Research Day 2012 Winners

Professional Students

  1. Peju Adekoya, College of Medicine - Racial Disparity in Mortality Following Complication After Pancreaticoduodenectomy
  2. Linda Nwachukwu, College of Pharmacy – Trends of Vitamin D Prescribing Among Elderly Americnas: Results from National Ambultory Medical Care Surveys 2000 TO 2009
  3. Kellee James, College of Pharmacy - Response Rates to the Hepatitis B Vaccine in HIV-Infected Patients

Resident/Post-Doctoral Students

  1. Angesom Kibreab, College of Medicine - Safety and hemodynamic outcome of same day versus different day endoscopic
  2. Kavitha Sankavaram, College of Medicine - Resveratrol Supplementation Improves Neuroprotective Biomarkers in Rhesus Macaques’ Fed with a High-Fat, High-Sugar Diet
  3. Layla Alizadeh, College of Medicine - The value of D-dimer in evaluating African-American patients with suspected deep venous thrombosis

Graduate Students

  1. Shaina Reid, College of Medicine - Neuromodulation of Cortical Neurons in the Anterior Olfactory Nucleus
  2. Olubukola Kalejaiye, College of Medicine - Effects of Alcohol and Nicotine Combination in a Rat Model of Depression: Implications for Drinking-Smoking Co-morbidity
  3. Kasey Davis, College of Medicine - Alternative Transcripts in Fetal and Adult Human Brain For GAD1 and GAD2

Junior Faculty

  1. Tongxin Wang, College of Dentistry - Bioresorbable Composites with Improved Mechanical Strength and Biocompatibility for Bone Repair
  2. Hassan Brim, College of Medicine - Phylogenetic and Metabolomic Fingerprinting of the Fecal Microbiota in Colon Adenoma Patients
  3. Amol Kulkarni, College of Pharmacy - Enantioselective Synthesis of Betulinic Acid Analogs As Potent Inhibitors of HIV-1

Senior Faculty

  1. Kevin Morris, College of Medicine - Investigation of Chiral Molecular Micelles by Molecular Dynamics Simulation
  2. Werner Graf, College of Medicine - Oculomotor Nuclear Organization in a Great Ape (Chimpanzee: Pan troglodytes)
  3. Yusuf Yazici, College of Medicine - Relationship of RA Disease Activity Classifications and Medication Usage with Ethnicity