Please join us in congratulating this year’s Research Excellence Award winners! These 13 presenters were chosen from the 129 abstracts submitted for the BRI Fall Poster Session. Please join us at the kickoff from 2:00-2:15pm in the Marshall A. Wolf Conference Center (3rd floor, Hale BTM Building), where the winners will be receiving their awards.
Visit our poster site to read the abstracts from both the award winners and all our other presenters, including where they will be displayed on November 7th.
Connors-BRI Research Excellence Award
Emily Rosado, MA, Research Assistant, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine: Racial and Ethnic Differences in Pain and Opioid Consumption after Cesarean Delivery
BRI Research Excellence Award
Isabel Valenbreder, MPhil, Technical Research Assistant, Neurology: Sex-Dependent APOE4 Neutrophil-Microglia Interactions Drive Cognitive Impairment in Alzheimer’s Disease via the IL-17F/IL-17RA Axis
Arpita Banerjee, MS, Research Trainee, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine: Pathogen Capture and Neutralizing Nasal Spray to Prevent Respiratory Infections
Mehmet Furkan Burak, MD, Instructor, Medicine: An Adipo-Pulmonary Axis Mediated by FABP4 Hormone Defines a Target Against Obesity-Induced Airway Disease
Sarvesh Chelvanambi, PhD, Research Fellow, Medicine: HIV-Nef Extracellular Vesicles Utilize the Novel Btk-Nfκb-Mertk Signaling Axis to Impair Macrophage Efferocytosis And Promote Atherosclerosis: a Multiomics Study
Grace Cooke, BHS, Clinical Research Assistant, Neurology: SocialBit: A Novel Smartwatch Sensor to Detect Social Interaction Frequency in Stroke Survivors
Isabella Demiroska, Intern, Psychiatry: Investigating Suicide Risk and Attempts in Behavioral, Cognitive Scores, and White Matter Tract Measures Using the ABCD Study
Braden Eberhard, BS, Data Scientist, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology: Novel Machine Learning Models for Predicting Maternal Risk of Postpartum Hemorrhage
Jessica Harder, AB, MD, Instructor, Psychiatry: Urinary Phthalate Metabolites in Relation to Cognitive Performance among Premenopausal Women and Variation by Estrogenic Status
Sophiette Hong, Research Trainee, Pathology: Role of DNA Hydroxymethylation in SNAIL-Mediated EMT-like Melanoma Cell trans-differentiation
Kathryn Lyon, BS, Technical Research Assistant, Pathology: PRIMED: Protein-Biomarkers Integrated with Mammography for Enhanced Diagnosis
Shruti Rawal, PhD, Research Associate, Medicine: Therapeutic Delivery of Mir-369-3p Promotes Atherosclerosis Regression in Diabetic Mice By Regulating Bone Marrow Myeloid Progenitors
Brijendra Singh, PhD, Research Fellow, Neurology: Complement C3 Lowering in Conditional Knockout APP;C3iko Mice: Protection Against Age-Associated Cognitive Decline