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MEDICAL RESEARCH SCHOLARS PROGRAM (MRSP)
Jane Kim University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine
Topic: Incidence and
Prevalence of Childhood
Uveitis; Mentors: H Nida Sen, M.D., MHS,
Director, Uveitis and Ocular Immunology Fellowship Program; Robert B Nussenblatt, M.D., MPH, Chief, Laboratory of Immunology, NEI
Cortlyn Brown Yale University School of Medicine
Topic: Specificity of
Familial Aggregation and Cross-transmission
of ADHD and Mood Disorder Subtypes
in a Community-based Sample; Mentor:
Kathleen Merikangas, Ph.D., Chief, Genetic
Epidemiology Research Branch, NIMH
Michael J Feldman Univ of Rochester Sch of Medicine & Dentistry Topic: Protein
Phosphatase 2A in Pediatric Brain Tumors;
Mentor: Prashant
Chittiboina, M.D., Staff Clinician, Surgical Neurology Branch, NINDS
Molly Hague UCLA, San Francisco School of Dentistry Topic: The Role of
Fibronectin and Btbd7
in Oral Squamous Cell
Carcinoma; Mentor:
Kenneth Yamada, M.D., Ph.D., Chief, Lab of Cell and Developmental Biology, NIDCR
Richard Ho Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Topic: Multiparametric
MRI Predicts Biochemical Recurrence in Men Undergoing Radical
Prostatectomy; Mentor: Peter A Pinto, M.D.,
Head, Prostate Cancer Section, Urologic Oncology Branch, NCI
Jason K Hsieh Cleveland Clinic Lerner Col of Med at Case Western Univ.
Topic: Graph Metrics of
Seizure Foci in Epilepsy;
Mentor: Kareem Zaghloul,
M.D., Ph.D., Staff Clinician, Surgical Neurology,
NINDS
Ali Jamil NYU Sch of Medicine Topic: Clinical Aspects of
Hyper IgE-Like Cohorts;
Mentor: Joshua D
Milner, M.D., Chief, Genetics & Pathogenesis
of Allergy Section, Lab of Allergic Disease, NIAID
Nikhil Jiwrajka Johns Hopkins Univ School of Medicine Topic: Evaluation of
IL-13Rα2 as a Therapeutic Target for Pulmonary
Fibrosis; Mentor: Thomas
A Wynn, Ph.D., Chief, Immunopathogenesis Section, Lab of Parasitic Diseases, NIAID
Amrita Karambelkar Icahn School of Medicine
at Mount Sinai Topic: Mechanistic Insights
into Efficient Targeting of Ewing’s Sarcoma by Ex Vivo Expanded Natural Killer Cells: Promise for Natural Killer Cell
Immunotherapy; Mentor: Richard Childs,
M.D., Sr Investigator, Lab of Transplantation
Immunotherapy; Clinical Director, NHLBI
Jennie D Leikin Tufts University School
of Dental Medicine Topic: Analysis of IsomiRs
in Lung Cancer; Mentor:
Bríd Ryan, Ph.D., M.P.H., Stadtman Investigator, Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis, Center for Cancer Research, NCI
Angela Liu Univ of California San Diego, Sch of Medicine Topic: Reproducibility
and Determinants of Colposcopic Impressions and Predictive Diagnostic
Accuracy; Mentor: Nicolas Wentzensen,
M.D., Ph.D., Sr Investigator, Epidemiology
Genetics Section, Hormonal & Reproductive
Epidemiology, NCI
Joseph Cataquiz rimando Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University Topic: Amino Acid Excess
Modulates the Phenotype
of Rapamycin-Resistant CD4+ T Cells; Mentor:
Daniel Fowler, M.D., Sr Investigator; Head, Cytokine Biology Section, Experimental Transplantation and Immunology Branch, NCI
SAMPLE OF 2014-2015 SCHOLARS’ RESEARCH TOPICS
Denise Fay Ye Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Topic: Visual Exploration
in Parkinson’s Disease
and Freezing of Gait;
Mentor: Mark Hallett, MD, Chief, Human
Motor Control Section, NINDS
Raju Chelluri SUNY Upstate Medical University Topic:
Heat Shock Protein 90 Inhibition Combined with Targeted Therapies Synergistically Affects Cytotoxicity in Bladder
Cancer Models; Mentor: Leonard M Neckers,
Ph.D., Sr Investigator, Urologic Oncology, NCI
Presley Garrison Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University
Topic: Spatial Regulation
of Bone Morphogenetic Proteins in Postnatal Growth Plate and
Articular Cartilage; Mentor: Jeffrey Baron,
M.D., Head, Section on Growth and
Development, NICHD