2023 Award Ceremony & Award Winners

HSC College of Pharmacy

Pharmaceutical Science Research Award

First Place, Cephas Appiah, Sex differences in the activation of central autonomic control regions and neuroinflammation in chronic intermittent hypoxia

Second Place, Jinmin Zhang, Novel functions of the Glutaredoxin (Grx) System in the Lens

Third Place, Kudakwashe Murinda, Effect of Monocarboxylate Transporter 2 Loss on Retinal Ganglion Cell Survival and Function

Clinical/Outcomes Research Award

First Place, Faith Spivey, Impact of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Home and Discharge Inhaler Regimens on Exacerbation Severity and Hospital Readmission

Second Place, Emmanuel Rodriguez, Diabetes-Related Outcomes of an Interprofessional Chronic Care Management (CCM) Service in Medicare Beneficiaries

SaferCare Texas

Excellence In Patient Safety Research Award

First Place, George Beeton, The Incidence of Distal Extremity Necrosis Associated with Vasopressor use in Critically Ill Patients

Second Place, Ryan Terrillion, Implementation of changing clinical practices: Prenatal syphilis screening in Texas

Third Place, Faith Spivey, Impact of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Home and Discharge Inhaler Regimens on Exacerbation Severity and Hospital Readmission

School of Biomedical Sciences

Oral Presentation Award

First Place, Jonna Smith, A new rodent model of preeclampsia: Pregnant daughters from hypertensive placental ischemic moms have hypertension

Second Place, K. Austin Davis, Induced Blood Flow Oscillations at 0.1 Hz Protects Oxygenation of Severely Ischemic Tissue

Postdoctoral Poster Presentation

First Place, Julio Rincon, Microfluidic Chip for the evaluation of therapeutics and carrier drugs in breast cancer tissue

Second Place, Rucha Trivedi, Annexin A2 in tumor-derived extracellular vesicles: Molecular contributions in metastatic triple negative breast cancer

Center for Heathy Aging

Sampada Chaudhari, The impact of tyrosine hydroxylase loss on dopamine signaling during nigrostriatal neuron loss in a rat Parkinson’s disease model

North Texas Eye Research Institute Graduate Student Award

First Place, Kim-Tuyen T. Le, The Neuroprotective Effects of Hybrid SA-10 Nanoparticles in a Glaucoma Mouse Model of Retinal Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury

Second Place, R. Max Petty, Development of Reconstituted High-Density Lipoprotein Nanoparticles Utilizing Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer for Ocular Applications

Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Genetic Award

First Place, Christoffer Lambring, Targeting Sp1 in Ewing Sarcoma: A multi-approach method for the utilization of Mithramycin

Second Place, Christopher Baker, Analysis of Key Cellular Changes of Triple Negative Breast Cancer Cells in Response to Kinase-Inhibiting BI2536 and Associated Derivatives

Department of Pharmaceutical & Pharmacotherapy Award

First Place, Jaylen Mans, Impact of pH modulation and NaDC micellular behavior on Amphotericin B solubility

Second Place, Meredith Garrett, Pharmacokinetic and Physicochemical Evaluation of Novel Drug Candidates for Retinitis Pigmentosa

Department of Pharmacology & Neuroscience Award

First Place, Oanh Trinh, Development of a mouse model to study the long-term effects of chemotherapy on brain function

Second Place, Ammar Kapic, LABEL-FREE QUANTITATIVE PROTEOMICS REVEAL PROTEIN NETWORKS AND ASSOCIATED BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES IN ANDROGEN DEPRIVED MOUSE SEMINAL VESICLES IN RESPONSE TO 17-β-ESTRADIOL (E2) TREATMENT

Department of Physiology & Anatomy-Integrative Physiology Program Award

First Place, Dianna Nguyen, Visium Spatial Transcriptomics Reveal Sex Differences in Supraoptic Nucleus Gene Expression of Adult Rats Related to Cell Signaling and Ribosomal Pathways

Second Place, Viet Dinh, Effect of Sigma-1 Receptor Activation on Renal Injury and Hypertension in Female Mice with Lupus

Department of Physiology & Anatomy-Structural Anatomy & Rehabilitation Sciences Award

First Place, Javan Stalls, Contrast-enhanced micro-CT approaches for visualizing musculoskeletal development in neonatal mice

Second Place, Courtney Miller, Cranial Bone Ossification Trajectories in a Mouse Model of Osteogenesis Imperfecta

School Of Public Health

Research Award Award

First Place, Allison Cross, Examining Familiarity with Location and People in Association with Protective Behavioral Strategy Use Among Adolescents and Young Adults at the Daily-Level

Second Place, Nathaniel Webb, Health Equity Implications of Transgender Policies in the United States: A Legal Epidemiology Approach

Third Place, Edna Patricia Mendoza, Multi-hazard assessment in Kyrgyzstan’s Osh Region using Maximum Entropy

Community Engaged Research Award

Ngoc Nguyen, Preliminary Results from the DFW Viet-American Health Pilot Study

Texas College Of Osteopathic Medicine

2023 Medical Student Government Association Best in First Year Class

Krusha Shah, A Qualitative Histological Comparison of Collagen Deposition Between a Diseased and Healthy Cadaveric Heart

2023 Medical Student Government Association Best in Second Year Class

Linh Nguyen, Symptomatic Carrier Frequency of Familial Mediterranean Fever

2023 Medical Student Government Association Best in Third Year Class

Khanh Nguyen, A Rare Case of Synchronous Familial Adenomatous Polyposis and Endometrial Carcinoma

2023 Medical Student Government Association Best of DO/PhD Dual Degree Students

Dianna Nguyen, Visium Spatial Transcriptomics Reveal Sex Differences in Supraoptic Nucleus Gene Expression of Adult Rats Related to Cell Signaling and Ribosomal Pathways

2023 Medical Student Government Association Best of DO/MPH Dual Degree Students

Prakriti Srivastava, Outcomes of Patients Treated with Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer at John Peter Smith Hospital

2023 Student Research Award

First Place, Sienna Benavides, Assessing the Impact of Senate Bill 8 on Texas Medical Students’ Future Specialty Choice and Intended Location of Practice

Second Place, Katherine Russell, Sleep Insufficiency, Circadian Rhythms, and Metabolomics: The Connection to Metabolic and Sleep Disorders

2023 Student Research Award – Best Case Study

Khanh Nguyen, A Rare Case of Synchronous Familial Adenomatous Polyposis and Endometrial Carcinoma

2023 Honors Student Research Award

Linh Nguyen, Symptomatic Carrier Frequency of Familial Mediterranean Fever

2023 OMM-I.M. Korr, Ph.D. Memorial Research Award

Emily Lin, Case Study on the Effect of Osteopathic Manipulation on Gallbladder Ejection Fraction

HSC Health 2023 Health Care Delivery Award

Lily Gill, Transgender Healthcare and The Impact of Increased Politicization of Medicine

University of North Texas Health Science Center 2023 Interprofessionalism Award

Angel Nguyenly, Outcomes of a Team-Based Chronic Care Management Service in a Dual-Eligible Medicare and Medicaid Population with Diabetes Mellitus

2023 Pediatric Research Award

Bharati Murthy, Unassigned Albuterol Legislation

2023 Pediatric Case Study Award

Kulsum Abdali, Pediatric Rhabdomyolysis and Plasmapheresis – A Review of Two Cases

2023 Women’s Health Research Award

Sienna Benavides, Assessing the Impact of Senate Bill 8 on Texas Medical Students’ Future Specialty Choice and Intended Location of Practice