Seven students from the School of Medicine funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Medical Research Fellows Program presented their research in April at the American Society of Clinical Investigation/American Academy of Physicians Joint Conference in Chicago. The program funds a full year of laboratory research with a dedicated mentor. All the students started with the Class of 2017 and have taken a fifth year for research.
The students and their research projects are listed below.
- John P. Andrews – Subcortical cholinergic arousal nuclei during seizures: in vivo-whole cell recordings in a rat model
- Melody Y. Hu – Chronic stress impairs reward-directed behavior in a rodent model of depression
- Tambudzai Kudze – Are there sex-specific differences in arteriovenous fistula maturation?
- Erik Levinsohn – Reducing T cell-mediated cardiac injury through TLR9 signaling with CpG oligodeoxynucleotides
- Julio D. Montejo – Molecular mechanisms of SMARCB1 recurrent somatic missense mutations in meningioma tumorigenesis
- Neal M. Nolan – FOXG1 overexpression and epigenetic landscape in a human iPSC-derived forebrain organoid model of severe macrocephalic autism spectrum disorder
- James C. Reed – T Lymphocytes and Type 1 Diabetes: Receptor for Advanced Glycation Endproducts Signaling
Submitted by John Curtis on May 02, 2017