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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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