Congrats to these students who have received funding in the first round of the 2024 student research round:
Perry (PJ) Johnson – Predictive Measures of Ground Reaction Forces Using Inertial Measurement Units and Machine Learning Technology
Ishita Kathuria – Macrophage RSPO2-LGRA Signaling in MASLD
Abdul Majid – Novel Pharmacotherapy Targeting Neuroinflammation Following Neuronal Injury
Sandesh Marathe – Use of Incretin Mimetic Ozempic (semaglutide) to Alleviate Obesity-Mediated Progression of Pancreatic Cancer
Hector Paez – Nuclear Orphan Receptor NOR-1 as a Modulator of Muscle Plasticity to Reverse Skeletal Muscle Dysfunction in Age-associated Sarcopenia
Saikat Paul – Impact of Candida Albicans and Staphylococcus Aureus Co-infection on Hemostasis and Platelet Activation
Samson Simon – Determining the Impact of TBC 1D30 Gene Knockout in Triple Negative Breast Cancer
Jinhong Xie – Transcriptomics-based Investigation of Molecular Mechanisms Underpinning Essentiality of Sterol C-24
Student applications for self-directed research were reviewed and ranked by the Research Review Committee, made up of volunteer alumni and corporate representatives. Thank you to these participants:
Karen Baskerville (’96)
Todd Bourcier (Friend)
Sebastian Bredow (‘95)
John Brooke (Friend)
Danielle Corwin (’13)
Atul Dandekar (Friend)
Chetan Deshpande (’01)
Gary Gao (’95)
Dean Gillespie (’95)
Prasad Gullapalli (’93)
Daniel Hoagland (’16)
Daniel Hoyer (’19)
Jessica Hoyer (’19)
Robert Hsu (Friend)
Ben Huangfu (’18)
Viraj Ichhaporia (’18)
Kim Jenkins (Friend)
Lisa Jennings (’83)
Tricia Jensen (’02)
Mason Kauffman (Friend)
Bill Kouns (’91)
Bill Lester (’97)
Lian Liu (Friend)
Wei Liu (’07)
Yanli Mi (’02)
Taren Ong (’17)
Divyen Patel (Friend)
Dick Peppler (former CGHS Dean)
Ethel Pereira (’12)
Lee Pribyl (’20)
Paul Rhyne (’97)
Kamalika Samanta (’23)
Vreiti Sangha (‘12)
Sharad Shrestha (’16)
Margaret Sperow (’11)
Jim Stanley (’72)
Weili Sun (‘04)
Asad Taherbhoy (’11)
Joe Tarnowski (’79)
Ziad Temrikar (’23)
Robyn Umans (’14)
Keven Williams (’00)
Bainan Wu (’06)
Sunny Wu (’06)
Tiger Xie (’07)
Jay Yang (’94)
Donghua Yin (’00)
If you’d like to support student research, please make your online gift for the program of your preference: http://giving.uthsc.edu/cghsstudentresearch
- Biomedical Engineering Student and Postdoctoral Scholar Research Scholarship
- Biomedical Sciences Student and Postdoctoral Scholar Research Scholarship
- Dental Sciences Student and Postdoctoral Scholar Research Scholarship
- Epidemiology Student and Postdoctoral Scholar Research Scholarship
- Health Outcomes and Policy Research Student and Postdoctoral Scholar Research Scholarship
- Nursing Sciences Student and Postdoctoral Scholar Research Scholarship
- Pharmaceutical Sciences Student and Postdoctoral Scholar Research Scholarship
- Speech and Hearing Sciences Student and Postdoctoral Scholar Research Scholarship