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OSLER Program Trainees

OSLER Program Student Research Award Recipients

Each year, the Oregon Students Learn & Experience Research (OSLER) program awards a group of MD, MD/MPH, PhD, and DMD students with awards that allow them to participate in clinical and translational research projects. 

 

2012 NIH OSLER TL1 Year-long trainees:

Nathalie Javidi-Sharifi, School of Medicine, PhD in Cancer Biology Program

  • Mentor(s): Brian J. Druker, MD, Director, Knight Cancer Institute and Jeffrey W. Tyner, PhD, Assistant Professor, Hematology and Medical Oncology
  • Research Project: New therapeutic targets in gastrointestinal stromal tumor


Julia Marshall Leach, School of Medicine, PhD in Biomedical Engineering Program

  • Mentor(s): Fay B Horak, PhD, Professor, Medicine, Neurology and Tamara L Hayes, PhD, Associate Professor, Medicine, Biomedical Engineering
  • Research Project: Developing a novel method of assessing fall risk and declining cognitive and motor function in MCI


David Messenheimer,School of Medicine, PhD in Molecular Microbiology and Immunology Program

  • Mentor(s): Bernard A. Fox PhD, Adjunct Professor, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
  • Research Project: The roles of tumor immunogenicity and the adjuvant GM-CSF in the induction of regulatory T cells in multiple tumor vaccination adoptive therapies


Jaime Zelaya, Jr.,School of Medicine, MD/PhD Program

  • Mentor(s): Sandra Rugonyi, MS, PhD, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
  • Research Project: Exploring the role that wall stress plays in determining abdominal aortic aneurismal expansion rate and addressing wall stress sensitivity to wall thickness using uniform and variable wall thickness mathematical models

2012 NIH OSLER TL1 Short-term trainees:

Kasim Mirza,School of Medicine, MD Program

  • Mentor(s): Monica Hinds, PhD, Biomedical Engineering
  • Research Project: Thrombogenic characterization of induced pluripotent stem cell derived endothelial cells under conditions of variable hemodynamic conditioning

 

Mario Padilla, School of Medicine, MD Program

  • Mentor(s): Joshi Alumkal, MD, Assistant Professor, Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology
  • Research Project: Targeting LSD1 in prostate cancer


Dawn Pruett, School of Medicine, MD Program

  • Mentor(s): Terry Morgan, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Pathology and Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Research Project: Potential genetic etiology of chronic vestibulitis: pilot study            


David Putnam-Pite, School of Medicine, MD Program

  • Mentor(s): Brian Johnstone PhD, Research Director,Orthopedics and Rehabilitation
  • Research Project: Characterization of articular cartilage progenitor cell clones


Phoebe Smitasin, School of Medicine, MD Program

  • Mentor(s): Justin Cetas, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Neurological Surgery
  • Research Project: The effects of RVM dermorphin-saporin on vasospasm and cognitive impairment following SAH in rats


Josha Woodward,School of Medicine, MD Program

  • Mentor(s): William Skach, MD, Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  • Research Project: Cotranslational protein folding of iibosome-bound proteins: kinetic analysis

2012 NIH Summer OCTRI Student Awards:

Ethan Beckley, School of Medicine, MD Program

  • Mentor(s): Jeffrey Jensen, MD, MPH, Professor and Vice Chair, Obstetrics and Gynecology and Elizabeth Micks, MD, Fellow, Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Research Project: The effect of nitroglycerin on the IUD insertion experience in nulliparous women


Margaret Campbell, School of Dentistry, DMD Program

  • Mentor(s): Curtis A. Machida, PhD, Integrative Biosciences & Pediatric Dentistry
  • Research Project: Cariogenic potential of Mutans streptococci genetic strains: association of virulence genes and development of carious lesions


Xiang Gao,School of Medicine, MD Program

  • Mentor(s): Jagdeep Obhrai, MD, Assistant Professor, Medicine, Nephrology
  • Research Project: Provider-to-provider communication in the care of transplant candidates


Arthur Kehas, School of Medicine, MD Program

  • Mentor(s): Wohaib Hasan, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Research Project: Attenuation of cholinergic parasympathetic innervation in heart failure by co-projecting sympathetic nerves.


Tori Lennox,School of Medicine, MD Program

  • Mentor(s): Susan Rowell, MD, Assistant Professor, Division of Trauma, Emergency Surgery and Acute Care Surgery
  • Research Project: The use of thrombelastography in the assessment of progressive intracranial hemorrhage after traumatic brain injury


Susan Lou,School of Medicine, MD Program

  • Mentor(s): James (Jim) Rosenbaum, MD, Professor, Ophthalmology and Kevin Winthrop, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology, Infectious Disease
  • Research Project: Assessing current approaches for diagnosis and treatment of tuberculous uveitis among uveitis specialists


Poorav Patel,School of Medicine, MD Program

  • Mentor(s): Dr. Molly Kulesz-Martin, Ph.D., Professor, Director of Research
  • Research Project: Genetic variants in Trim32 and Piasy protein families associated with psoriasis


Basma Saadoun,School of Medicine, MD Program

  • Mentor(s): Peter Kurre, MD, Associate Professor, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
  • Research Project: The effect of high fat diet on the number and potency of fetal hematopoietic stem cells

Jonathan Ward,School of Medicine, MD Program

  • Mentor(s): Nabil Alkayed, MD, PhD, Professor, Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Neurological Surgery and Physiology & Pharmacology
  • Research Project: The protective effect of P450 Eicosanoids in subarachnoid hemorrhage

 

Past OSLER TL1  recipients:

 

Past OCTRI Summer Student Scholarships