► VIEW A PHOTO GALLERY FROM 2019 Research!Louisville

It's become a tradition for members and affiliates of the University of Louisville Department of Medicine to make an impact at the annual Research!Louisville competition at UofL, and 2019 was no exception.

Celebrating its 24th year, Research!Louisville is an annual celebration of health-related research aimed at promoting excellence and public awareness in health sciences research in Louisville while also generating additional funding for health sciences research.

A panel of university faculty judges selected the winners of this year's contest from hundreds of entries in the categories of professional/clinical students, basic science grad students, postgraduates and faculty.

"The research performed by members of the Department of Medicine is second to none," Dr. Eleanor Lederer, interim chair of the UofL Department of Medicine said. "Research!Louisville gives our Department the opportunity to showcase the important investigative work we do every day."

Here's a look at finished at or near the top in their respective categories:

Master’s Basic Science Graduate Student Award

• 2nd place: Sean Raph - "KVß2 mediates vasodilation in response to redox changes of the NADH:NAD+ ratio"
  Mentor: Matthew Nystoriak
• 1st place: Jeffrey Warner - "Soluble epoxide hydrolase inhibition: a novel therapeutic strategy in alcoholic liver disease"
  Mentor: Irina Kirpich

Doctoral Basic Science Graduate Student Award

• 3rd place: Adrienne Bashau-Sprinkle - "Mechanistic insight for increased susceptibility to cisplatin nephrotoxicity with NHERF1 loss"
  Mentor: Eleanor Lederer

Engineering Student Award

• 3rd place: Alexa Melvin - "A 3D Printed Microfluidic Manifold to Prepare Plasma from Whole Blood"
  Mentor: Nichola Garbett

Postdoctoral Fellow Award

• 2nd place: Josiah Hardesty - "Genetic ablation of Fpr2 in mice increased susceptibility to alcohol-mediated liver injury due to enhanced inflammation and impaired antimicrobial defense"
  Mentor: Irina Kirpich
• 1st place: Banrida Wahlang - "Hepatic injury caused by the environmental toxicant vinyl chloride is sex-dependent"
  Mentor: Matthew Cave

Faculty Award in Basic Science

• Winner: Ming Song - "Dietary Fructose Induces Intestinal Oxygenation Likely Contributing to Gut Microbiota Dysbiosis"

Ruth Greenberg Award for Excellence in Medical Education Research

• 3rd place: Barbara Head - "Does faculty training and development improve skills and competencies that lead to interprofessional educational programs in palliative care? he iPEX Program"

Louisville Chapter-Women in Medicine and Science

• 3rd place: Lilibeth Lanceta - "Oncolytic Virotherapy for the treatment of ER+ palbociclib-resistant breast cancer"
  Mentor: Yoannis Imbert-Fernandez
• 2nd place: Smita Ghare - "Tributyrin attenuates alcohol-induced chemokine up-regulation via epigenetic mechanisms - Relevance to hepatic inflammation and Injury in ALD"
  Mentor: Shirish Barve

Prodigy Award for High School Translational Research

• 2nd Place: Maxwell Martin - "Automation of DNA-ligand MD simulations with free energy calculations for enrichment of high affinity ligands in virtual screening"
  Mentor: John Trent

NCI Cancer Education Program Norbert J. Burzynski Award Undergraduate Student Category

• 1st place: Grace Lian - "Investigating molecules that confer sensitivity to AS1411 in lung adenocarcinoma cells"
  Mentor: Paula Bates