15th Annual Celebration of Research Poster Award Winners
Once again, the College of Medicine Office of Research awarded Outstanding Poster Awards.
These awards recognize the most outstanding posters with categories to recognize individuals at various career stages and in several major areas of focus within the college. Check out the winners below:
OUTSTANDING POSTER AWARD IN BASIC AND TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES WINNER (undergraduate)
Colton Kelly
Biochemistry Student
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Combination Proinsulin II-GAD mRNA Lipid Particle Aggregates Delay Diabetes in NOD Mice
OUTSTANDING POSTER AWARD IN CLINICAL SCIENCES WINNER (undergraduate)
Katelyn Disler
Biochemistry Student
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Association between Oral Health and Metabolic Syndrome in Cancer Survivors: Findings from the UK Biobank
NEW OPPORTUNITY AWARD FOR RESEARCH RELATED TO COMMUNITY HEALTH WINNER (undergraduate)
Kassandra Garcia
Biology and History Student
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Impact of COVID-19 Exposure During Pregnancy on the Incidence of Postpartum Hypertensive Disorders
NEW OPPORTUNITY AWARD FOR RESEARCH RELATED TO COMMUNITY HEALTH WINNER (undergraduate)
Nofel Iftikhar
Biology Student
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Hispanic Patients with IBD who Underwent Bowel Resection are Less Likely to Receive All-Cause Opioid and Non-Opioid Agents used in Multimodal Pain Management
OUTSTANDING POSTER AWARD IN BASIC AND TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES WINNER (predoctoral)
Elena Mariel Encinas
Medical Student
Department of Medicine
Combating Saltwater-Resilient Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Isolation of a Novel Marine Bacteriophage
OUTSTANDING POSTER AWARD IN CLINICAL SCIENCES WINNER (Predoctoral)
Ethan Missigman
Medical Student
Department of Medicine
Critical Illness Profiling in Preterm Neonates with Late-Onset Escherichia coli bacteremia
OUTSTANDING POSTER AWARD IN DATA SCIENCES OR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WINNER (Predoctoral)
Sasank Desaraju
M.D./Ph.D. Student
Department of Medicine
Using Large Language Models for Chart Review Research Project
OUTSTANDING POSTER AWARD IN DATA SCIENCES OR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WINNER (Predoctoral)
Julia Bruner
M.D./Ph.D. Student
Department of Medicine
A Novel Mechanistic Mathematical Model of Liver Transplant Dynamics
NEW OPPORTUNITY AWARD FOR RESEARCH RELATED TO COMMUNITY HEALTH WINNER (predoctoral)
Shruti Kolli
Medical Student
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Subjective Social Status as a Predictor of Breastfeeding Behavior
NEW OPPORTUNITY AWARD FOR RESEARCH RELATED TO COMMUNITY HEALTH WINNER (predoctoral)
Ankita Katukota
Medical Student
Department of Medicine
Pilot Data from the First Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Vaginal Microbiota Transplantation Trial to Treat Recurrent Bacterial Vaginosis
OUTSTANDING POSTER AWARD IN BASIC AND TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES WINNER (Postdoctoral)
Michael Fassler, M.D.
General Surgery Resident
Department of Surgery
The Effect of PCSK9 Inhibition on Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Development in Mice and Humans
OUTSTANDING POSTER AWARD IN CLINICAL SCIENCES WINNER (postdoctoral)
Esra Adiyeke, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Associate
Department of Medicine
A Multistate Analysis of Acute Kidney Injury: Recovery and Persistence Among Hospitalized Patients
OUTSTANDING POSTER AWARD IN DATA SCIENCES OR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WINNER (Postdoctoral)
Skylar Grey, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Associate
Department of Medicine
Noninvasive, Quantitative Predictors of Liver Disease Associated with Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency
NEW OPPORTUNITY AWARD FOR RESEARCH RELATED TO COMMUNITY HEALTH WINNER (postdoctoral)
Rola Zeidan, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics
Iron levels in Postmenopausal Women -Insights from the All of Us Cohort
OUTSTANDING POSTER AWARD IN BASIC AND TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES WINNER (Early stage investigators)
Leighton Elliott, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
Murine Metastatic Embryonal Rhabdomyosarcoma Survival Benefit and Immune Response with RNA-LPA Vaccine
OUTSTANDING POSTER AWARD IN CLINICAL SCIENCES WINNER (Early stage investigators)
Clayton Swanson, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Department of NeurologyH
Home-delivered Prehabilitation for Mobility Preservation in Older Adults: A Pilot Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation and Motor Imagery Intervention
NEW OPPORTUNITY AWARD FOR RESEARCH RELATED TO COMMUNITY HEALTH WINNER (Early stage investigators)
Kayla Lucas
Research Assistant
Department of Surgery
Lessons from 18 Years of Charitable Pediatric Heart Surgery Missions in Jamaica: Partnership, Teamwork, and Sustainability
