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William Alexander
Maryville College
  • TBD
  • TBD

Med 1

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Brandon Bader
Colorado State University

Grad 2

Developmental neurobiology

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Michael-John Beltejar
SUNY Brockport
  • TBD
  • TBD

Med 1

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Samuel Carrell
University of Iowa
  • TBD
  • TBD

Med 2

Molecular biology/neuroscience

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Adrianne Chesser
Carleton College

Grad 2

Mitochondrial function as a function of impaired fission and fusion in Parkinson's disease

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Youngsun Theresa Cho
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Grad 3

Biology of psychiatric illnesses

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Amit Kumar Chowdhry
Cornell University
  • TBD

Med 2

Statistical methods for epidemiology and clinical research

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Andrew George Cox
Southern Nazarene University

Grad 1

Temperature sensitivity of Influenza polymerase as a determinant of pathogenicity

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Debbie Dao
University of Southern California

Med 4

Skeletal development

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Danielle DeCampo
University of Notre Dame

Grad 3

Functional plasticity in neuronal circuits, effects of stress on neuronal circuits involved in mood disorders

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Laura DiChiacchio
University of California, Irvine

Grad 3

Secondary RNA structure predictions using dynamic programming algorithms

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Adam Christopher Dziorny
Johns Hopkins University

Med 4

Auditory Development Insults and Windows of Rescue

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Youssef Farhat
University of California, Irvine

Grad 2

Development and optimization of a collagen gel model of tendon healing

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Vincent Fong
Lehigh University

Med 3

Conditionally replicating adenovirus

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Laura Fornarola
University of Rochester

Grad 4

Mechanisms of neuronal cell death

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Alison Gaylo
Bucknell University

Grad 1

Interstitial migration of lymphocytes through inflamed skin

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Candace D. Gildner
University of Rochester

Med 4

Tissue engineering

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Natasha Golub
College of William and Mary

Grad 3

Refugee health

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Alexander Hajduczok
University of Rochester
  • TBD
  • TBD

Med 1

Beta-adrenergic receptor signaling pathways in heart function/heart failure

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Katherine Herman
  • TBD
  • TBD

Med 2

Neuroangiogenesis

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Adnan Hirad
CUNY Lehman
  • TBD
  • TBD

Med 1

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Michael Simon Jacob
University of California, Berkeley

Med 3

Cognitive neuroscience and contextual influences on visual motion processing

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Anat Kohn
University of Rochester

Grad 4

The role of Notch signaling in the differentiation and maturation of chondrocytes during endochondral bone formation.

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Justin Komisarof
  • TBD
  • TBD

Med 2

Bioinformatics

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Jonathan Langdon
SUNY Stonybrook

Grad 2

Medical imaging research

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Rialnat Lawal
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Grad 2

Role of Jagged 1 in mature osteoblasts

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Susan Sojung Lee
Pomona College

Med 3

Audiovisual integration, autism, nonverbal communication, fMRI

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Colin Lockwood
  • TBD
  • TBD

Med 2

Systems neuroscience

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Nguyen Mai
UCLA
  • TBD
  • TBD

Med 1

Vascular neurology, genetics

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Kevin Makino
Oberlin College

Grad 6

Socioeconomic influences on child development, public policy (especially Medicaid and CHIP), adolescent preventive and reproductive health

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Daniel Marker
Clarkson University

Grad 4

Neuro-inflammation

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Evan McConnell
University of Rochester

Grad 1

Deep brain stimulation, movement and cerebrovascular disorders

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Tristan Nicholson
University of Washington Seattle

Grad 2

Benign and malignant diseases of the genitourinary tract

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Lisa Niswander
Middlebury College

Grad 2

Hematology/Oncology

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Ana Nunes
Wellesley College

Med 4

Susceptibility of brain cancer stem cells to antioxidants

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Joanna Olsen
Williams College

Med 3

Effects of PAP on HIV infectivity

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Keith Olsen
Williams College

Med 3

The role of PPAR-gamma and tissue transglutaminase in the pathogenesis of pulmonary fibrosis

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Salvador Pena
University of Rochester

Grad 1

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Scott A. Peslak
University of Scranton

Grad 4

Temporal kinetics of erythroid progenitors, precursors, and products in peripheral blood and bone marrow of irradiated mice.

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Rebecca L. Porter
University of Rochester

Med 3

Effects of prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) on hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) in mice

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Salvatore Priore
SUNY Geneseo

Grad 4

Characterizing RNA secondary structures in Influenza A virus using bioinformatic and experimental techniques

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Imran Punekar
Villanova University

Grad 4

Movement disorders, specifically in Deep Brain Stimulation recipients suffering from Parkinson’s and Huntington’s diseases.

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Phillip Rappold
Cornell University

Grad 3

Exploring mitochondrial dynamics as a therapeutic target in neurodegeneration

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Chris Richardson
Brigham Young University

Med 3

B-cell tolerance and autoimmunity

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Danny A. Rogers
Brigham Young University

Grad 4

NGF signaling pathways and looking at ways to target this pathway in the treatment of neuroblastoma

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Drew Scoles
University of Rochester

Grad 2

Biomedical optics and visual science

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Andrew Shubin
  • TBD
  • TBD

Med 2

Tissue engineering and development

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Aisha Siebert
Dartmouth College
  • TBD

Grad 1

Fetal basis of adult disease

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Jharon Silva
City University of New York

Grad 3

Role of prostatic acidic phosphatase (PAP) degradation in HIV infectivity

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Adam Simning
Pomona College

Med 3

Late-life psychiatric epidemiology and mental health services utilization

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Stephanie Syc
Brown University
  • TBD
  • TBD

Med 1

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Mercedes Szpunar
Loyola University

Grad 5

Women's and developmental health, and their environmental influences

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Jomy Varghese
Loyola University
  • TBD

Grad 1

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Edward Vuong
New York University

Grad 4

Developmental defects

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Emily Walters
Pittsburgh State University

Grad 1

Analysis of genomic-scale data

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Helen Shinru Wei
Barnard College

Grad 3

Astrocytic control of cerebral microcirculation

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Ethan Winkler
University of Southern California

Grad 3

Alzheimer's disease

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Michael Dacheng Wu
Carnegie Mellon University

Grad 5

Neuroinflammation