2025 Research Paper Prize Competition
2025 Medical Student Research Paper Prize Recipients
Abramson Cancer Center basic science research prize – Graham Lobel
Title: Glutamine is critical for the maintenance of type 1 conventional dendritic cells in normal tissue and the tumor microenvironment
Abramson Cancer Center clinical/translational research prize – Lucy Wang
Title: Comparing Survival in Trial- Versus Routine-Care Advanced Urothelial Cancer Patients onImmune Checkpoint Blockade
AI and Informatics in Medicine – Chetan Vadali
Title: Improving the Detection of Mild Cognitive Impairment with FlowGAN: a Framework for ASL to FDG-PET Image Synthesis
Balduin Lucke Memorial Prize – Kelly Martins
Title: Prevalent and Disseminated Recombinant and Wild-Type Adeno-Associated Virus Integration in Macaques and Humans
Celso-Ramon Garcia Award for Outstanding Women’s Health Research – Alex Chen
Title: Narrating Humor and Persuasion in Biological Safety Cartoons
Celso-Ramon Garcia Award for Outstanding Women’s Health Research – Isabel Yoon
Title: Association of neighborhood deprivation with stage at diagnosis and treatment delay forbreast cancer in Philadelphia
Clinical Epidemiology Research Prize – Patrick Liu
Title: Genetic variants associated with chronic fatigue syndrome predict population-levelfatigue severity and actigraphic measurements
Creskoff Prize – Ben Kahn
Title: Hemodynamic forces prevent myxomatous valve diseasethrough KLF2/4 signaling
Creskoff Prize – Ayelet Rubenstein
Title: Immune-mediated thrombocytopenia and IL-6-mediated thrombocytosis observed in idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease
David B. P. Goodman Award – Yvonne Su
Title: A Large Language Model to Detect Negated Expressions in Radiology Reports
Emergency Medicine – Sarah Nessen
Title: Hospital security searches among patients with substance-related encounters
Gail Morrison Prize – Ana Acevedo
Title: Diversity-Focused Undergraduate Premedical Enrichment Programs: The Impact of Research Experiences
George W. Householder, III Memorial Prize – David Rekhtman
Title: The Effect of Donor Distance on Post-Transplant Mortality in the Modern Era
George W. Householder, III Memorial Prize – Jesse Pace
Title: Hemodynamic forces prevent myxomatous valve diseasethrough KLF2/4 signaling
ITMAT Prize for Clinical/Translational Research – Sally Nijim
Title: The Current State of Rare Disease Drug Repurposing: A Mixed Methods Study
John G. Clark Prize – Jessica Lam
Title: YY1-controlled regulatory connectivity and transcriptionare influenced by the cell cycle
John Pryor Award for Trauma Research – Emily Alpert
Title: Variation in Use of Neuroimaging in the Care of Infants Undergoing SubspecialtyEvaluations for Abuse: A Multicenter Study
John R. Stanley Research Prize for Dermatology – Andrew Li
Title: Validity of ICD-10 codes for identifying patients with palmoplantar pustulosis: A retrospectivecohort study
John R. Stanley Research Prize for Dermatology – Casey Lee
Title: Fate induction in CD8 CAR T cells through asymmetric cell division
Jonathan Rhoads Prize for Surgical Scholarship – Keshav Shah
Title: Risk Factors for Plate Infection, Exposure, and Removal in Mandibular Reconstruction
Leonard Davis Institute’s William L. Kissick, MD, DrPH, Health Policy Research Prize – DanaRose Negro
Title: Caregiver Perspectives on Improving Government Nutrition Benefit Programs
Marc Levine Radiology Research Award – Mattia Mah'moud,
Title: Racial Differences in Background Parenchymal Enhancement
Mary Ellis Bell Prize – Rohan Palanki
Title: In utero delivery of targeted ionizable lipid nanoparticles facilitates in vivo geneediting of hematopoietic stem cells
Mary Ellis Bell Prize – Karen Xu
Title: Microinterfaces in biopolymer-based bicontinuous hydrogels guide rapid 3D cell migration
Neurosurgery Research Prize – Claudia Hejazi-Garcia
Title: The Social Deprivation Index and Lumbar Spine Surgery Outcomes
Neurosurgery Research Prize – Yusha Sun
Title: Brain-wide neuronal circuit connectome of human glioblastoma
O. H. Perry Pepper Prize – Danielle Brown
Title: Post-discharge Mental Healthcare and Emergency General Surgery Readmission for Patients with Serious Mental Illness
O. H. Perry Pepper Prize – Fola Sofela
Title: Effects of Nf1 on sleep behavior are mediated through starvation caused by deficits in SARM1dependent NAD+ metabolism
Orthopaedic Research Prize – Harmon Khela
Title: The Impact of Mental Health Diagnoses on Postoperative Outcomes and Secondary Treatment Utilization Following Surgery for Adhesive Capsulitis: A Retrospective Large Database Analysis
Pediatric Research Prize – Ayan Mandal
Title: Normative trajectories of extra-axial cerebrospinal fluid during childhood and adolescence definedin a clinically-acquired MRI dataset
Pulmonary Research Prize – Yohan Kim
Title: Demographics and Socioeconomic Determinants of Health Predict Continued Participation in a CT Lung Cancer Screening Program
Renal Research Prize – Andrew Pregnall
Title: Mitochondrial OXPHOS restricts SARS-CoV-2 replication by limiting glycolytic capacity
Richard K. Root Prize for Infectious Disease Research – Yentli Soto Albrecht
Title: Mitochondrial OXPHOS restricts SARS-CoV-2 replication by limiting glycolytic capacity
Robert M. Toll Prize – Ashley Chang
Title: The Impact of Psychiatric Comorbidities on Outcomes and Quality of Life in Plastic Surgery: A Literature Review & Matched Analysis
Robert M. Toll Prize – David Dai
Title: Human Alzheimer’s Disease Reactive Astrocytes Exhibit a Loss of Homeostatic Gene
Rose Meadow Levinson Memorial Prize – Alex Nesbit
Title: Phenotypic spectrum and tumor risk in Simpson-Golabi-Behmel syndrome: Case series andcomprehensive literature review
Rose Meadow Levinson Memorial Prize – Shovik Bandyopadhay
Title: Mapping the Cellular Biogeography of Human Bone Marrow NichesUsing Single-Cell Transcriptomics and Proteomic Imaging
Roy G. Williams Award – Margo Orlen
Title: T-cell dependency of tumor regressions and complete responses withRAS(ON) multi-selective inhibition in preclinical models of PDAC
Roy G. Williams Award – Claudia Lovell
Title: Xist Deletion in B Cells Results in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Phenotypes
Stuart L. Fine Ophthalmology Medical Student Research Prize – Anusha Mamidipaka
Title: Outcomes of Trabeculectomy and Predictors of Success in Patients of African Ancestry
Stuart L. Fine Ophthalmology Medical Student Research Prize – Alan Huang
Title: Combination anti-PD-1 and anti-CTLA-4 therapy generates waves of clonal responses that include progenitor-exhausted CD8 + T cells
The Masters of Science in Health Policy Research Medical Student Award in Innovation & Implementation Research – Felicia Ho
Title: Heart donation and transplant recipient survival outcomes from deceased organ donors managed in donor care units versus hospitals
The Masters of Science in Health Policy Research Medical Student Award in Innovation & Implementation Research – Likhitha Kolla
Title: Extent and Impact of Performance Drift in a Nationally Deployed Population Health RiskAlgorithm in the Veterans Health Administration: A Retrospective Cohort Study, 2016-2021
William F. Jeffers Prize – Tim Cox
Title: Intestinal interoceptive dysfunction drives age associated cognitive decline
Prizes NOT AWARDED this year:
Edward Raffensperger Research Prize
Peterman-Arnold Award for Endocrinology
The Masters of Science in Health Policy Research Medical Student Award in Community Engagement & Health Equity Research