Research Track Student Projects
Student Researchers participating in the Research Track are provided with several opportunities to present their work without out-of-pocket costs to the student. These presentations are progressive in both the expertise and knowledge of the research content as well as the audience/reviewers.
- Present to their peers in the same Research Track cohort - summer/fall after Phase I.
- Annual Student Research Forum at the Anschutz Medical Campus - fall semester of Phase II
- Western Student Medical Research Forum in Carmel, California - spring semester of Phase II
- At an organized department specific faculty function – student/mentors choice
- National conference of the students/mentors choice in their chosen specialty – Phase IV
| Student | Mentor | Department | Title of Project |
| Sara Brady | Michael Allen, MD | Pysch Scholars | Cannabis and Psychosis: The Implications for Mental Condition Criminal Defenses |
| Benjamin Burns | Willia Proctor | Pysch Scholars | Effect of Tobacco Smoke on Learned Alcohol Consumption in C57/BL6 Mice |
| Amy Cacace | Thomas Beresford, MD | Pysch Scholars | Psychological Adaptive Mechanism Maturity and Anxiety Control in Cancer Patients |
| Katrina Crader | John Repine, MD | Medicine | Development of Frequency Comb Spectroscopy for Early Detection and Monitoring of Trace Molecules in the Breath of Patients With and Developing Acute Lung Injury |
| Anthony Edwards | Paul Wischmeyer, MD | Anesthesiology | Nutrition Therapy to Improve Outcomes from Surgery and Critical Illness |
| Alexis Franks | Jill Slansky, PhD | Immunology | Understanding the T cell response to self-turmor antigens |
| Sabreena Gillow | Sharon Hunter, PhD | Pysch Scholars | Are Defects in Sensory Gating a Reliable Indicator of the Risk of Schizophrenia? |
| Matthew Light | Stephen Davies, PhD | Neurology | Novel Central Nervous System Repair Strategies |
| Jennifer Lillemon | Robert Feinstein, MD | Pysch Scholars | Reducing Medical Student Burnout Utilizing Web-Based Interventions |
| Megan Nelson | Jennifer Hagman-Hazell | Pysch Scholars | |
| Patricia Teschke | Cathy Adams | Pysch Scholars | Decreased Alpha7 Receptor Expression May Contribute to Schizophrenia-Associated Immune Dysregulation |
| Greg Zablocki | Mark Petrash, PhD | Vision Grant | Mechanisms of diabetic eye disease |
| Student | Mentor | Department | Title of Project |
| Keith Baker | David Arciniegas, MD | Psychology Scholars | Potential outcome measures for Parkinson's disease dementia: a systematic review |
| Juri Boguniewicz | Cara Mack, MD | Pediatrics | Bile duct epithelial protein targets of serum autoantibodies in human biliary atresia |
| Karen Christopher | Mark Petrash, PhD | Ophthalmology | Small heat shock protein nanoparticles for cataract treatment |
| Ryan Farmer | Evalina Burger and Vikas Patel, MD | Orthopaedics | Evaluation of the cell adhesion and proliferation capabilities of various orthopedic materials |
| David Higgins | Paul Wischmeyer, MD | Anesthesiology | Role of Vitamin D Deficiency on Infection and Outcome in Critical Illness |
| Mara Kelly | Michael Zimmerman | Surgery | The influence of anti-thymocyte globulin on hepatitis C recurrence in orthotopic liver transplantation |
| Rosemary Reidy | Randy Ross, MD | Psychology Scholars | Theory of Mind Development is Impaired in 4-year-old Children with Prenatal Exposure to Maternal Tobacco Smoking |
| Zachery Robinson | Glenn Furuta, MD | Pediatrics | Esophageal Defensin Expression in Pediatric Patients |
| Andrea Smith | Jennifer Leiferman | Psychology Scholars | Psychosocial Mediators to Physical Activity During the Perinatal Period: A Review of the Literature |
| Vadim Tsvankin | Allan Waziri, | Neurology | Comparative invasive neuromonitoring in a pig model of brain injury |
| Student | Mentor | Department | Title of Project |
| Il-Gyu Cho | Kavita Garg, MD | Radiology | Evaluation of radiological features of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients and response to EGFR tyrosine-kinase inhibitor |
| Brian Cristiano | Rajeev Vibhakar, PhD, MD | Pediatrics | Protein Kinases as Novel Therapeutic Targets in Aggressive Medulloblastoma |
| Jessica Hellyer | Heather Taussig, PhD | Pediatrics | Fostering Healthy Futures: A randomized controlled trial of a preventive intervention for maltreated youth in foster care |
| Douglas Lim | Hari Koul, MSc, PhD | Surgery | Efficacy of gene therapy in treating primary hyperoxaluria type I (PH-1) in a mice model |
| Lisa Mettler | Frank Guido | Psychology Scholars | Localized brain volume and white matter integrity alterations in adolescent anorexia nervosa |
| Emily Moser | D | Pediatrics Scholars | Effect of DPP-IV inhibitors on glucose variability and various glycemic indices in patients with type 1 diabetes |
| Christina Osborne | Samuel Dominguez, PhD, MD | Pediatrics | Viral Gastroenteritis in Children in Colorado |
| Jacob Pellinen | Robert Eckel, MD | e | The circadian and metabolic regulation of sleep, and the metabolic consequences of circadian disruption in mice and humans |
| Tom Ragole | Donald Rojas, PhD | Psychology Scholars | |
| Reddi Anand | Xiao Wang, MD, PhD | Pathology | TGFß signaling and Apoptosis in Head and Neck Cancer |
| Peng-Peng Wei | Sharon Hunter, PhD | Psychology Scholars | Auditory gating during REM sleep in childhood onset schizophrenia patients |
| Tyler Weigang | Ayelet Talmi, PhD | Psychology Scholars |
| Student | Mentor | Department | Title of Project |
| Adam Berlinberg | Bryan Haugen, MD | Medicine | Pharmacologic inhibition of NFkB alone and in combination with taxane-based chemotherapy in an athymic nude mouse orthotopic model of advanced thyroid cancer |
| Dominykas Burneikis | Anirban, Banerjee, PhD | Surgery | Inflammatory Response and Blood Brain Barrier Permeability in Rats Subjected to Trauma and Hemorrhagic Shock |
| Erin Finn | Edward Janoff, MD | Medicine | Magnitude and Mechanisms of Microbiota Development through Antibacterial Properties of Breast Milk |
| Gabriel Habermehl | Edward Janoff, MD | Medicine | Impact of infant immune status on systemic and Mucosal responses to rotavirus vaccine in infants |
| Whitney Hoover | Virginia Winn, PhD, MD | Obstetrics and Gyneclogy | Maternal and Infant Outcomes of Pregnancies Complicated by Preeclampsia |
| Jeremy Hua | Victoria Pelak, MD | Neurology | Cerebral Cortical Changes Associated with Testosterone (T) Supplementation |
| Damian Illing | Jorge Dipaola, MD | Pediatrics | Characterization of Hemostasis in a Mouse Model of Noonan Syndrome |
| Charlie Johnson | Mark Petrash, PhD | Ophthalmology | Deleterious Health Effects of Aerosolized Photo-Ablated Ocular Tissue |
| Christopher Kennel | Brian Berman, MD | Neurology | Functional connectivity of the motor network in healthy, older adults |
| Stephanie Kohler | Elizabeth Connick, MD | Medicine | Mechanisms of CD4+ T follicular helper cell permissiveness to HIV-1 and evasion of virus-specific CTL |
| Luke Law | Brian Branchford | Peds Hematology | iMER, GaS6/TAM Signaling pathway inhibitor |
| James McCullough | Joshua Thurman, MD | Medicine | The role of B cells and IL-10 in the inflammatory response of the kidney |
| Nicole Nghiem | Jeffrey Olson, MD | Ophthalmology | Intraocular Biocompatability of Nickel Titanium Alloy |
| Jessica Posada | James Hagman, PhD | Immunology | Regulation of Mast Cell Development |
| Paul Pukurdpol | Adit Ginde, MD | Emergency Medicine | The Influence of Payers and Typical Business Hours Upon Primary Care-Treatable Visits to the Emergency Department |
| Monil Shah | Rajeev Vibhakar, PhD, MD | Pediatrics | Investigating the role of miR-124 and miR-194 in the Pro-Neural to Mesenchymal Transition and cancer stem cell formation in Glioblastoma Multiforme |
| Anson Snow | Mark Petrash, PhD | Opthalmology | Drug Dosage Studies of β-glucogallin |
| Zach Winkler | Paul Wischmeyer, MD | Anesthesiology | Identification of a Novel Predictor of Anabolic/Catabolic Balance and Nutritional Status in Critical Illness: What Can Be Learned From Elite Athletes? |
| Student | Mentor | Department | Title of Project |
| Justin Lee | Natalie Serkova, PhD | Anesthesiology | Metabolic response to targeted treatment in pancreatic cancer |
| Jason Williams | Paul Wischmeyer, MD | Anesthesiology | Optimizing peri-operative nutritional status with immunonutrition and improving clinical and economic outcomes in gastrointestinal oncology surgery: A barrier assessment and quality improvement project. |
| Santiago | Dennis, Roop, PhD | Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Biology | Exploring the use of apoptotic cells to accelerate the growth of patient-specific keratinocytes for the treatment of severe burns |
| Joel Tourtelloutt | Laurel Lenz, PhD | Immunology | The role of a LysM+ protein of Streptococcus pneumonia during infection |
| Kristen Beck | Kevin Deane, MD | Medicine | Pathogenesis and predicition of rheumatoid arthritis |
| Ryan D'Souza | Matthew Taylor, PhD, MD | Medicine | Role of Laminopathies in progression of dilatedcardiomyopathy |
| Hamza Pasha | Robert Eckel, MD | Medicine | The roll of AgRP on Metabolism in the brian |
| Samantha Tarshis | David Irwin, PhD | Medicine | Repurposing antiangiogenic drugs to trat hypobaric hypoxia and resulting vascular permeability, vasogenic edema, and HACE |
| Thad Vickery | Sean Colgan, PhD | Medicine | IL-10 Signaling in intestinal Mucosa |
| Rebecca Tran | Brian Berman, MD | Neurology | Functional and PET imaging of GABAergic function in primary focal dyystonia |
| Michael Jarrett | Kian Behbakht, MD | OB/GYN | Pharmacologic reversal of TRAIL Resistant Phenotype in Ovarian Cancers |
| Joseph Adewumi | Joseph Brzezinski | Ophthalmology | Characterization of Prdm Gene Family Members in Retinal |
| Jose Diego | Mark Petrash, PhD | Ophthomolgy | Inhibition of Posterior Capsular Opacification |
| Brian Davis | Karin Payne | Orthopaedics | Revitalization of a bone allograft with stem cells for bone tissue engineering |
| Emily Johnson | Frank Accurso | Pediatrics | Molecular Detection and Identification of Staphylococcus aureus in airway samples from Children with lung disease |
| Alex Metoxen | Steven Abman, MD | Pediatrics | Role of Angiogenic Growth Factor Interactions in Chronic Lung Disease of Premature Infants |
| Timothy Newton | Douglas Graham, PhD, MD | Pediatrics | Epigenetic reprogramming in ALL, and Trgeting Mer and Axl in NSCLC |
| June Ng | Rajeev Vibhakar, PhD, MD | Pediatrics | Investigating the efficiency of MPS1 inhibition in medulloblastoma |
| Dan Nguyen | David Wagner, PhD | Pharmacy | Controlling auto-aggressive T-Cells in type 1 diabetes |
| Tyler Anderson | Christian Hopfer, MD | Psychiatry | Resting Heart rates in Adolescents with Substance Use and Conduct Disorders |
| Peter Boulos | Joseph Sakai, MD | Psychiatry | Brain Imaging: Adolescents With Substance and Conduct Problems |
| Kevin Krughoff | David Crawford, MD | Urologic Oncology | Efficient biopsy for nerve sparing local prostate cancer treatment |
| Student | Mentor | Department | Title of Project |
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| Alyssa Blood | Kim Heidenreich, PhD | Pharmacology | Assessing biomarkers as clinical tools for diagnosis and management of TBI |
| Serhiy Chumachenko | Joseph Sakai, MD | Psychiatry | Default Mode network in adolescents with conduct and substance use disorders |
| Justin Greene | John Arcaroli, PhD | Oncology | Evaluation of 19-Phe-DMAG (HSP90 inhibitor) in a preclinical pancreas cancer model |
| Sean Kalra | Brendan Clark, MD | Pulmonary | Comparing AUDIT and AUDIT-C for detection of alcohol misuse in MICU patients |
| Jaren LaGreca | Sumeet Garg, MD | Orthopaedic | Utility of Intraoperative Neurologic Monitoring during VEPTR Expansion Surgery |
| Nicole Look | Frank Chang, MD | Orthopaedic | The effect of foot alignment and flexibility on ankle push-off power in children with cerebral palsy |
| Mia McNulty | Karen King, PhD | Orthopaedic | Osteoarthritis in type 2 diabetic KKAy mice |
| Julio Montejano | Natalie Serkova, PhD | Anesthesiology | Imaging of inflammation by non-invasive quantitative T2-MRI using iron oxide nanoparticles |
| Douglas Rooke | Wells Messersmith, MD | Oncology | The evaluation of Neoamphimedine and Derivaties as Anti-Cell Proliferating Agent |
| Roland Rosello | Jody Tanabe, MD | Department of Radiology | FIRST Analysis of Subcortical Morphometry in Abstinent Substance Dependent Populations and Controls |
| Michael Ziemke | Stephen Malkoski, MD, PhD | Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care | Determining the relationship between Smad4 expression in NSCLC patients and their level of clinical response to certain chemotherapy treatments |
| Student | Mentor | Department | Title of Project |
| Rachel Ancar | Kathrin Bernt, MD | Pediatrics | Mechanism of Dot1l Activity and Pol II Pausing in MLL-Rearranged Leukemia |
| Anna Astashchanka | Britta Jacobsen, Ph.D | Department of Pathology | Role of MUC5AC in Breast Cancer Biology |
| Michael Cookson | Erica Wynne Mandell, DO | Pediatrics-Neonatology Department | Vitamin D Modulates Inflammation from Intra-amniotic Endotoxin Exposure in the Lung |
| Greg Fliney | ENRIQUE ALVAREZ III, M.D., Ph.D., MSCI | Neurology Department | Characterization of Exosomes in Cerebrospinal Fluid |
| Anna Goldberg | John Arcaroli, MS, PhD | Medicine - Division of Medical Oncology | Evaluation of MLN0264 as an effective pancreatic cancer pharmaceutical |
| Logan Hostetter | Bryan Haugen, MD | Medicine | TXNIP Regulated Metabolism in the Development of Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer |
| Marissa Hughbanks | Evalina Burger, MD | Orthopaedics | Variable Expression of Estrogen receptors in human articular cartilage |
| Diane Kelly | Brian Berman, MS, MD | Neurology | Brain activations associated with reflexive blinking and eye muscle spasms in Blepharospasm |
| Katherine Lind | David Schwartz, MD | Medicine | Methylation Changes in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis |
| Darren Lynn | Neil Box, Ph.D. | Dermatology | Determining the relationship of ultraviolet photography severity scores with genetic, phenotypic and sun exposure melanoma risk factors in a cohort of Colorado children. |
| Derek Nhan | Liron Caplan M.D./Ph.D. | Medicine | Drug Survival of Comined DMARDs and Biologics Compared to Biologics Monotherapy in Ankylosing Spondylitis |
| Amelie Peisl | Steven Abman, MD | Pediatrics | Bronchopulmonary dysplasia and preeclampsia in a rat model |
| Mario Perez | Eric Schmidt, MD | Medicine | The role of sepsis in cerebral endothelial glycocalyx degradation. |
| Kelli Robertson | S. Gail Eckhardt, M.D. | Medicine | Exploiting Translation Inhibition as a Novel Therapeutic Strategy for CRC |
| Ivan Rudenko | Robert Eckel, MD | Medicine | Effect of neuron-specific deletion of Lipoprotein Lipase on metabollic parameters |
| Lynelle Smith | Jennifer Richer, Ph.D. | Pathology | Novel Delivery of Non-Coding RNAs to Ovarian Cancer Cells |
| Brian Walsh | Joseph T. Sakai, M.D. | Substance Abuse Grant | Testing for Association between Default Mode Network and Callous Unemotional traits Utilizing Three Groups of Adolescents |
| Emily Warnock | Antonio Jimeno, MD, PhD | Medicine, Cancer Center | Clinical Impact of Cancer Stem Cell Presence and Signaling in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Cancer |
| Mengjie Wu | Edward Neil Janoff, MD | Infectious Disease | Mucosal Defense Against the Pneumococcus |
| Jingjing Yu | Dr. Xiao-jing Wang, MD, PhD | Pathology | Role of TGF-β in regulating angiogenesis and metastasis in Smad4 deficient HNSCC |
| Leonid Zukin | Mark Petrash, BS, Ph.D. | Ophthalmology | Prevention of Posterior Capsular Opacification by an Aldose Reductase Inhibitor |
| Student | Mentor | Department | Project Title | |||
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| Madhurima Baliga | Dr. Jelena Klawitter | Anesthesiology | Biomarkers of inflammation and oxidative stress in patients with kidney diseases | |||
| Kristina Barber | Dr. Nancy Hadley Miller | Orthopedics | Retrospective Analysis of Surgical Intervention on Pediatric Sarcoma Patients | |||
| Sarah Black | Dr. Nanette Santoro | Obstetrics and Gynecology | The Reprometabolic Syndrome Mediates Subfertility in Women | |||
| Dylan Calame | Dr. Sana Karam | Radiation Oncology | The Effect of EphB4 Inhibition/Downregulation on Radiosensitization in HNSCC Cells | |||
| Heather Caulkins | Dr. Natalie Serkova | Cancer Center | Multimodal neuroimaging to distinguish progression from pseudoprogression in gliomas | |||
| Alex Clinkenbeard | Dr. Brian Flynn | Surgery | Assessment of continence recovery outcomes inrobotic-assisted buccal mucosal urethroplasties | |||
| Kelly Crane | Dr. Karen B. King | Orthopedics | Creating a Translational Mouse Model of Chronic Kidney Disease-Mineral and Bone Disorder (CKD-MBD) | |||
| Amanda Glickman | Dr. Brian Berman | Neurology (Schweppe Endowment) | Neural Mechanisms of Eye Muscle Spasms in Blepharospasm | |||
| Kaitlin Gorman | Dr. Paul Wischmeyer | Anesthesiology (Schweppe Endowment) | Effect of Prebiotic Fiber-Enriched (scFOS) Enteral Feeding on the Micorbiome in Head Trauma Patients (Pre FEED Microbiome Trial) | |||
| Eitan Halper-Stromberg | Dr. Russell Bowler | Medicine | Discovering Cell-type specific gene expression in COPD | |||
| Johnny Hoang | Dr. Jeffrey Olson | Ophthalmology | A Non-pharmacologic Approach for Treatment of Macular Degeneration with a Polyacrylonitrile Intraocular Device | |||
| Janet Kim | Dr. Marilyn Coors | Substance Abuse Grant | Social and Distributive Impact of Marijuana Legalization in Colorado | |||
| Kevin Kim | Dr. Jason Hoppe | Substance Abuse Grant | Screening Emergency Department Patients for Aberrant Drug-Related Behavior | |||
| Dillon Le | Dr. Aik-Choon Tan | Cancer Center | Developing a Computational Method for Drug Repurposing and Repositioning | |||
| Caroline Nguyen | Dr. Eoin McNamee | Anesthesiology | Targeting the CXCR3-chemokine axis for the Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease | |||
| Phuong Nguyen | Dr. Brian Berman | Neurology | Neural Mechanism of Resting Tremor in Parkinson’s Disease | |||
| Brian Nycz | Dr. Daniel Frank | Medicine | Early Childhood Development of the Gut Eukaryotic Microbiome in Ugandan Infants | |||
| Daniel Paz de Araujo | Dr. Robert Meguid | Surgery | Developing Methods for Preoperative Capture of ASA Class and Functional Health Status for Implementation in the Surgical Risk… | |||
| Howe Qiu | Dr. Robert Meguid | Surgery | Surgical Risk Preoperative Assessment System (SURPAS) | |||
| Eric Sasine | Dr. Kathrin Bernt | Pediatrics | Histone Methylation in Leukemia | |||
| Christina Spandler | Dr. Ravi Mahalingam | Neurology | Development of Recombinant VZV containing regulatable CRISPR-Cas 9 | |||
| Indira Sriram | Dr. David Maahs | Pediatrics | Evalulating Pressure Induced in Sensor Attenuation Detection in Artificial Pancreas Algorithms | | | |
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| Student | Mentor | Department | Project | |||
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| Davis Aasen | Dr. Robert Meguid | Surgery | Validation of Surgical Risk Preoperative Assessment System (SURPAS) with Specialty-Specific Patient Populations | |||
| Diana Clabots | Dr. Daniel Frank | Medicine (Schweppe Endowment) | Analysis of the Fungal Microbiome of the Sinus in Chronic Rhinosinusitis Patients | |||
| Tiffany Cung | Dr. Mark Laudenslager | Psychiatry (Schweppe Endowment) | Hair Cortisol Prior to Transplant and Time to Engraftment in Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Patients | |||
| Derek George | Dr. Benzi Kluger | Neurology (Schweppe Endowment) | Validating and Operationalizing Case Definition Criteria for Parkinson’s Disease Related Fatigue | |||
| Lakotah Hardie | Dr. Jay Hesselberth | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics | Assessing Cellular Responses to Chemotherapy with a Novel Assay for DNA Repair | |||
| Kellen Hirsch | Dr. Steven Abman | Pediatrics | Insulin-like Growth Factor 1 for the Prevention of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia | |||
| Kevin Huang | Dr. Anna Malykhina | Surgery | Mechanisms of Chemotherapy-induced Bladder Dysfunction in Children | |||
| Matthew Hupy | J Mark Petrash | Ophthalmology | Molecular Targets for Cataract Prevention | |||
| Beza Jobira | Dr. Daniel Frank | Medicine | Exploring the Role of the Gut Microbiome in Youth at Risk for Type 2 Diabetes | |||
| Jared Johnson | Dr. Jeff Olson | Ophthalmology | Analyzing the Biocompatability and Efficacy of a Novel CFD and VEGF Inhibitor in Treating Age-related Macular Degeneration and Diabetic Retinopathy: A Preclinical Trial | |||
| Alexander Jones | Dr. Jay C Albright | Orthopedics | Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury Severity and Post-Reconstruction Functionality | |||
| Peter Klauck | Dr. Todd Pitts | Cancer Center | Antitumor Activity of the ATM Inhibitor AZD1056 as Single Agent and in Combination with Conventional Chemotherapy in Preclinical Models of Colorectal Cancer | |||
| Eric Lakey | Dr. Kenneth Hunt | Orthopedics | Comparison of Soft Suture and Traditional Anchoring Methods in Achilles Tendon Reattachments to the Calcaneus; Interpretation of PROMIS PF CAT Foot & Ankle Results for Healthy Non-Athlete Young Adults | |||
| Pierce Lewien | Dr. Moshe Levi | Medicine (Schweppe Endowment) | Role of FXR, TGR5 and their Targets in Prevention of Diabetes and Obesity Related Kidney and Liver Disease | |||
| Colleen Long | Dr. Ayelet Talmi | Child Psychiatry | The Effects of a Universal Psychosocial Screening on Primary Care Provider’s Identification of Adversity Factors in Pediatric Patients | |||
| Bailey Loving | Dr. Robert Eckel | Medicine | Exploring the role of LPL in M2 microglia as a potential therapy for patients with multiple sclerosis | |||
| Aaron Mauner | Dr. Eoin McNamee | Anesthesiology | Regulation of pathogenic CD4+ T cells in Gut-associated-lymphoid-tissues | |||
| Katie Minami | Dr. Karin Payne | Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Biology Center | Comparing the Chondrogenic Ability of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSCs) Generated from Human Skin Fibroblasts and Donor-matched Bone Marrow Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells (BM-MSCs) | |||
| Adam Panzer | Dr. James Costello | Cancer Center | Using -Omics Data to Illuminate Mechanism in the Progression of Aggressive Prostate Cancer | |||
| Harin Parikh | Dr. Tessa Mandler | Anesthesiology | An Evaluation of Postoperative Pain Management Protocol during and after Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction in the Pediatric Population | |||
| Erik Polsdofer | Dr. Bolin Liu | Pathology | Investigating the Biochemical Pathway in which Metformin Induces Apoptosis in Triple Negative Breast Cancer, Examining TRAIL Receptor and IncRNA GAS-5 | |||
| Thomas Ryan | Dr. Brett Reece | Surgery | Analysis of Spinal Cord Revascularization Related to Aortic Surgery | |||
| Colton Sauer | Dr. James J. Carollo | Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation | A Retrospective Comparison of Rotational Outcomes in Femoral Derotation Osteotomies for Intermedullary Nails versus Blade Plates | |||
| Alexander Schulick | Dr. David Schwartz | Medicine | Identifying and Describing the Transcriptions Factors that Regulate the MUC5B Promotor | |||
| Malvin Vien | Dr. Xiao-jing Wang | Pathology | Targeting Paracrine Stromal Factors Induced by P13K Inhibitor Therapy in HNSCC | |||
| Jonathan Wehrend | Dr. Lisa Ferrigno | Surgery | Risk Factors for Aortic Injury and Associated Mortality in Patients with Blunt Mechanism Trauma at UCH: UC Denver, Memorial Hospital Colorado Springs, Medical Center of Rockies |
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| Student | Mentor | Department | Title of Project |
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| Allyson Adams | Dr. Maryam Guiahi | Obstetrics & Gynecology | Ethical dilemmas encountered by third year medical students in their Ob/Gyn rotation in religious and non-religious institutions |
| Eliza Baird-Daniel | Dr. Jean Mulcahy-Levy | Pediatrics | Targeting Autophagy Pathways in Pediatric CNS Tumors |
| Amrita Chager | Dr. Jay Hesselberth | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics | Innate Immune System Detection of RNA End Modifications |
| Ian Coulter | Dr. Slobodan Todorovic | Anesthesiology | Epipregnanolone as a Novel Anesthetic |
| Simon Feseha | Dr. Slobodan Todorovic | Anesthesiology | The role of Cav3.3 (α1I) Isoform of T-type Calcium Channel in Anesthesia |
| Daniel Grine | Dr. Matthew Taylor | Medicine | Trans-omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Analysis of Human Heart Failure |
| Edward Husarcik | Dr. Michael Khan | Data Science to Patient Value (D2V) | Adaptation of Synthea (a Synthetic Patient Data Generator) to Generate Colorado Specific Data |
| Claire Koljack | Dr. Mark Laudenslager | Psychiatry (Schweppe Endowment) | Long-Term Stress Management and Intraindividual Cortisol Variability in Caregivers of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Patients |
| Jacob Michalski | Dr. David Schwartz | Medicine | Determining the Role of Proteostasis on the Relationship between MUC5B and Airway Epithelia Cell Dysfunction |
| Eniola Ogundipe | Dr. Benjamin Mullin | Child Psychiatry | An Investigation of the Neural and Executive Function Underpinnings of Severe Worry Among Adolescents |
| Andrew Pham | Dr. Joaquin Espinosa | Cancer Center | Trisomy 21 as the Basis to Understanding Common Human Diseases |
| Anne Strong | Dr. Jeffrey Olson | Ophthalmology | Protein Trapping Device for Non-Exudative Macular Degeneration |
| Alexis Sunshine | Dr. Cristin Welle | Neurosurgery (Schweppe Endowment) | Measuring the Inflammatory Response Associated with Implanting Brain Computer Interface Devices |
| Andrew Tannous | Dr. Nanette Santoro | Obstetrics & Gynecology | The Effect of a High Fat Diet on Insulin Resistance |
| Brett Wiesen | Dr. Robert Meguid | Surgery | Comparison of Attitudes of Patients on Use of a Novel Surgical Risk Assessment Tool to Current Practice |
| Tessa Zangara | Dr. Lisa Ferrigno | Surgery | Incidence and Case Fatality Rate of Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections |
| Student | Mentor | Department | Project |
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| Alison Abele | Steven Abman | Pediatrics | Antenatal Exosome Treatment Preserves Lung Structure and Vascular Growth in an Experimental Model of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia Due to Chorioamnionitis |
| Sanjana Bukkapatnam | Sana Karam | Radiation Oncology (Schweppe Endowment) | The Dichotomy of EphrinB2 Signaling in Modulating Proliferation and Invasion in Glioblastoma Multiforme |
| Christian Curran | David Wagner | Webb-Waring Center | Pathologic Th40 Cells Express CD20 in the Peripheral Bloodof Multiple Sclerosis Patients |
| Katherine Drexelius | Kenneth Hunt | Orthopedics | Comparison of patient outcomes following ankle fracture fixation with or without arthroscopy trend toward improved outcomes with arthroscopy |
| Hayley Hawkins | Todd Pitts | Oncology | Examination of Wntsignaling as a therapeutic target for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma using a pancreatic tumor organoid library |
| Jacob Leary | Timothy Vollmer | Neurology | Patient demographic factors, but not disease characteristics or brain volumes, predict likelihood of improvement on patient-reported outcome measures in multiple sclerosis |
| Derek Mason | Rosemary Rochford | Immunology and Microbiology | MEASLES VACCINE RESPONSE VARIES IN 12-MONTH-OLD KENYAN CHILDREN WHICH MAY INCREASE MEASLES TRANSMISSION: PRELIMINARY RESULTS |
| Nick Mason | Robert Meguid | Surgery | A Comparative Assessment for Patient Surgical Risk by Surgeons Vs. A Parsimonious Statistical Risk System (SURPAS) |
| Binhan Pham | Mark Petrash | Opthalmology | TWO FOUNDER LINES OF ALDOSE REDUCTASE KNOCKOUTS CREATED WITH CRISPR/CAS9 |
| Ellen Rhodes | Jeffrey Olson | Opthalmology | Intravitreal polyacrylonitrile complement trap preserves retinal function and morphology in macular degeneration mouse model |
| Alyssa Shepherd | David Wagner | Webb-Waring Center (Schweppe Endowment) | T-Cell Deficient Mice Demonstrate Reduced Atherosclerotic Plaque Burden |
| Alexander Shu | Kenneth Hunt | Orthopedics | Clinical Outcome Differences Between Single and Multi-stage Transtibial Amputations |
| Kumar Thurimella | Cathy Lozupone | Medicine | Employing Metabolomics and Microbiome Data to Build Algorithms for Interrogating Host-Microbe Interactions |
| Ivan Trang | Benzi Kluger | Neurology | Prognostic Value of the UPSA forCognitive Decline in Parkinson’s Disease |
| Anastasiya Trizno | Jason Stoneback | Orthopedics | Optimal Nail Diameter to Medullary Canal (ND/MCD) Ratio in Diaphyseal Tibia Fractures Treated With Intramedullary Nailing |
| Sophia Wolfe | Liron Caplan | Rheumatology (Schweppe Endowment) | Discontinuation of Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibitors in Psoriatic Arthritis and Psoriasis |
| Student | Mentor | Department | Project |
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| Kseniya Anishchenko | Liron Caplan | Rheumatology | Evaluating Clinical Outcomes Associated with Treatment of Spondyloarthritides in Older Adults |
| Salman Ashraf | Anna Malykhina | Surgery - Urology (Schweppe Endowment) | Neural mechanisms of urological chronic pelvic pain syndromes (UCPPS) |
| Nicholas Cleland | Kimberly Bruce | Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes | Novel Imaging Techniques to Monitor Microglial Metabolism |
| Carly Farr | Lisa Ferrigno | Surgery | Association Between Infection Risk and Duration of Prophylactic Antibiotic Use in Patients with Open Fractures |
| Zihan Feng | Matthew Stone | Surgery (Schweppe Endowment) | Improving heart transplantation outcomes with sphingosine-targeted therapies |
| Boston Gubler | Brian Berman | Neurology | Parkinsons Sleep Study |
| Emmeline Kim | Liron Caplan | Rheumatology (Schweppe Endowment) | Correlation of various radiographic views with MRI in the diagnosis of spondyloarthritis |
| Caitlin Ritz | Rajeev Vibhakar | Pediatrics - Neurooncology | Transcriptional role of CDK8/Mediator Complex in MYC-Amplified Medulloblastomas |
| Lexie Ross | Kenneth Hunt | Orthopedics | Retrospective Exploration into Lower Limb Injury Rates and Concussion Diagnosis |
| Brionna Sandbridge | Jay Albright | Orthopedic Surgery | Outcomes of non-operative versus operative treatment for stable OCD lesions of the elbow in adolescent patients |
| Michal Schafer | Kristen Nadeau | Pediatrics - Endocrinology | Cardiovascular MRI Hemodynamics in Pediatric Patients with Type I Diabetes and Type 2 Diabetes |
| Laura Schubert | Robert Doebele | Oncology | Determining Mechanisms of Resistance to RET inhibitors in NSCL |
| Kisha Thayapran | Steven Abman | Pediatrics - Pulmonary & Sleep Medicine | Preservation of Antenatal Angiogenic Signaling to Prevent Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia |
| Richard Tran | Jeffrey Olson | Ophthalmology | Intraocular Device Development |
| Tara Trujillo | Joel Stoddard | Child Psychiatry | Interpretation Bias Training during fMRI in adolescents with irritability |
| Ivana Vasic | Christene Huang | Surgery | The role of galectin-3 in transplantation outcome |
| Emily Wang | Rajeev Vibhakar | Pediatrics - Neurooncology | KDM4B as a novel epigenetic therapeutic target in Atypical Teratoid/Rhabdoid Tumors (ATRT) |
| Dana Yabroudi | Nanette Santoro | Obstetrics & Gynecology | Reprometabolic Syndrome Mediated Subfertility in Obesity |
| Student Name | Mentor | Mentor Department | Project |
| Salman Ashraf | Anna Malykhina | Surgery - Urology (Schweppe Endowment) | Neural mechanisms of urological chronic pelvic pain syndromes (UCPPS) |
| Rachael Branscomb | Lori Sussell | Pediatrics | Comparative analysis of fetal ferret pancreas development |
| Yaswanth Chintaluru | Drew Kern | Neurology | Outcomes of glutamic acid dehydrogenase (GAD) gene therapy and deep brain stimulation (DBS) for Parkinson's Disease |
| Nicholas Cleland | Kimberly Bruce | Medicine | Novel Methodology For Probing Microglial Metabolism In Situ |
| Michaele Francesco Corbisiero | Tyler Muffly | Obstetrics & Gynecology | Mystery Caller Study Evaluating Patient Access for Benign Gynecologic Conditions |
| Bruck Gezahegn | David Wagner | Medicine-Pulmonary Sciences & Critical Care (Schweppe Endowment) | Analyzing early T cell subset markers and RAG1 and RAG 2 induced post-thymic autoregressive T cell receptor alteration among MS "At-Risk " pediatric and adult population |
| Salina Goff | Kevin Deane | Medicine | Optimizing prediction of future rheumatoid arthritis |
| Boston Gubler | Brian Berman | Neurology | Parkinsons Sleep Study |
| Joy Huang | Christene Huang | Surgery - Urology (Schweppe Endowment) | Determining the effect of a preservation cocktail of cell apoptosis and programmed necrosis inhibitors on survivability of rat hind leg tissue post-transplantation |
| Preston Le | Liron Caplan | Medicine, Division of Rheumatology (Schweppe Endowment) | Completeness of common outcomes from randomized controlled trials |
| Jane Manalo | Natalie Serkova | Radiology | Advanced MRI to Assess Inflammatory and Vascular Phenotype in Pediatric Ependymoma Models |
| Rebecca Mullins (Henkind) | Catherine Velopulos | Surgery | Modifiable Patient Factors that May Contribute to Incidence of Elective General Surgeries Progressing to Emergency Surgeries |
| Adom Netsanet | Steven Abman | Pediatrics | Lung Vascular Development and Neonatal Pulmonary Hypertension |
| Thy Nguyen | Nanette Santoro | Obstetrics & Gynecology | Effects of a high fat diet on inflammatory markers and gonadotropin suppression in normal weight women |
| Carson Platnick | Kristen Nadeau | Pediatrics | Impact of metabolic surgery on pancreatic endocrine function in children and adolescents with type 2 diabetes mellitus |
| Ellen Rhodes | Jeffrey Olson | Ophthalmology | |
| Sarah Seiwald | Mark Petrash | Ophthalmology | Corneal Epithelial Wound Healing with Human Breast Milk Treatment |
| Jordan Stellern | Joshua Gowin | Radiology | Neural correlates of emotion regulation in youth at risk for alcoholism |
| Kisha Thayapran | Steven Abman | Pediatrics | Preservation of Antenatal Angiogenic Signaling to Prevent Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia |
| Emily Wang | Rajeev Vibhakar | Pediatrics | KDM4B as a novel epigenetic therapeutic target in Atypical Teratoid/Rhabdoid Tumors (ATRT) |
| Jonathan Zakrajsek | William Vandivier | Medicine | Outcomes Associated with Severe Asthma Exacerbations with use of Extracorporeal membrane Oxygenation |
| Student Name | Mentor | Mentor Department | Project |
| Anthony Adducci | Leslie Berg | Immunology & Microbiology | IRF4's Role in CD8+ T Cell Trafficking |
| Krystal Austin | Leslie Berg | Immunology & Microbiology | Enterovirus D68 T Cell Epitope Mapping and Characterization |
| Ligia Batista | Daniel Lindberg | Pediatrics | Evaluating Contacts of Children Presenting for Suspected Physical Abuse: Understanding Disparities, Preventing Injuries |
| John Wilson Belk | Rachel Clopton | Anesthesiology | The Efficacy of Aprepitant For Prevention of Post-operative Nausea and Vomiting |
| Michael Boysen | Matthew Sikora | Pathology | Understanding Radiation Therapy Response In Invasive Lobular Carcinoma of the Breast |
| Annie Cao | Alexander Horswill | Immunology & Microbiology | Characterization of a Skin Protective Staphylococcus Capitis Isolate |
| Melissa Carpenter | Mark Stephen Myerson | Orthopedics (Schweppe Endowment) | Achilles Tendinopathy. A Three Tiered Investigation Into Its Etiopathogenesis |
| Rehan Choudhury | Ram Nagaraj | Ophthalmology | Molecular Mechanisms of PCO Growth |
| Kaitlyn Dickinson | Yuwen Zhu | Cancer Center | Targeting the GPR171-BigLEN Axis to Improve CAR-T Therapy in Cancer |
| Kathy Ding | Steven Abman | Pediatrics | Effects of Anti-fibrotic Therapeutics on Neonatal Lung Function and Vascular Development |
| Jennifer Felker | Augusto Miravalle | Neurology (Fort Collins Branch) | Personalized Brain Health Program in MS |
| Eric Fu | Ryan Ormon & John Thompson | Neurosurgery (Schweppe Endowment) | Retrospective Analsys of White Matter Tract Change in Gliomas of the Limbic Cortex |
| Elizabeth Garcia Creighton | Carlos Franco | Medicine | Improved Care, Treatment, and Preventive Measures for Neglected Tropical |
| Darren Ha | Kyle Rove | Pediatric Urology Research Enterprise | Ketorolac Usage and Urine Output As Postoperative Predictors of Acute Kidney Injury |
| Rachel Henderson | Grace Marx | Fort Collins Branch Campus | Homeless Service Providers' Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Regarding Body Lice and Louse-borne Diseases |
| Ankit Hirpara | Jason Dragoo | Orthopedics | Evaluating and Treating Subchondral Bone Pathology |
| Alexander Ho | Sean Davis | Medicine | RefineRbio: Enhancing the Value and Reuse of Public Genomic Data Through Software |
| Shaquia Idlett-Ali | Daniel Kramer | Neurosurgery | Assessment of spinal cord stimulation-based modulation in the spontaneous hyperexcitability model of neuropathic pain |
| Michael Kwong | Premal Trivedi | Radiology | Retrospective Review of Pancreatic Venous Anatomy |
| Abigail Ludwigson | Sarah Tevis | Cancer Center | Development of a Decision Aid for Breast Cancer Surgery |
| Aditya Mantha | Karin Payne | Gates Institute | Characterizing the Cells and Pathways of Bony Bar Formation |
| Khoa Nguyen | Michael Graner | Neurosurgery | Investigating the Effects of Chordomal Exosomes on the Chordoma Tumor Microenvironment |
| Jacob Plaisted | Nathan Clendenen | Anesthesiology | Platelet Reactivity and Perioperative Risk After Cardiac Surgery |
| Nicholas Quan | Tianjing Li | Ophthalmology | Autologous Serum for Dry Eye: An Updated Systematic Review |
| Caitlin Robinson | Mitchell Cohen | Surgery | Endothelial Barrier Function After Trauma |
| Shea Shipton | Nathan Clendenen | Anesthesiology | Patient outcomes following peripheral nerve block |
| Caroline Smith | Steven Abman | Pediatrics | Developmental Characterization of TBX4 Insufficiency in Cre-LoxP Recombinant Mice |
| Hillary Ta | Tianjing Li | Ophthalmology (Schweppe Endowment) | Systematic Review of Eye and Vision Disease |
| Satya Raj Trikha | Josiane Broussard | Fort Collins Branch Campus | Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Colorado State University Football Players |
| Student Name | Mentor | Mentor Department | Project |
| Mike Akaraphanth | Vikhyat Bebarta | Emergency Medicine (Fort Collins Branch) | Optimizing Administration Routes of Tranexamic Acid for En Route Care Using a Translational Swine Model of Hemorrhagic Shock |
| Tochi Anioke | Robert Meguid | Surgery | Surgical Site Infection Rate Trends by the Time of the Year Across a Health System |
| Gabriella Annest | Sarah Tevis | Cancer Center | Effective Use of Decision Aids in Shared Decision Making for Breast Cancer Surgical Patients |
| Sarah Ashley | Cindy Buchanan | Surgery and Child Psychiatry | Treatment Variations and Psychosocial Risk Factors that Lead to Increased Cases of Rejection or Re-transplantation in Pediatric Renal Transplant Patients |
| Cameron Bean | Julie Dunn | Surgery (Schweppe Endowment) | Interventions in Pelvic Fractures |
| Caitlin Blades | Brooke French | Plastic Surgery (Pediatrics) | An Objective Assessment of Outcomes of Endoscopic Sagittal Craniosynostosis Release |
| Spencer Buted | Kathleen Adelgais | Pediatrics | Preventing Adverse Childhood Events through Community Interventions with Emergency Medical Services (PACE) |
| Lia Constantine | Jason Dragoo | Orthopedics (Schweppe) | Early Intervention Using Leukocytepoor PRP after ACL Tear to Prevent Early Changes of Post-traumatic OA |
| Nicholas Felan | Brad Changstrom | Medicine (Fort Collins Branch) | Risk of Acute Lower Body Injury in NHL Players Post Return to Play |
| Sydney Fry | Jason Dragoo | Orthopedics | Decreasing Female ACL Injury Rates by Selective Use of OCP |
| Emma Golden | Clyde Wright | Pediatrics | Pulmonary Implications of Perinatal Acetaminophen Exposure |
| Garrett Healy | Robert Meguid | Surgery | Estimation of Unadjusted and Risk-Adjusted Increases in Postoperative Length of Stay (PLOS) Due to Postoperative Complications |
| Jaclyn Orehova | Kathleen Adelgais | Pediatrics | Qualitative Exploration of Neighborhood-Level Disparaties in Pediatric Trauma |
| Pritika Parmar | Kasey Couts | Medicine | Understanding the Role of the Tumor, Gut, and Blood Microbiomes in Mucosal Melanoma Anti-Tumor Immunity |
| Tristan Seawalt | Nathan Clendenen | Anesthesiology (Schweppe Endowment) | Developing a Risk Index for Coronary Bypass Patients |
| Ananya Shah | Brett Reece | Surgery (Schweppe Endowment) | Investigating the Cardiopulmonary Bypass Parameters that Affect Patient Risk for Developing Acute Kidney Injury and Subsequent Outcomes in Total Arch Replacement |
| Adam Stevens | Laura Sean Wiley | Division of Biomedical Informatics (Cancer Center) | Developing an Algorithm to Detect Adverse Events or Other Clinical Findings in Cancer Clinical Trial Patients |
| Katie Thompson | Robert Meguid | Surgery | Effect of Minimally Invasive Surgery on Trends Over Time in Postoperative Adverse Outcomes in the ACSNSQIP Database |
| Michelle Wehbe | Steven Schuster | Medical Oncology (Fort Collins Branch) | Analysis of COVID-19 Infection and Vaccination in Hospitalized Patients with Lymphoma |
| Kyle Williams | Jason Dragoo | Orthopedics | DeNovo Natural Tissue Allograft for Treatment of Condyle Lesions |
| Yan Zhou | Bruce Appel | Pediatrics | Microglial Mediation of Remyelination and Scar Formation Following Spinal Cord Injury in Zebrafish |
| Owen Zielinski | Sarah Kennedy | Child and Adolescent Psychiatry | Stress, Burnout, and Coping in Providers of Acute Mental Health care for Children and Adolescents |
| Student Name | Mentor | Mentor Department | Project |
| David Alexander | Sean Pauzauskie | Neurology (Fort Collins Branch) | Transient Global Amnesia in Northern Colorado |
| Natasha Barton | Christene Huang | Surgery | Galectin-3 as a potential biomarker for VCA rejection |
| Ariel Chen | Marsha Guess | Obstetrics & Gynecology | The role of estrogen in preventing recurrent urinary tract infections |
| Isabella Crisostomo | Joshua Parry | Orthopedics | A retrospective review of the effect of postoperative steroid use in orthopaedic trauma and cessation of oxycodone use |
| Alexandra Danciutiu | Jacob Pellinen | Neurology (Schweppe Endowment) | The Association of Pre-treatment Seizures with Depression and Anxiety in People with Newly Treated Focal Epilepsy |
| Courtney Difilippo | Kelly Harris | Surgery and Child Psychiatry | Understanding the psychosocial and sexual well-being of women with a childhood diagnosis of anorectal malformation |
| Isabel Friesner | Joel Stoddard | Child and Adolescent Psychiatry | Machine learning based prediction of suicidality in adolescents |
| Tania Gonzalez | Steve Abman | Pediatrics | Effects of Maternal Vitamin D Deficiency on Pulmonary Endothelial Cell Growth and Function |
| Kyle Jamar | Joshua Parry | Orthopedics (Schweppe Endowment) | A retrospective review of femoral neck fracture fixation: The effect of initial displacement on the need for reoperation |
| Haaris Kadri | Robert Meguid | Surgery | Development of a Mobile Application for the Implementation of the Surgical Risk Preoperative Assessment System |
| Amir Kalani | Elizabeth Ryan | Environmental and Radiologic Health Sciences (Fort Collins Branch) | Effect of Diet on Colon Tissue Metabolites |
| Andrew Keene | Nicole Tartaglia | Pediatrics | The role of testosterone as a predictor of health and developmental outcomes in infants with XXY/Klinefelter syndrome |
| Diemmy Nguyen | Sana Karam | Radiation Oncology | Modulation of head and neck cancer metastasis by EphB4 and ephrinB2 interaction |
| Isabelle Roseto | Christiana Smith | Pediatrics | Inflammatory profile of HIV-exposed infants in the first year of life |
| Selma Sabra | Jacob Pellinen | Neurology | Improving utilization of community recources for people with epilepsy attending neurology clinics at the University of Colorado. |
| Jake Sawyer | Joshua Parry | Orthopedics | A retrospective review of lithium use & venous thromboembolic events in patients undergoing major surgery |
| Emma Shelby | Scott Oliver | Ophthalmology | Predicting Vision Outcomes in Uveal Melanoma Patients |
| William Ton | Steven Markus | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (Fort Collins Branch) | Zn2+ Regulation of Microtubule Associated Proteins |
| Amber Young | Jacob Pellinen | Neurology | Factors Associated with Lamotrigine Blood Levels in People with Newly Treated Focal Epilepsy |
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