Augusta University
Allison Brown
The 7th Annual Medical Scholars Research Day was held on September 21, 2015 in the J. Harold Harrison, MD Education Commons. James C. Oates, MD, of the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) delivered the keynote address, “The Career of an Academic Investigator: Straight Road or Branching Path?” The talk was followed by 129 poster presentations by medical scholars. Of these, 27 were mentored by Cancer Center members:
| Wendy Bollag | Mathew Joseph | Determining the regulation of aquaporin 3 using a promoter-luciferase reporter construct |
| Lauren Marshall | Aquaporin 3 levels in mouse skin upon exposure to suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid | |
| E. Leila Clay | Mary Kate Lintel | A pilot study of vitamin D repletion shows improvement in pain and vascular endothelial function in adult patients with sickle cell disease |
| John Cowell | Frank Merlino | Protein expression as a determinant of ABT 199 and AC 220 drug potency |
| Catherine Davis | Joseph Coppiano | A new screening test for congenital color deficiency in preschoolers |
| Brittany Truitt | BMI and school readiness in preschool children | |
| Sehrish Viqar | Do quality child-care and socioeconomic status affect the educational trajectory of preschool-aged children? | |
| Michael Duncan | James McPhail | Collagen mRNA expression in TP53 mutated and non-mutated samples of hepatocellular carcinoma |
| Sharad Ghamande | David Mysona | Gene expression differences between platinum resistant and platinum sensitive ovarian cancer |
| Feng-Ming Kong | Ryan Goetz | Radiation may increase risk of cardiac events in patients with breast cancer |
| Abdullah Kutlar | Nina Kuei | Characteristics and potential biomarkers for chronic pain in patients with sickle cell disease |
| Cindy Neunert | Sadie Mason | Health-related quality of life in patients with sickle cell disease living in urban and rural Georgia: a case-control study |
| Nita Maihle | Blake Vander Wood | New method for isoform-specific detection of alternate EGFR isoforms in human placenta demonstrates differential isoform expression across trimesters |
| Lin Mei | Jiayun (Margaret) Fang | Characterizing NRG3 maturation and interaction with ERBB receptors |
| Austin Wallace | Investigating the role of LRP4 in regeneration of neuromuscular junctions | |
| Norman Pollack | Eric Ollila | Inactive matrix Gla protein is associated with arterial stiffness and vascular endothelial function in hemodialysis patients |
| Darko Pucar | Stephen Scott | Optimization of oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma staging and treatment planning with PET/contrast CE |
| Betty Pace | Amber Berry | The role of mir-144 in drug-mediated fetal hemoglobin induction in human erythroid progenitors |
| Daitoku Sakamuro | Evan Monson | BIN1 as a potential therapeutic target for acute promyelocytic leukemia |
| Patricia Schoenlein | Jason Conger | Targeting MEK/MAPK1/2 in vivo to eradicate antiestrogen resistance |
| Jin-Xiong She | Lynn Tran | Multiplex immunoassay of serum protein glycoforms for cancer biomarker discovery |
| Paul Tran | Mining the cancer genome atlas database to discover candidate serum biomarkers for clear cell renal cell carcinoma | |
| Huidong Shi | Jordan Bauer | Suppressing oncogene transcription with the Cdk7 inhibitor THZ1 disrupts cell proliferation and viability of chronic lymphocytic leukemia |
| David Terris | Wilson Omesiete | Comparison of outpatient and intraoperative parathyroid hormone levels |
| Yazdan Raji | Eye catching predictors of neurological impairments in Parkinsonian Syndromes (PS) | |
| John Vender | Rohan Gupta | Ginkgolic acid decreases glioma cell survival and may overcome chemoresistance to temozolomide |
| Gang Zhou | Thomas Hodo | Curative chemoimmunotherapy and tumor senescence: the role of anti-tumor CD4+ T cells |
