Approximately 100 students from Chicago Medical School, College of Pharmacy and Dr. William M. Scholl College of Podiatric Medicine presented research projects to the university community during the Summer Research Poster Session held Oct. 17.

Students developed their project proposals under the guidance of faculty mentors and spent eight weeks during the summer conducting research. The students then prepared scientific posters that documented their results. Sponsored by the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research, the poster session provided students the opportunity to share their findings with other students, faculty and staff. 

Award recipients and their posters include:

Chicago Medical School

First Place: Ashley Cohen, CMS ’21. “Neural Network Dysfunction in Cerebral Organoids Derived from Patients with KCNJ11 Mutations.” Mentor: Dr. Louis Philipson.

Second Place: Avni Dervishi, CMS ’21, and Sherwin Nassiri, CMS ’22. “Night Vision and Carotenoids.” Mentor: Stuart Richer, OD, PhD.

College of Pharmacy

First Place: Karen Juco, COP ’21. “Implicit Bias in Interprofessional Peer Evaluations.” Mentors: Scott Hanes, PharmD; Steven Miller, PhD; and Ziemowit Mazur, EdM, MS, PA-C.

Second Place (tie): Angelina Raimonde, COP ’20. “Evaluation of the Illinois Pre-Pharmacy Fair.” Mentors: Jamie Dillig, PharmD, and Janeen Winnike, RPh.

Second Place (tie): Yelena Sahakian and Brisilda Bylykbashi, both COP ’20. “Prescribing Patterns of Antihypertensive Medications in U.S. Ambulatory Care Settings.” Mentors: Ateequr Rahman, PhD, MBA, and Rahul Deshmukh, PhD.

Dr. William M. Scholl College of Podiatric Medicine

First Place: Matthew L. Diamond, SCPM ’21. “Identification of Biomarkers for Prediction of Healing vs. Non-Healing Chronic Diabetic Foot Ulcers.” Mentor: Marc J. Glucksman, PhD.

Second Place: Jennifer So, SCPM ’21. “Visualizing Satellite Cell Activation and Adaptation of the Neuromuscular Junction in a Resistance Training Mouse Model.” Mentor: Amanda F. Lin, DSc.