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2024 Symposium Awards

Oral Presentation Winners

Faculty Members - tied for 1st Place

  • Dr. Nirakar Sahoo
    Targeting Ion Channels in Liver Cancer Cells: Stimulating Lysosomal TRPML1 and Inhibiting hEAG1 Potently Reduce Cell Viability

  • Dr. Lisa Salinas
    Risk of Food Insecurity Reflects Health Status in Adult Relatives of PreK Children – Data from the STEPS Snap-Ed Research Study

Staff

  • Dr. Anupam Dhasmana
    CEACAM7 emerges as a promising early detection biomarker in pancreatic cancer

Fellow/Post-Doc

  • Dr. Ryan P. Coll
    Assessment of Mucin 12 (MUC13) as an Imaging Target for Guiding Colorectal Cancer Treatment: A Pathway Towards Theranostic Development

Medical Resident

  • Dr. Shreel Patel
    Spontaneous Iliopsoas Hematoma secondary to Warfarin toxicity

Medical Students - tied for 1st Place

  • Andrew Kolodziej
    A Rare Encounter: Extracranial Meningioma Mimicking Musculoskeletal Neoplasms

  • Miguel Lopez
    Birth defect trends within Texas Public Health Region 11, 2000-2019: an analysis of Texas Department of State Health Services public data

Graduate Students - tied for 1st Place

  • Andrea Dorado Baeza
    Optimization and characterization of one-step multi-functionalization of virus-like particles for multimodality nanoplatforms

  • Dikshanta V. Luitel
    Exploring Xenophagy: How Colon Epithelial Cells Combat Intracellular Bacterial Threats

Undergraduate Student

  • Tomas Gomez, Jr.
    Exploring Neuroplasticity Changes in Neurotoxin-induced Parkinson’s Disease: A Preliminary Analysis using Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation



Poster Presentation Winners

Faculty

  • Dr. Neeraj Chauhan
    A Novel Exo-Glow Nano-system for Bioimaging

Staff

  • Daniel Salinas
    Assessing Gait Metrics for Early Parkinson's Disease Prediction: A Preliminary Analysis of Underfit Models

Fellow/Post-Doc

  • Dr. Rahul Tiwari
    Nebulization based Inhalation Nanomedicine for Lung Cancer Treatments

Medical Resident

  • Dr. Eunbee Cho
    Varicella Meningoencephalitis in Patient with End-Stage Renal Disease on Hemodialysis Following Varicella-Zoster Flare in the Chest

Medical Student

  • Aun A. Bangash
    Honey targets ribosome biogenesis process in human pancreatic cancer cells to inhibit their growth and metastatic phenotypes

Graduate Student

  • Bianca A. Camacho
    Investigating Interrater-reliability in Assessing Social Behavior of Monodelphis Domestica

High School/Undergraduate Category

  • Adhira Tippur
    La1-xSrxCoO3 perovskite nanomaterial: Synthesis, characterization, and its biomedical application

People's Choice Award

  • Yamile Abuchard Anaya
    Unveiling the Influence of Transcription Factor YB1 in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cell Lines



Poster Presentation Honorable Mentions

Faculty

  • Dr. Tuula Klaavuniemi
    A Translational Approach Towards More Cost-Effective Lung Cancer Treatments

Fellow/Post-Doc

  • Dr. Prakhar Sengar
    ICG-loaded mesoporous nanohybrid (Nd-doped Hydroxyapatite/Fe3O4) for photonic/magnetic hyperthermia and photodynamic therapy

Medical Residents

  • Dr. Elimar Gonzalez Morales
    Exploring the Long-Term Consequences of Neglected Hypothyroidism Patient at South Texas: A Case Report

  • Dr. Jian Garcia Cruz
    The Cardiac Cost of Cancer Care: Atezolizumab-Induced Dilated Cardiomyopathy

  • Abhishekh Pokhrel
    Influence of Neurotoxin Load on Parkinson’s Disease Pathophysiology

  • Blake Martin
    The Link Between Depression and Bone Fractures in the Rio Grande Valley

  • Chloe Harris
    Correlation Between Lecture Engagement and Academic Performance in the UTRGV School of Medicine

Staff

  • Caroline Puckett
    Social and Structural Determinants of Health Associated with Cervical Cancer Screening Uptake in South Texas

Graduate Students

  • Ranjit Kumar Das
    Alteration of the Interferon alpha signaling pathway significantly affects Alzheimer's Disease Pathology in APP/PS1 mouse model

  • Rubén Montalvo Méndez
    Ultrabithorax, Abdominal-A and Abdominal-B form heterodimers and homodimers in living cells by BiFC

HS/Undergraduate Students

  • Carlos A Cisneros
    Impact of a Costello Syndrome-Causing Mutation on Learning and Myelin-Producing Cells

  • Sumeet Chauhan
    Exploring the Anti-Cancer Potential of Anthocyanins via Autophagy Overactivation

  • Tomas Gomez, Jr.
    Stress Hormone and Heart Rate Responses to Various Exercise Training Methods


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