart failure
Mentor: Dr.
Thomas Cappola
Year out - Basic Science
Ryan Spivak- 1st place
In utero gene delivery of adenovirus encoded TGF-β3 restores embryologic palatal fusion and rescues cleft palate in a TGF-β3 knockout mouse
Mentor: Dr.
Richard Kirschner
Vivian Lee- 2nd place
Transuterine Nrl gene delivery to Nrl-/- photoreceptors induces rod specific protein expression
Mentor: Dr.
Jean Bennett
Scholarly Pursuit - Clinical
Rebecca King- 1st place
Routine CSF enterovirus PCR testing reduces hospitalization and antibiotic use in infants ≤90 days of age
Mentor: Dr. Samir Shah
Andrea Goldberg- 2nd place
Second trimester loss and subsequent pregnancy outcomes: what is the real risk?
Mentor: Dr.
Michal Elovitz
Scholarly Pursuit - Basic Science
William Hiesinger
- 1st place
Targeted endothelial progenitor cell therapy increases myocardial oxygen tissue pressure characterized in vivo using oxygen-dependent quenching of phosphorescence
Mentor: Dr.
Y. Joseph Woo
Jennifer Nguyen
- 2nd place
The role of Wnt signaling on melanocyte migration from the hair follicle bulge to the epidermis
Mentor: Dr.
George Cotsarelis
MD-PhD Rotation
Abby Olsen
- 1st place
Cellular fibronectin enhances hepatic stellate cell myofibroblastic differentiation and migration in vitro
Mentor: Dr.
Rebecca G. Wells
Marta White
- 2nd place
DNA damage in proliferating lymphocytes leads to loss of Cyclin D3 protein
Mentor: Dr.
Craig Bassing
MD-PhD Thesis
Jennifer Orthmann Murphy
- 1st place
The role of connexin47 in gap junction coupling between astrocytes and oligodendrocytes
Mentor: Dr.
Steve Scherer
Vikram Palanivel
- 2nd place
Asymmetric T lymphocyte division initiating the adaptive immune response
Mentor: Dr.
Steven Reiner
Daria Babushok
- 2nd place
A novel testis ubiquitin receptor, S5a-like, arose by exon-shuffling in hominoids
Mentor: Dr.
Haig H Kazazian, Jr.