Health Sciences Research Week events took place April 16-19 on the UI health sciences campus. In addition to nationally and internationally known researchers who presented during the week, poster sessions were held for students and postdoctoral fellows/staff.
Congratulations to participants from Internal Medicine who came away with awards!
Carver College of Medicine Graduate Student category
Mirza Khan
Internal Medicine Resident, GME3
Title: Using Behavioral Economics to Nudge” Evidence-Based Hypertension Care
Mentor: Peter Kaboli, Internal Medicine
Daniel Matasic
Molecular Physiology and Biophysics Graduate Program
Title: Mechanistic Insights on the Metabolic Regulation of Cardiac Sodium Channel Localization
Mentor: Barry London, Internal Medicine
ICTS Staff/Postdoctoral Fellow category
Weam Shahin
Postdoctoral Research Scholar
PI: Dr. John Engelhardt, Anatomy and Cell Biology and Internal Medicine
Title: Nox2 Inhibition Induces Neurogenesis that Reconnects Brain After Stroke
Iowa City VA Health Care System Student category
Tiffany Borbon
Mentor: Dr. Mary Wilson, Internal Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology
Graduate Program: Microbiology
Title: Bacterial Co-infections in Murine Cutaneous Leishmaniasis
Iowa City VA Health Care System Staff/Postdoc Fellow category
Corey Parlet
Postdoctoral Research Scholar
Mentor: Dr. Mary Wilson, Internal Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology
Title: Enhanced neutrophil effector responses conferring protective anti-MRSA immunity correspond with CD4+ T cell expansion in the skin and germinal center B cell formation in the skin draining lymph nodes
Laura Whitmore
Postdoctoral Research Scholar
Mentor: Dr. Lee-Ann Allen, Internal Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology
Title: Helicobacter pylori modulates the lifespan and cell death mechanisms of human neutrophils
For a complete list of winners, click here.
Next year’s Health Sciences Research Week will be held on April 16-18, 2019.