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
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