TL1 Award Recipients

2015

Tej Azad (MD Candidate)

School of Medicine
Project: Consensus Gene Signature of Human Macrophage Polarization - Implications for Human Disease
Mentor(s): Purvesh Khatri, MD

Cassie Ludwig (MD Candidate)

School of Medicine
Project: Global Universal Eye Screening Tests (GUEST): Assessing the Reliability and Validity of Telemedicine in Screening International Newborns for Ophthalmic Disease
Mentor(s): Neil Gesundheit, MD

Chloe O'Connell (MD Candidate)

School of Medicine
Project: The role of rare, high-impact variants in mothers of children with autism
Mentor (s): Dennis Wall, MD

Daniel Rogan (MD Candidate)

School of Medicine
Project: Use of the Stanford STRIDE Database to Evaluate Emergency Medicine Diagnostic Imaging Outcomes and Cost
Mentor (s): James Quinn, MD

Zachary A. Corbin, M.D., M.H.S

Fellow, Neurology and Neurological Sciences
Project: Using hyperpolarized 13C magnetic resonance spectroscopy to study metabolic signatures after bevacizumab treatment of glioblastoma
Mentor(s): Lawrence Recht

Lily Ming-Sha Horng, M.D., M.P.H.

Medical Fellow, Infectious Diseases & Geographic Medicine
Project: Developing evidence-based infection control and pandemic prevention programs in hospitals in low-resource countries
Mentor(s): Stephen P. Luby

2014

Yana Emmy Hoy-Schulz, Ph.D.

Project: Tolerability and Physiologic Effects of Oral Probiotics Lactobacillus reuteri DSM 17938 and Bifidobacterium logum infantis in Bangladeshi Infants.
Mentor(s): Drs. Stephen Luby and Yvonne Maldonado

Christine Nguyen, B.S.

Medical Student, Medicine, Clinical Excellence Research Center
Project: Cleft Palate Repaire: An evaluation on Length of Stay, Complications, & Costs by Hospital Type
Mentor(s): Drs. Catherine Curtin and Rita Popat

John Openshaw, M.D.

Fellow, Med/ Infectious Disease
Project: Predictive modeling of infectious diseases in Bangladesh
Mentor(s): Drs. Stephen Luby and Julie Parsonnet

Andrew South, M.D.

Postdoctoral Medical fellow, Pediatrics- Nephrology
Project: Subclinical Injury in Pediatric Renal Transplant Patients: ACE2 and Ang-(1-7) as Novel Biomarkers
Mentor(s): Drs. Paul Grimm, Alan Pao, and Glenn Chertow

Kara Brower, B.S.

Masters of Medicine, PhD Student in Bioengineering
Project: Novel microfluidic platforms for "one to one" encoding of individual spectra to peptides on beads for combinatorial libraries as applied to drug variant testing
Mentor(s): Dr. Manu Prakash

Darwin Yi, B.S.

Masters of Medicine, PhD Student in Bioinformatics
Project: Using Image Processing and Feature Detection to Classify Cardiomyopathy Images

2013

Yana Emmy Hoy-Schulz, Ph.D.

Project: Tolerability and Physiologic Effects of Oral Probiotics Lactobacillus reuteri DSM 17938 and Bifidobacterium logum infantis in Bangladeshi Infants.
Mentor(s): Dr. Stephen Luby

Rupa Narayan, M.D.

Project: Identification of autologous and allogeneic CD4+ and CD8+ T cell responses to neoepitopes in Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)
Mentor(s): Drs. Medeiros and Levy

Suki Padda, M.D.

Project: Phase 1 study of MPDL3280A (PD-L1 inhibitor) + GDC-0973 (MEK inhibitor) in KRAS mutated Non-small Cell Lung-Cancer and BRAF or RAS mutated solid tumors
Mentor(s): Dr. Heather Wakelee

Andrew South, M.D.

Project: Subclinical Injury in Pediatric Renal Transplant Patients: ACE2 and Ang-(1-7) as Novel Biomarkers
Mentor(s): Drs. Paul Grimm and Alan Pao