Department of Medicine
Research Day 2009 Awards

Rochelle Hirschhorn Award for Research by a Student |
||
| Eric Block | Interferon-gamma (IFNγ) Inhibits Adenosine A2A Receptor Function in Hepatic Stellate Cells by Downregulating Expression of Adenylate Cyclase in a STAT1-Dependent Manner | Clinical Pharmacology |
Alan Charney Award for Research by a Resident |
||
| Stephen Carpenter | Mycobacterium tuberculosis Inhibits Antigen Presentation in Cultured Murine dendritic Cells | Infectious Diseases and Immunology |
Gerald Weissmann Award for Research by a Fellow |
||
| Wei Zhang | Dissolution of Arterial Platelet Thrombus with Human Monoclonal scFv anti-GPIIIa49-66 Ab and Its Ramification | Hematology |
Peter Elsbach Award for Research by Junior Faculty |
||
| Olga Zhdanova | Deletion of Drosha in Podocytes Leads to a Collapsing Focal Glomerular Sclerosis Indicating that MicroRNAs Are Required for Normal Podocyte Function | Nephrology |
Resarch Day Poster Awards 2009 — 1st AM Session |
||
Arthur Charles Fox Award for Poster by Student |
||
| Steven Ovadia | Autophagy is a novel innated immune defense against campylobacter jejuni | Infectious Diseases and Immunology |
Robert M. Glickman Award for Poster by Resident |
||
| Bani Chander, MD | Is upper gastrointestinal endoscopy indicated in patiens with iron deficiency anema and negative colonoscopy? | Gastroenterology |
Robert S. Holzman Award for Poster by Fellow |
||
| Zhongsheng Peng, MD, PhD | Adenosine and its receptor play a central role in ethanol-induced fatty liver | Clinical Pharmacology |
| Zev Frankel, MD | Real-time, three dimensional transesophageal echocardiography in the evaluation of thoracic aortic atherosclerosis | Cardiology |
Dorothea Zucker-Franklin Award for Poster by Jr Faculty |
||
| Vandana Khungar, MD, MSc | Post 9/11 GERD-like symptoms: Endoscopic and pathologic evaluation of a new entity | General Internal Medicine |
Resarch Day Poster Awards 2009 — 2nd AM Session |
||
Arthur Charles Fox Award for Poster by Student |
||
| Jennifer Collins | Bactericidal/permeability-increase in protein is an endogenous antimicrobial protein with efficacy against clinical isolates of multi-drug resistant gram-negative bacteria | Infectious Diseases and Immunology |
Robert M. Glickman Award for Poster by Resident |
||
| Antonio Ladd, MD | Acute cytomegalovirus and thromboembolic events: an uncommon etiology for a common clinical entity | Infectious Diseases and Immunology |
Robert S. Holzman Award for Poster by Fellow |
||
| Xiao Li, PhD | Cytokine profiling of the maternal and fetal response to LPS in Vitro | Infectious Diseases and Immunology |
Dorothea Zucker-Franklin Award for Poster by Jr Faculty |
||
| Karen Maass, PhD | Cx43 CT domain influences infarct size and susceptibility to ventricular tachyarrythmias in acute myocardial infarction | Cardiology |
Resarch Day Poster Awards 2009 — Afternoon Session |
||
Arthur Charles Fox Award for Poster by Student |
||
| Nitya Viswanathan | Role of TTX sensitive and TTX insensitive sodium channels in cardiac conduction | Cardiology |
Robert M. Glickman Award for Poster by Resident |
||
| Amit Sura, MD, MBA | Pay for perfomance: A temporary solution for improving health care quality | General Internal Medicine |
Robert S. Holzman Award for Poster by Fellow |
||
| Adam Skolnick, MD | Osteoporosis therapy prevents the progression of aortic stenosis | Cardiology |
Dorothea Zucker-Franklin Award for Poster by Jr Faculty |
||
| Antoinette Schoenthaler, EdD | Unfair treatment predicts masked hypertension in a community sample of Black and Latina/o adults | General Internal Medicine |