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GA-黑料传送门 Celebrates Research Day


May 22, 2017

Thirty-three research posters were presented by students, pharmacy residents and faculty members at Georgia Campus 鈥 黑料传送门鈥檚 (GA-黑料传送门) Seventh Annual Research Day held last week. The event kicked off with a keynote speech by Audrey Duarte, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychology at Georgia Tech. The title of Dr. Duarte鈥檚 talk was 鈥淲hat Can Neuroimaging Tell Us about Age-Related Memory Changes.鈥

Research ranging from such topics as the initiative to increase pneumococcal vaccination rates in rural Georgia clinics, to social media and digital epidemiology, to therapeutic management of lower extremity arterial bypass graft occlusion was presented.


Research Day topics at GA-黑料传送门 covered topics ranging from initiative to increase pneumococcal vaccination rates in rural Georgia clinics, to social media and digital epidemiology.


Research Day award winners included:

Biomedical Sciences

  • First place: Moji Salau (MS 鈥17) and Shelby Sweat (MS 鈥17), 鈥淏KCa Channel Expression and Functional Regulation in Diabetic Pulmonary Arterial Smooth Muscle Cells.鈥
  • Second place: Christina Paul (MS 鈥17) 鈥淭he Role of Lipocalin -2 (Lcn2) in Acetaminophen Induced Acute Liver Failure.鈥
  • Honorable mention: Nisha Gajjar (MS 鈥17) and Elizabeth Hernandez (MS 鈥17), 鈥淭he Role of Secretory Phospholipase A2 (sPLA2) Inhibitor Varespladib in Mitigation of Acetaminophen (APAP) Induced Acute Liver Failure.鈥

Osteopathic Medicine

  • First place: Andrew Keith (DO 鈥20), 鈥淐erebellar and Cerebral Cortical Responses to Cathodal tDCS: an In Vivo Approach to Study Its Applicability to Cerebellar Ataxia Treatment.鈥
  • Second place: Alex Wang (DO 鈥20) 鈥淪tudy of Excitability Changes in Purkinje Cell Output during DCS Stimulation by In Vitro Approach.鈥

School of Pharmacy

  • First place: Teena John (PharmD 鈥19), 鈥淎nti-Myeloma Effect of Imidazole and Methyl Derivatives of a Synthetic Oleanane Triterpenoid 2-cyano-3, 12 dioxooleana-1, 9-dien-28-oic acid (CDDO)
  • Second place: Eva Karam (PharmD 鈥17), 鈥淢anagement of HIV-Positive Patients Undergoing CABG: A Case Series.鈥
  • Honorable mention: Irandokht Khaki Najafabadi (PharmD 鈥18), 鈥淢agnetic Drug Delivery of Xanthohumol to Adipocytes Using Ultrasmall Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles.鈥

Residents/Fellows

  • First place: Brandon Cunningham, PharmD (PGY-1 Resident), 鈥淎ppropriateness of Statin Dose in High Risk Patients Post-PCI/CABG at Gwinnett Medical Center.鈥
  • Second place: Cynthia Francis, PhD, 鈥淐ycolospirine A-Induced Calcineurin Isoform Specific Matrix Metalloproteinases (MMP-2 and MMP-9) Expression in Renal Fibroblasts.鈥
  • Honorable mention: Keith Johnson, PharmD (PGY-1 Resident), 鈥淧harmacist Intervention on the Stroke Team in the Emergency Department.鈥

Faculty members who participated as judges and/or on the ad-hoc Research Day planning committee included: Adwoa Aduonum, PhD; Vishakha Bhave, PhD; Skye Bickett, DHSc; Valerie Cadet, PhD; Shafik Habal, MD; Abigail Hielscher, PhD; Georga Huang, PhD; Frank Jenney, PhD; Robert McAfee, PhD; Mary Owen, JD, MS, PhD; Srujana Rayalam, DVM, PhD; Lori Redmond, PhD; Rangaiah Shashidharamurthy, PhD and Xinyu Wang, PhD.

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