Department earns several awards at 2014 Research!Louisville
Dillon Pender accepts his first-place award in the NCI Cancer Education Program Norbert J. Burzynski Award Professional Student Category at the 2014 Research!Louisville event. His UofL faculty mentor was Lacey McNally, Ph.D. of the Brown Cancer Center.
Several members of the University of Louisville Department of Medicine had good showings in the recent Research!Louisville competitions, held in conjunction with the event's 19th annual showcase of health/life sciences research conducted at UofL.
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.
Here's a look at finished at or near the top in their respective categories:
Master's Basic Science Graduate Student Award
- 1st place: Zimple Kurlawala - Regulation of IGF1R by UBQLN1. Mentor: Levi Beverly, Ph.D.
- 3rd place: Diana Avila - Pathogenic Role of Phosphodiesterase 4 (PDE4) in the Development of Alcohol Induced Hepatic Steatosis. Mentor: Shirish Barve, Ph.D.
Doctoral Basic Science Graduate Student Award
- 2nd place: Adjoa Boakye - Carnosine Supplementation Promotes Revascularization in Mousemodel of Hindlimb Ischemia. Mentor: Shahid P. Baba, Ph.D.
Norton Healthcare Medical Student Award
- 1st place: Andrew Stillman - Oral Administration of EGCG, a Green Tea Polyphenol, Both Suppresses and Rescues Mice From DSS-Induced Colitis. Mentor: Gerald Dryden, M.D., MSPH, M.Sc.
- 2nd place: Michael Zhang - Inflammation-resolving Lipid Mediator Resolvin D2 Enhances Revascularization in Hind Limb Ischemia. Mentor: Matthew Spite, Ph.D.
Public Health & Information Sciences
Master's Student Award (TIE)
- Stephanie Lunn - Global Health Initiative: Implementation of a Hepatitis C Testing Program for Newly Arriving Refugees. Mentor: Ruth Carrico, Ph.D., FSHEA, RN, CIC
- Victory Osezua - Global Health Initiative: Satisfaction Among Spanish and Arabic Speaking Refugees Receiving Immunization in the University of Louisville Refugee Immunization Clinic. Mentor: Ruth Carrico, Ph.D., FSHEA, RN, CIC
NCI Cancer Education Program Norbert J. Burzynski Award Professional Student Category
- 1st place: Dillon Pender - Development of Theranostic Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles for Pancreatic Cancer. Mentor: Lacey McNally, Ph.D.
NCI Cancer Education Program Norbert J. Burzynski Award Undergraduate Student Category
- 2nd place TIE: Harold Ghooray - Inhibition of S-adenosylhomocysteine hydrolase (SAHH) Induces Fas Ligand Gene Expression and Apoptotic Death in Leukemic T Lymphocytes. Mentor: Shirish Barve, Ph.D.
- 3rd place TIE: Kendall Huddleston - Biomarker Significance of Exosomes in the Initiation and Progression of Breast Cancer. Mentors: Ramesh Gupta, Ph.D., and Radha Munagala, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow Award
- 2nd place: Fahmi Abdallah Mohammed Khalifa - An Image-based CAD System for Early Detection of Acute Renal Transplant Rejection. Mentor: Amy Dwyer, M.D., M.S.
Research Associate Award
- 2nd place: Sanjay Yaav - Regulation Of Ubiquilin 1 By miR-155 Induces Proliferation Of Lung Cancer Cells. Mentor: Levi Beverly, Ph.D.