2014 YCCI Scholars

Gustavo Angarita-Africano, MD, Instructor in Psychiatry

Glutamate-Glutamine Cycling (VCYC) During Cocaine Abstinence Using 13C-MRS

Deepa Camenga, MD, MHS, Instructor of Pediatrics (Adolescent Medicine)

Text Messaging to Augment Physician Advice for Smoking Cessation in a College Health Clinic

Stuart Campbell, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering & Physiology

Establishing Feasibility of an In Vitro Assay for Cardiomyopathy Inheritance

Forrest Crawford, PhD, Assistant Professor of Public Health (Biostatistics) and of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Estimation of Disease Rates in Hidden Populations

Marcelo Dietrich, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Comparative Medicine and of Neurobiology

Hunger-Promoting AGRP Neurons and Their Cellular Substrates in the Etiology of Anorexia Nervosa

Jason Gerrard, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and of Neurobiology

How and Where Do Seizures Happen? A Systems Neuroscience Approach to Understanding Epileptogenesis in Epilepsy Patients and a Novel Animal Model in Parallel

Emily Gilmore, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurology

Using Noninvasive Electroencephalography and Cerebral Oximetry Monitoring to Understand Brain Physiology in Critically Ill Patients with Sepsis

Shangqin Guo, PhD, Assistant Professor of Cell Biology

A New Model for Cancer Cell-of-Origin

James Hansen, MD, Assistant Professor of Therapeutic Radiology

Optimizing a Lupus Autoantibody for Targeted Cancer Therapy

Janice Hwang, MD, Instructor in Medicine (Endocrinology)

Investigating Fructose Production in the Central Nervous System via the Polyol Pathway in Patients with Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Melissa Knauert, MD, PhD, Instructor in Medicine (Pulmonary)

Circadian Misalignment in Critically Ill Patients

Grace Kong, PhD, Associate Research Scientist in Psychiatry

Interactive Mobile Phone Intervention to Reinforce Smoking Cessation for Underserved Adolescent Smokers

Monica Ordway, PhD, APRN, PNP-BC, Assistant Professor of Nursing (Acute Care)

Associations of Socioeconomic Adversity and Sleep with Allostatic Load Among Toddlers

Neil Romberg, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Immunology)

Characterization of the Immune Deficient and Autoimmune Features of Smith-Magenis Syndrome

Brian Shuch, MD, Assistant Professor of Urology and of Diagnostic Radiology; Assistant Professor of Radiology

Tumor Heterogeneity in the Small Renal Mass: Biomarker Approaches to Limit Overtreatment

Daniel Weinberger, PhD, Assistant Professor of Public Health (Microbial Diseases)

Predicting Patterns of Pneumococcal Serotype Replacement among Adults Using Experimental and Epidemiological Data

Xiting Yan, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary)

Computational Analysis of Longitudinal Blood and Airway Gene Expression Data to Define Endophenotypes of Asthma