Congratulations to the 2021 Janet Rowley Research Day Best Poster Winners:
Faculty:
- Basic Research: Xue Gao, PhD (Hem/Onc): “Selective signaling importance of “functionless” lyso-PAF, an inactive form of platelet activating factor, in cancer with mutant Nras”
- Clinical Research: Kimberly Stanford, MD (Emergency Medicine):“Increased Diagnoses of Acute HIV Infection in Patients Screened in the Emergency Department During the COVID-19 Pandemic”
- Health Services Research: Maria Pyra,PhD (IDGH) :“HIV PrEP Persistence among Black Ciswomen”
Trainees:
- Basic Research: Yanhong Cui,PhD (Dermatology): “Autophagy of the m6A mRNA Demethylase FTO is Impaired by Low Arsenic Exposure to Promote Tumorigenesis”
- Clinical Research: Alaa Kassir,MD (Emergency Medicine): “ Machine Learning to Predict Hospital Returns in COVID-19”
- Health Services Research : Xuan Han,MD (P/CC): “Geographic Variation in COVID-19 Deaths and Implications for Vaccine Allocation”
- Translational Research: Marilyn Arosemena, MD (EDM): ”Evidence of Islet B-Cell Death in Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes in Youth but not in Adults”
Honorable Mention:
Faculty:
- Rongxue Wu, PhD (Cardiology):“Bradykinin Receptor B1/ Matrix Metalloprotease 3 Pathway is A Novel Targeting in Preventing Cardiac Ischemia-Reperfusion (IR) Injury”
- Vladimir Liarski, MD (Rheumatology):“Flow Cytometry and Cell Sorting from Frozen Muscle Tissue”
- Gregory Ruhnke, MD (Hospital Medicine):“The Impact of Principal Diagnosis on Readmission Risk among Patients Hospitalized for Community-Acquired Pneumonia”
- Felicia D’Souza, MD (Hospital Medicine):”Implementation of a Proning Protocol for Non-Intubated COVID-19 Patients”
Trainees:
- Jennifer Allocco (Rheumatology):“TCR avidity determines kinetics of graft rejection”
- Jenna Guthmiller,PhD ( Rheumatology):“An egg-derived sulfated N-acetyllactosamine is an antigenic decoy of influenza virus vaccines”
- James Dolezal, MD (Hem/Onc):“Identifying thyroid neoplasms with deep learning prediction ?of BRAF-RAS gene expression signature”
- Maylyn Martinez, MD (Hospital Medicine):”Sleep and Mental Health in Healthcare Workers Redeployed for the COVID-19 Pandemic”
- Siriruk Changrob, MD ( Rheumatology):“Immunological memory to seasonal human coronaviruses are presented and persisted following SARS-CoV-2 infection”