The Department of Medicine is pleased to announce the winners of the 2023 Janet D. Rowley Research Day poster competition. Over 60 posters were reviewed and scored by 3 judges each, comprised of DOM section chiefs, vice chairs & Research Day Committee members, to identify the top submission in each category: basic science research, translational research, clinical research and health service/medical education/social science research. Please join me in congratulating the following awardees:
Faculty Best Poster Winners:
- Samantha Gunning (Nephrology): Clinical Research – “Impact of Fluid Overload on Patients Receiving Continuous Dialysis for Acute Kidney Injury”
- Evgeny Izumchenko (H/O): Translational Research – “A nanoengineered topical transmucosal cisplatin delivery system induces anti-tumor response in animal models and patients with oral cancer”
- Matthew Ettleson (Endocrinology): Health Services Research – “Trends in Thyroid Hormone Prescribing in the US: 2010 – 2020”
Trainee Best Poster Winners:
- Wenhe Lin (Genetic Medicine): Basic Research – “Tissue-specific dynamic eQTLs in response to a high cholesterol, high fat diet in baboons”
- Kirk Cahill(H/O): Clinical Research – “Prospective Multicenter Phase I/II Trial of Lenalidomide and Dose-Adjusted EPOCH-R in MYC-associated B-cell Lymphomas”
- Matthew Odenwald(GI): Translational Research – “Lactulose-mediated Bifidobacteria expansion excludes antibiotic-resistant pathogens and is associated with improved outcomes in patients with liver disease”
- Zhiqiu Ye (Geriatrics/PM): Health Services Research – “Opioid and Substance Use Disorder Services in Nursing Homes: Survey Development through Delphi”
DOM Affiliated Staff Best Poster Winners:
- Jui Desai (Endocrinology): Clinical Research – “Comparing Grit, Anxiety, and Social Responsiveness in KCNJ11-related Neonatal Diabetes (KCNJ11-NDM) and their Sibling Controls”
- Kiranj Chaudagar (H/O): Translational Research – “BET inhibition sensitizes immunologically-cold Rb-deficient prostate cancer to immune checkpoint blockade via DNA damage-induced STING/NF-kB/type I IFN signaling”
- Jeffrey Graupner (Geriatrics/PM): Health Services Research – “Training Clinic Providers on Advance Care Planning Improves Provider Self-Efficacy”
Honorable Mention:
Basic Research:
- Charanya Muralidharan (Endocrinology) – “Blocking the Maladaptive Integrated Stress Response Increases Immunosuppressive PD-L1 in Pancreatic ß-cells and Delays Autoimmune Diabetes”
- Yanhong Cui (Dermatology) – “ALKBH4 Stabilization Is Required for Arsenic-Induced 6mA DNA Methylation Inhibition, Keratinocyte Malignant Transformation, and Tumorigenicity”
- Obada Shamaa (P/CC) – “Glutamine Enhances Influenza A Virus Replication in Tissue-Resident Alveolar Macrophages”
- Rong Wu (H/O) – “Senolytic dietary supplement vanadyl sulfate ameliorates age-associated disorders by impairing reactive cysteine homeostasis”
- Christian Checkcinco (Endocrinology) – “The G Protein Coupled Receptor GPR31 Promotes Islet Inflammation and Diabetes”
- Andy Anderson (Endocrinology) – “Beta cells adapt to insulin resistance via posttranslational modification of the translation factor eIF5A”
- Nia Hammond (H/O) – “Evaluating the role of OXPHOS in non-small cell lung cancer”
- Emma Wilkinson (Dermatology) – “Elucidating the role of m6A mRNA methylation in arsenic-induced skin tumorigenesis”
Clinical Research:
- Cathryn Lee (P/CC) – “Non-Tobacco Exposures in Combined Pulmonary Fibrosis and Emphysema: A Case-Control Analysis”
- Gregory Roloff (H/O) – “Clinical and molecular response of acute myeloid leukemia harboring non-canonical FLT3 N676K driver mutations to contemporary FLT3 inhibitors”
- Alexandra Rojek (H/O) – “Optimization of Metabolic Tumor Volume as a Prognostic Marker in CAR T-cell Therapy for Aggressive Large B-cell NHL”
Translational Research:
- Titli Nargis (Endocrinology) – “Inhibition of 12-Lipoxygenase in a Humanized Mouse Model of Type 1 Diabetes Delays Progression of Hyperglycemia”
- Margarite Matossian (H/O) – “Glucocorticoid receptor expression in chemotherapy naïve triple-negative breast cancer is positively associated with FOXP3+ and BATF3+ cell infiltration”
Health Services Research:
- Venkatesan Krishnamoorthi (Hospital Medicine) – “Primary Care – Behavioral Health Integration for medically complex patients was associated with increased primary care visits among those with previously low engagement in primary care”
- Lauren Gleason (Geriatrics/PM) – “Delirium Screening in Older Adults Using the 4AT”