2025 Internal Medicine Research Day winners’ presentations

Every year the winners of the poster session at the previous fall’s Internal Medicine Research Day are invited to deliver oral presentations of their work to the department’s Grand Rounds. Last week, three of the four winners showed the audience in Medical Alumni Auditorium and those attending virtually the scope of the department’s research activities.

Alicia Gerke, MD, one of the current co-chairs of Research Day in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Occupational Medicine, spoke briefly on behalf of her and fellow co-chair Alejandro Comellas, MD. Gerke praised the high quality of these winners’ work, as well as all those who submitted abstracts to last fall’s event. Gerke encouraged attendees to mark their calendars now for September 29, the next Internal Medicine Research Day. She also revealed the name of that event’s keynote speaker, Edwin Silverman, MD, PhD, from Harvard Medical School.

Presentations

Best Basic Science Poster
Hydroxymethylation drives post-mitotic epigenetic inflammatory memory in airway basal stem cells
Lorena Tran

Best Trainee Poster
Grp Signaling in the Basolateral Amygdala Promotes a Fear Sensitization Responses After Exposure to Strong Threats
Nathaniel Connolly

Best Poster by a Resident or Fellow
Quantitative Chest CT Analysis to Identify Small Airways Disease After Lung Transplantation
Ashten Sherman

[Note: Because of a scheduling conflict, the winner of the Best Clinical Research Poster, Syed Ahmed Nadeem, for “Automated Multi-Volume CT Biomarkers of Respiratory Mechanics in COPD: Associations with Mortality and Characterization of Impairments in PRISm and Early Dyspnea” was unable to present.]

Watch the presentations here.