Madeline Dunfee, MEd,MPH MD/PhD Candidate, College of Public Health
Project: The impact of social support and perceived stress of Appalachian adults on T2DM self-management
Mentor: Nancy Schoenberg, PhD
Gregory Milburn, BS, MD/PhD Candidate, College of Medicine, Department of Physiology
Project: Effects of left ventricular assist devices on contractile function in patients with right ventricular dysfunction
Mentor: Ken Campbell, PhD
DeAnna Pinnow, MA, PhD Candidate, College of Health Sciences
Project: Assessing everyday cognition through a novel distraction dosing framework
Mentor: Peter Meulenbroek, PhD, CCC-SLP
Gabriella Pugh, MS, PhD Candidate, College of Medicine
Project: Investigating the role of B cell-T cell crosstalk in metabolism and inflammation in type 2 diabetes
Mentor: Barbara Nikolajczyk, PhD
Chi Peng, BA, PhD Candidate, College of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology
Project: Investigation of platelet mitochondrial and proteomic changes in obesity and post-bariatric surgery
Mentor: Sidney Whiteheart, PhD
Louis Rodgers, BS, MD/PhD Candidate, College of Pharmacy
Project: Repurposing FDA-approved PI3K/AKT inhibitors to improve brain uptake of anticancer drugs in GBM resection models
Mentor: Bjorn Bauer, PhD