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University of Maryland School of Medicine

MSTP 2018-2019

11 first year medical students

8 MD-PhD students matched to research supportive residencies

5 PhDs defended theses and returned to medical school

PUBLICATIONS Our students are hard at work researching and writing. What

have they discovered?

OUR FIRST YEAR MEDICAL STUDENTS

Read a little bit about our first year medical students….

AWARDS

F i n d o u t w h a t a w a r d s , G r a n t s , a n d o t h e r e f f o r t s

o u r s t u d e n t s a r e b e i n g r e c o g n i z e d f o r o u t s i d e o f

t h e U M S O M

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STUDENTS

In the news…

Da’Kuawn Johnson was recently featured in

a blog on what motivates and drives the

next generation of leaders: Below is an

excerpt:

Q: Are there any unique or special aspects of your organization

that contribute to a positive workplace culture?

A: I believe the unique aspect of my current position is that I am

surrounded by people who genuinely love what they do, and it is

not simply a job. [continued on page 27]

is in her first year of graduate school and

was recently featured in a blog called

BlackGirlMedicine. Here is an excerpt:

When I was 8, I decided I wanted to be a doctor. The adults that I

interacted with regularly reinforced that dream. But at 17, I had no

idea how to accomplish my goal. After I graduated from high

school, I joined the Army. I ended up serving for ten years.

[continued on page 27]

Adrienne Kambouris

Da’Kuawn Johnson

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The conventional meaning of “treatment” does not account for the flexibility

and humility it takes to take care of patients with

conditions that challenge a physician’s line of

reasoning.

-Michael Sikorksi

Michael Sikorksi Receives Award for Essay Global Genes celebrates these recipients and all of the medical students who participated in the Cox Scholarship this year. We also want to thank the patients and families connected with Foundation Alliance members who opened up their homes and lives to help future physicians learn more and develop compassion for the daily challenges facing the rare community. From January to June, Michael participated in the Global Genes David R. Cox Scholarship for Rare Compassion program, where he was matched with a patient with a rare genetic condition and their family. The following is an excerpt from an essay written about the experience: Hi, I am a second-year MD-PhD student and I am eager to share with you my experience meeting the White family. Like all medical students, my dream is to someday become a good doctor – a smart, kind, and good doctor. In medical school, I am learning how to begin with a patient’s chief complaint,

elicit a history of the present illness, conduct a physical examination, differentiate the probable diagnosis amongst all possibilities, and propose an assessment and plan of care according to evidence-based medicine. The star of the following story, Sarah White, carries seven diagnoses: pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorder associated with streptococcus (PANDAS), encephalopathy, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), autoimmune thyroid disease, scoliosis, small fiber polyneuropathy (SFPN), and chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuritis (CIDP). I wonder if a good doctor can read that list, recreate the patient in their mind, and pinpoint the right treatment protocol. The full essay can be found at: https://globalgenes.org/2018-david-r-cox-scholarship-for-rare-compassion-recipients/

2018 DAVID R . COX SCHOLARSHIP FOR RARE COMPASSION RECIP IENT

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Scenes from MSTP life

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Infectious Diseases Society of America Foundation Medical Scholars Program Whether stopping worldwide outbreaks or uncovering that rare condition that eluded the primary care team, ID physicians save lives. Thanks to advances in the field, these proverbial “medical detectives” have also help to make it safe for us to have routine surgery, receive chemotherapy treatment, survive organ transplants and much more. With the rate of infectious diseases outpacing the number of new ID physicians entering the field, the IDSA Foundation is taking a forward-thinking approach to building a pipeline of tomorrow’s ID leaders. That’s why the IDSA developed the Medical Scholars Program. Through this highly rated program, the IDSA provides first, second or third-year medical students with access to an ID research experience designed to spark intellectual curiosity and inspire the pursuit of a career in the field of infectious diseases. Selected scholars are sponsored by an IDSA Member or Fellow, such as Dr. Roghmann, our current director, to advance ongoing research, initiate new studies, or explore other concepts within the field of infectious diseases outside of their primary institution. Eligible categories include: Clinical Infectious Diseases, Clinical Research, Epidemiology, International Health, Laboratory Research, Medical Education and/or Prevention. Selected awardees receive a $2,000 grant and a FREE one-year membership to IDSA.

Kieran

Tebben

Analysis of the

Dynamics of

Recurrent

Malaria

Infection in Infants in the First Two

Years of Life

Kristen

Brao

The Role of the

Host Immune

Response in

Differential

Selection of Staphylococcus

aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa in

a B-ENaC Murine Model of Cystic

Fibrosis

Michael

Sikorski Environmental

surveillance

using Moore

swabs for the

detection of Salmonella Typhi in Upolu,

Samoa

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MARK KVARTA TALKS ABOUT…

A GLIMPSE OF A RESEARCH TRACK RESIDENCY Mark Kvarta, MD, PhD, MSTP class of 2017 I graduated from the MSTP after an 8 year journey as part of the class of 2017. I completed the Program in Neuroscience with my thesis focused on the opposing effects of chronic stress and antidepressants on synaptic function in the hippocampus and behavioral phenotypes in rodent models of depression. Selecting a specialty to pursue in residency, or even deciding whether to do a residency, varies in difficulty and complexity by individual. You'll get heaps of advice about this along the way from many different perspectives; it may help to remember that the advice-giver is also just one individual along this spectrum, and I am no exception. For me, I had been leaning somewhere between neurology and psychiatry for most of my training, with psychiatry fully solidifying as my life choice during my MS3 year.

Figuring out where you want to go for residency can be a bear. The next decision after selecting your desired specialty may be to consider to what extent you hope to continue to pursue research during this next phase of your training. The exact format of what this might look like also will vary based on specialty and whether it is a formal "research track," whether there are opportunities to make it research intensive, (i.e. primarily through elective time or other special considerations in a general track) or simply whether a program will encourage you to squeeze research in on your nights and weekends and then hope to take credit for supporting you while whispering that you should just wait and do a fellowship. Even within psychiatry, I had the chance to observe each of these approaches on the interview trail. Some residencies will have a single general program into which you will apply before moving into a research track after intern year, others will have a separate code in ERAS and a separate application to fill out from the general residency from the outset. Some will have a well-oiled track to send you on, while others don’t have much recommended structure at all. Obviously there are positives and negatives to each approach.

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I was lucky enough to land in my top choice in the newly created "Physician Scientist Training Program" open only to MD/PhDs in the joint UMMC/Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital psychiatry program as the inaugural trainee. Incidentally the general psychiatry residency is one of the largest psych programs in the country--class size being yet another thing to consider when making your match list with its own pros and cons along with geography, hospital(s) covered size and scope, exposure to different training settings, how researchers are treated in training, actual research opportunities available, call schedules, moonlighting/extra training opportunities, departmental focus, vacation time, family leave policies, whether parking and food are free, educational stipends, whether the program will pay for your license, gut feeling, etc., etc., etc. I will write the most here about that which I best know - the research track program I am currently in. Most psychiatry residencies start with a built-in intern year that includes about half of a year of not-psychiatry, and programs are generally 4 years total. The UMMC/SEPH program includes 3 months of medicine (done at Mercy alongside their prelims), 2 months of neurology (at UMMC and the VA) and 1 month of emergency medicine at UMMC (either adult or pediatric). Within the 6 months of psychiatry as a 1st year resident (PGY1), you typically switch service or site every 4-6 weeks. My experience included substance abuse psychiatry (both inpatient and outpatient), an inpatient psychosis unit at SEPH, an inpatient treatment-refractory psychosis unit at Spring Grove Hospital in Catonsville, child psychiatry (day hospital, inpatient, and outpatient), and the infamous Psychiatry Emergency Services-a locked emergency department unit for patients who are acutely suicidal, psychotic, or in psychiatric crisis in some way. As a PGY2, I have 3 months of protected research time with no call, sandwiched between 9 months of inpatient and consult/liaison psychiatry duties. In my third year of residency I will have 20% research time throughout the year (~1 day per week) but a normal senior call schedule (which is generally light anyway - 2-3 overnight or 24-28 hour shifts per month); this will be integrated alongside my

outpatient clinic schedule which is the balance of PGY3 time. Finally as a PGY4 I will have up to 80% time for research and electives, again with a typical senior call schedule. Hopefully I'll be in a good place to be applying for independent research funding as I near the end of residency. Additional benefits of the program includes some additional funding from the department for research as needed on a case-by-case basis above that already provided for general residents for educational funds and presenting at conferences. The stated goal for this program is to produce physician-scientists that an academic psychiatric department would want to hire as faculty. From my point of view I would hopefully be in a good position to negotiate a startup package that will give me both protected research time along with a desirable clinical duty schedule. If anyone has any questions from general to very specific about any stage in training, further advice about residency planning, the joys and challenges of having a baby immediately before intern year, or financial planning going into residency (with or without daycare bills!), feel free to email me. Best of luck in your training!

So, what exactly are the benefits

of being in the research track,

specifically? I had 2 weeks during

the 6-month psych block in which I

could dedicate to research as I

saw fit, as something unique to the

research track. The goal was to lay

some groundwork for bigger

chunks of time for PGY2 year and

beyond.

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Meet our First Year MEDICAL STUDENTS

Maddy Alizadeh

University of Maryland, College Park

Ken Brandon II

Oakwood University & the Universityof

Alabama in Huntsville

Matthew Eason

Univeristy of Maryland, College Park

Casey Hostaeder

Lehigh University

Aishu Iyer

University of Maryland Baltimore County

Katie Kruk

Grand Valley State University

Mitch Moyer

University of Pittsburgh

Chimdiya Onwuke

University of Maryland Baltimore County

Justin Schumacher

University of Rochester

Erin Wildermuth

American University

London School of Economics

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Maddy Alizadeh is a very proud UMD

alum (go Terps!!!) and

was heavily involved

in recruitment for the

University and in the

Iranian community

(both on and off

campus) during her

years there. While

there, she also did

research in a

trypanosome

transcriptomics lab on

campus for the last 3

years, while her first 2.5

years of research

were done in a transgenics lab at NIMH.

WHY I CAME TO MSTP AT

MARYLAND… I want to do a

bioinformatics heavy PhD, and Maryland has

an excellent program/opportunities for

students interested in computational biology.

It's also very close to home, and I loved the

people I met and the vibe I got when I visited.

I feel so lucky to have found such a perfect

program!

Aishwarya “Aishu” Iyer

came to MSTP from

UMBC where she

received a B.S. in

Biochemistry and

Molecular Biology. In

addition to being a

Meyerhoff Scholar and

student athlete in tennis,

she founded a student

organization called

PHLEx (Physical Health

Lifestyle Excellence) to

educate students about

resources on campus to

lead a healthier lifestyle.

WHAT DREW YOU TO

MEDICINE? As an athlete, I had a lot

of injuries (fractured elbow, fractured feet,

sprains, etc.). But the most impactful one

was when I tore my retina playing tennis at

the age of 15, and my retinal specialist really

supported me through a scary experience.

Within five days of the injury, he performed

surgery to prevent retinal detachment and

the possibility of blindness.

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Mitchell Moyer went to

the University of Pittsburgh for undergrad dual majoring in

neuro/psych. He was heavily involved in research while

there, working in a lab elucidating the effects of omega-

3 fatty acid dietary deficiency on dopamine anatomy.

He also was involved in a clinical research program

called the Multidisciplinary Acute Care Research

Organization (MACRO) designed to help physicians at

UPMC facilitate the enrollment of patients from the

ED/ICUs into clinical trials.

Erin Wildermuth grew up in

a military-turned-state-department family, moving every

couple of years. She compeleted her undergrad degree

at American University in International Relations, a

master’s degree in International Political Economy from

the London School of Economics, and completed her

medical school prerequisites at Pima Community

College in Tucson, AZ years later. [ continued pg. 11]

Maddy Alizadeh: Gut and Reproductive Biome Ken Brandon II: Macrophages, proteolytic enzymes, drug delivery Matthew Eason: Cancer biology and metastasis Casey Hostaeder: immunology, microbiology, and host-microbe interactions Aishu Iyer: Biochemical and biophysical approaches to investigate structure-function relationships of vital biomolecules in disease pathology Da’Kuawn Johnson: Metabolic disorders such as diabetes and the role that microbiome could play Katie Kruk: Neural networks and optimizing imaging techniques to detect abnormalities

1ST YEAR RESEARCH INTERESTS

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Casey Hofstaeder is from Richboro, Pennsylvania, a small town

just north of Philadelphia. He went to Lehigh

University and majored in Biology and

French.

During his time there, Casey played the

viola in the university orchestra and had a

radio show.

This past summer, Casey went to Argentina,

Chile and Peru. In South Amercia, he hiked,

ate a ton of food, and drank great wine.

WHAT DREW YOU TO

SCIENCE & MEDICINE? “Initially, I was

drawn to the

concrete

nature of

science;

however, my

interest in

science

persisted

because of the

many gaps in knowledge and questions to

be addressed. I was initially drawn to

medicine, because of the humanistic and

technical aspects of the field.”

Erin Wildermuth [continued] WHAT DREW YOU TO

SCIENCE & MEDICINE? I was

drawn to science by the opportunity to

contribute to society, and to medicine by

the opportunity to make a difference

individually, on a more personal level.

Mitch Moyer: the underlying biological mechanisms behind psychiatric and neurodegenerative disease, and the compensatory response of the dopamine system to cell death during pre-symptomatic development of Parkinson's disease Chimdiya Onwukwe: Nicotine addiction, Traumatic brain/spinal cord injury Justin Schumaker: biomedical engineering and medical imaging Erin Wildermuth: Aging

MORE RESEARCH INTERESTS

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Ken Brandon II Ken did a dual degree program

at Oakwood University and the

University of Alabama in Huntsville

in Chemical Engineering and

Chemistry. The environment at my

schools provided comfort to get

involved in all sorts of things like

student government, basketball

intramurals, pianist for musical

groups, clubs, and student

mentorship.

W H A T DR EW Y O U T O

S CI EN C E & MED IC IN E?

A range of things drew me to

science: the thought process

involved, the range of material

discussed (from thermodynamics

to photosynthesis), the

quantitative component (I LOVE

MATH), and the way it explains

our development and behaviors.

What drew me to medicine was

that it was a vehicle in which

science could be applied to

address some of the most

vulnerable positions/situations any

of us will face as humans.

In his own words...

I wouldn’t say I am most religious. In fact, I

know I am not. However, I do consider myself to

be a spiritual person. The reason I believe this

is relevant, especially as it relates to me and

medicine, is that it provides my basis for how I

view myself (as a servant) and how I view

others. It lays not only the foundation for my

moral beliefs, but it also speaks to my experience

mentoring for my last two years in college.

I had thechance to mentor Jeremiah Hall, an

eight-year-old. I would stop by his school during

recess or lunch time, occasionally bringing his

favorite candy bar, HERSHEY’S Cookies ‘n’

Crème. Over time, I found myself bringing more

than one as some of the other third graders

became comfortable enough to ask. I did not

mind. My favorite pastime was the swing set. I

still do not know how he was able to jump off

higher than me. During lunch, we had the best

conversations. He liked math; I liked math. As

our relationship grew, I could see beyond his

quiet demeanor and see his unselfishness. He said

that if he could change anything, he would make

the world a nicer

place.

I would agree.

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Katie Kruk joins the UMD program

direct from NIH where she was working on a post-

baccalaureate research in retinal circuitry. Katie

graduated from Grand Valley State University in

Michigan where she majored in physics and minored

in mathematics (for fun). At Grand Valley, Katie was

a founding member of the Women in STEM Fields

Club as well as on the executive board of the Physics

Club and Pre-MD/PhD Club. She also tutored at the

university tutoring center in physics, chemistry organic

chemistry, and biology.

THAT MOMENT WHEN MEDICINE

BECAME PART OF A

FUTURE PATH… I decided to volunteer at the

hospital, and I truly began to

have a desire to study medicine

when an older woman walked in the gift shop at the

hospital one night, looking very distraught, and

appearing as though she was searching for

something in particular. After a couple of minutes of

her searching seemingly aimlessly, I asked her, "Is

there anything I can help you find?" She paused for a

second and looked me directly in the eye,

responding with, "What do you buy your mother who

is dying? I was speechless for about a minute as I

thought about how to answer her question, or if there

even was an answer to her question.

Maddy is a classically trained singer and almost did a dual program with a conservatory for undergrad. She also does traditional Iranian singing. Erin and her husband met while working as underwater videographers in Thailand. Their new favorite place is the Baltimore aquarium, with our two-year-old in tow. Aishu has a black belt in karate and has been a vegetarian all her life. When Mitch lived in Germany, he managed to go to several soccer games, including a Champions League Semi-Final Match between Bayern Munich and Real Madrid, and was there when Germany won the World Cup. Justin built his own lightsaber for use in fencing (see right).

FUN FACTS

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Matthew Eason went to undergrad at the University of Maryland, College

Park. He obtained a dual degree, both B.S., with majors in

Biochemistry and Cell Biology/Genetics. Matthew also

completed the Honors Integrative Life Sciences Program,

graduated as a member of Phi Delta Epsilon’s professional

pre-medical fraternity, served as secretary of a veterans

and active duty member military support organization

called Terps for Service Members, and served as president

of the Christian college missions group Terps for Christ.

A really big part of my life

was changed almost one year ago

when I visited a small town

outside Quito, Ecuador. While

working as a counselor for a

Christian missions camp for

underprivileged children, the

cultural bubble formed by 21

previous years of living in the

exact same place was finally

shattered. After seeing what

impacted me as an entirely new

level of domestic abuse and

poverty, nonetheless among

children, an additional dream to

apply my physician scientist

training to aid children in

underprivileged Spanish speaking

populations is also a huge interest

of mine following my MD/PhD

training here at the University of

Maryland.

Matthew Eason, first year medical student

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Chimdiya Onwukwe Joins us from UMBC, where she was a Meyerhoff Scholar majoring in Biological Sciences.

Chimdiya got her first serious taste for research at a summer research internship at the University

of Chicago studying the neural pathways involved in nictoine aversion. She later leapt into

research on the biocompatability of hemostatic nanoparticples designed to reduce internal

bleeding.

Chimdiya kept involved as an undergraduate with her volunteer work with a refugee youth

project, the Gender Women’s Empowerment Committee, UMBC student government, and

Bethel Campus Fellowship.

Justin Schumacher

Hails from the University of Rochester where he earned a M.S.

in Biomedical Engineering and a BS in Biomedical

Engineering (Biosignals and Biosystems). His senior design

project was conducted working with an industry parter on

hyperspectral imaging for clinical sepsis detection.

Justin put his engineering skills to work not just in the lab, but also as the Chief Engineer of WRUR

radio station at the University of Rochester, where he also hosted an improv radio show for five

years.

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Students receiving F30 or F31 Grants

Ruth L. Kirschstein Individual Predoctoral National Research Service Award for MD/PhD and other Dual Degree Fellowships (F30) and Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Predoctoral Fellowship to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research (F31)

The purpose of this F30 program is to enhance the integrated research and

clinical training of promising predoctoral students, who are matriculated in a

combined MD/PhD or other dual-doctoral degree training program, and who

intend careers as physician-scientists or other clinician-scientists. The purpose of

the F31 program is to enhance the diversity of the health-related research

workforce by supporting the research training of predoctoral students from

population groups that have been shown to be underrepresented in the

biomedical, behavioral, or clinical research workforce. The proposed mentored

research training is expected to clearly enhance the individual's potential to

develop into a productive, independent research scientist. Our students are

encouraged to apply for these competitive grants to both receive funding as

well as have experience writing research grants to further their career as a

physician scientist.

Current Students:

Nathan Roberts

Allison Arai

Sai Divakaruni

Joshua Brown

Sarah Aronson

Philip Smith

2018 Graduates:

Sarah Boudova

Haiwen Chen

Tuo Peter Li

Kristi Charkrabarti

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SUMMER RETREAT 2018

PhD Dissertations in 2018 Molly Hritzo Ahye “Differential FOXO1 localization in SLE and health human lymphocyte subsets” Microbiology and Immunology PhD program Joshua Brown “Structures and functions of the HIV-1 RNA genome” Biochemistry PhD program Sai Sachin Divakaruni “The regulation and role of dendritic mitochondrial fission during long-term potentiation” Neuroscience PhD program Nathan Roberts “Repurposing oxaliplatin for the treatment of glioblastoma” Molecular Medicine PhD program Andrew Wescott “Cardiac Ca2+ signals: from local elevations, a matrix of potential” Molecular Medicine PhD program

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UCLA EyeSTAR Program, Opthalmolgy, Elise Ma, MD, PhD

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pathology, Jeff Kleinberger, MD, PhD

University of Colorado Medical Center, Internal Medicine/Physician Scientist Track, Haley Simpson, MD, PhD

University of Maryland Medical Center, Family Medicine, L. Latey Bradford, MD, PhD

Univesity of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Internal Medicine—Women’s Health Track, Sara Stockman, MD, PhD

University of Maryland Medical Center, Neurosurgery, Jesse Stokum, MD, PhD

University of Minnesota Medical Center, Internal Medicine, Alexander Tsai, MD, PhD

2019 MSTP Match Day

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Stanford University School of Medicine, Pediatrics/Medical Genetics, Christina Tise, MD, PhD

Harvard Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Anthony Park, MD, PhD

Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Internal Medicine—ABIM Research Path (Infectious Disesases), Jeffery Freiberg, MD, PhD

Indiana University School of Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Sarah Boudova, MD, PhD

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Internal Medicine (Gastroenterology), Kristi Chakrabarti, MD, PhD

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Pedatric Neurology, Haiwen Chen, MD, PhD

New York University School of Medicine, Neurological Surgery, David Kurland, MD, PhD

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Orthopedic Surgery, Peter Li, MD, PhD

2018 MSTP Match Day

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RALLY

For Medical Research…

By Michael Lee The Rally for Medical Research was held this year on September 12th and 13th, the same day that the House and Senate committees were meeting to reconcile the two different LHHS Funding bills passed in each chamber. The first day of the event was focused on training the rally attendees in preparation for visiting congressional hill the next day. One aspect of the rally that really stood out to me was how focused and organized it was. It was not just a general call for supporting medical research. Instead, the training day focused on the basics of how a bill becomes a law (with all the Schoolhouse Rock references one could hope for), how to speak with elected officials and their aides to most effectively get your message across, and the NIH funding levels passed by the House and Senate (the Senate funding level was greater than the House).

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The training also covered the unique situation that occurred this year with the merging of the LHHS and Defense funding bills and how that would alter our approach. Finally, the training covered the message of the rally, which was to ensure the NIH funding level passed in the Senate bill was the number included in the final bill. This provided a specific action to request of our elected officials as opposed to the more vague request to support medical research. The second day involved everyone getting into assigned groups based on congressional district and heading over to congressional hill for meetings. The Rally organizers had already dealt with scheduling all the meetings and provided easy an easy to understand schedule with maps to ensure we were all able to find our way between offices. The meetings themselves would involve meeting either the elected official themselves or their health policy aide where one or two members of our group would tell stories from either a patient’s or researcher’s perspective before making our request. Ultimately, as someone who has never really been involved in science policy or visited the offices of elected officials, I found the experience contributed greatly to my understanding of how policy and funding decisions are made. I hope the University of Maryland MSTP continues to send members to the Rally for Medical Research every year as the decisions made in DC can have a huge impact on what we are able to do in the lab and clinic.

Talia Guardia at SACNAS “Interrogating the tumor and metastatis suppresor function of giant oscurins in breast cancer” was presented at the Society for the Advancement of Chicano and Native Americans in Science in October 2018.

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Student Publications 2018-2019 Age-related changes in the gut microbiota influence systemic inflammation and stroke outcome.

Spychala MS, Venna VR, Jandzinski M, Doran SJ, Durgan DJ, Ganesh BP, Ajami NJ, Putluri N, Graf J, Bryan

RM, McCullough LD.

Ann Neurol. 2018 Jul;84(1):23-36. doi: 10.1002/ana.25250. Epub 2018 Jul 18.

Amplified parabrachial nucleus activity in a rat model of trigeminal neuropathic pain.

Uddin O, Studlack P, Akintola T, Raver C, Castro A, Masri R, Keller A.

Neurobiol Pain. 2018 Jan-Jul;3:22-30. doi: 10.1016/j.ynpai.2018.02.002. Epub 2018 Mar 1.

Chronic Alterations in Systemic Immune Function after Traumatic Brain Injury.

Ritzel RM, Doran SJ, Barrett JP, Henry RJ, Ma EL, Faden AI, Loane DJ.

J Neurotrauma. 2018 Jul 1;35(13):1419-1436. doi: 10.1089/neu.2017.5399. Epub 2018 May 3.

Comparing effects of CDK inhibition and E2F1/2 ablation on neuronal cell death pathways in vitro and

after traumatic brain injury.

Aubrecht TG, Faden AI, Sabirzhanov B, Glaser EP, Roelofs BA, Polster BM, Makarevich O, Stoica BA.

Cell Death Dis. 2018 Nov 6;9(11):1121. doi: 10.1038/s41419-018-1156-y.

Concurrent Inhibition of Pim and FLT3 Kinases Enhances Apoptosis of FLT3-ITD Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Cells through Increased Mcl-1 Proteasomal Degradation.

Kapoor S, Natarajan K, Baldwin PR, Doshi KA, Lapidus RG, Mathias TJ, Scarpa M, Trotta R, Davila E, Kraus

M, Huszar D, Tron AE, Perrotti D, Baer MR.

Clin Cancer Res. 2018 Jan 1;24(1):234-247. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-17-1629. Epub 2017 Oct 26.

Cross-species transcriptional analysis reveals conserved and host-specific neoplastic processes in

mammalian glioma.

Connolly NP, Shetty AC, Stokum JA, Hoeschele I, Siegel MB, Miller CR, Kim AJ, Ho CY, Davila E, Simard

JM, Devine SE, Rossmeisl JH, Holland EC, Winkles JA, Woodworth GF.

Sci Rep. 2018 Jan 19;8(1):1180. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-19451-6

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Current and Future Perspectives on Skin Tissue Engineering: Key Features of Biomedical Research,

Translational Assessment, and Clinical Application.

Yu JR, Navarro J, Coburn JC, Mahadik B, Molnar J, Holmes JH 4th, Nam AJ, Fisher JP.

Adv Healthc Mater. 2019 Feb 1:e1801471. doi: 10.1002/adhm.201801471. [Epub ahead of print] Review.

Design and Synthesis of Potent HIV-1 Protease Inhibitors Containing Bicyclic Oxazolidinone Scaffold as

the P2 Ligands: Structure-Activity Studies and Biological and X-ray Structural Studies.

Ghosh AK, Williams JN, Ho RY, Simpson HM, Hattori SI, Hayashi H, Agniswamy J, Wang YF, Weber IT,

Mitsuya H.

J Med Chem. 2018 Nov 8;61(21):9722-9737. doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.8b01227. Epub 2018 Oct 24.

Distant Insulin Signaling Regulates Vertebrate Pigmentation through the Sheddase Bace2.

Zhang YM, Zimmer MA, Guardia T, Callahan SJ, Mondal C, Di Martino J, Takagi T, Fennell M, Garippa R,

Campbell NR, Bravo-Cordero JJ, White RM.

Dev Cell. 2018 Jun 4;45(5):580-594.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2018.04.025. Epub 2018 May 24.

Fast, furious and enduring: Sensitive versus critical periods in sexual differentiation of the brain.

McCarthy MM, Herold K, Stockman SL.

Physiol Behav. 2018 Apr 1;187:13-19. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2017.10.030. Epub 2017 Oct 31. Review.

Genome-Scale Transcriptional Regulatory Network Models of Psychiatric and Neurodegenerative

Disorders.

Pearl JR, Colantuoni C, Bergey DE, Funk CC, Shannon P, Basu B, Casella AM, Oshone RT, Hood L, Price

ND, Ament SA.

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Homotransfer of FRET Reporters for Live Cell Imaging.

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Continued from page 2, Da’Kuawn Johnson:

When you are surrounded by people who are passionate about what you are passionate about,

you don’t mind working or getting your required tasks done. I believe the passion from everyone

makes a more positive and enjoyable environment.

The whole piece can be found at: http://www.sparkvisionnow.com/millennial-voices-

dakuawn-johnson/

Continued from page 2, Adrienne Kambouris:

I also met my husband and had two of our children. In 2013, I decided to separate (from the

military) because I felt that I could no longer grow my career; but I still had the dream to pursue

medicine. I went back to school after more than 10 years out of the classroom and pregnant

with my third child. I graduated in 2016 from Augusta University with a BS in Cell and Molecular

Biology and Chemistry and I started an MD/PhD program at University of Maryland that fall. I

have currently completed two years of medical school and have started my PhD program.

The full article can be found:

https://blackgirlmedicine.wordpress.com/2018/08/01/womencrushingitwednesday-adrienne/

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