Congratulations 2023 RAD award winners

Oral Presentation Award

  • First Place, Jonna Smith, A new rodent model of preeclampsia: Pregnant daughters from hypertensive placental ischemic moms have hypertension
  • Second Place, K. Austin Davis, Induced Blood Flow Oscillations at 0.1 Hz Protects Oxygenation of Severely Ischemic Tissue

Postdoctoral Poster Presentation

  • First Place, Julio Rincon, Microfluidic Chip for the evaluation of therapeutics and carrier drugs in breast cancer tissue
  • Second Place, Rucha Trivedi, Annexin A2 in tumor-derived extracellular vesicles: Molecular contributions in metastatic triple negative breast cancer

Center for Heathy Aging

  • Sampada Chaudhari, The impact of tyrosine hydroxylase loss on dopamine signaling during nigrostriatal neuron loss in a rat Parkinson’s disease model

North Texas Eye Research Institute Graduate Student Award

  • First Place, Kim-Tuyen T. Le, The Neuroprotective Effects of Hybrid SA-10 Nanoparticles in a Glaucoma Mouse Model of Retinal Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury
  • Second Place, R. Max Petty, Development of Reconstituted High-Density Lipoprotein Nanoparticles Utilizing Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer for Ocular Applications

Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Genetic Award

  • First Place, Christoffer Lambring, Targeting Sp1 in Ewing Sarcoma: A multi-approach method for the utilization of Mithramycin
  • Second Place, Christopher Baker, Analysis of Key Cellular Changes of Triple Negative Breast Cancer Cells in Response to Kinase-Inhibiting BI2536 and Associated Derivatives

Department of Pharmaceutical & Pharmacotherapy Award

  • First Place, Jaylen Mans, Impact of pH modulation and NaDC micellular behavior on Amphotericin B solubility
  • Second Place, Meredith Garrett, Pharmacokinetic and Physicochemical Evaluation of Novel Drug Candidates for Retinitis Pigmentosa

Department of Pharmacology & Neuroscience Award

  • First Place, Oanh Trinh, Development of a mouse model to study the long-term effects of chemotherapy on brain function
  • Second Place, Ammar Kapic, LABEL-FREE QUANTITATIVE PROTEOMICS REVEAL PROTEIN NETWORKS AND ASSOCIATED BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES IN ANDROGEN DEPRIVED MOUSE SEMINAL VESICLES IN RESPONSE TO 17-β-ESTRADIOL (E2) TREATMENT

Department of Physiology & Anatomy-Integrative Physiology Program Award

  • First Place, Dianna Nguyen, Visium Spatial Transcriptomics Reveal Sex Differences in Supraoptic Nucleus Gene Expression of Adult Rats Related to Cell Signaling and Ribosomal Pathways
  • Second Place, Viet Dinh, Effect of Sigma-1 Receptor Activation on Renal Injury and Hypertension in Female Mice with Lupus

Department of Physiology & Anatomy-Structural Anatomy & Rehabilitation Sciences Award

  • First Place, Javan Stalls, Contrast-enhanced micro-CT approaches for visualizing musculoskeletal development in neonatal mice
  • Second Place, Courtney Miller, Cranial Bone Ossification Trajectories in a Mouse Model of Osteogenesis Imperfecta

2023 Medical Student Government Association Best of DO/PhD Dual Degree Students

  • Dianna Nguyen, Visium Spatial Transcriptomics Reveal Sex Differences in Supraoptic Nucleus Gene Expression of Adult Rats Related to Cell Signaling and Ribosomal Pathways