University of Michigan Medical School students, including undergraduates, medical and nursing students, doctoral students and postdoctoral internships, presented approximately 250 research projects at the annual 2023 Health Sciences Research Day (HSRD) on November 10, 2023 raw work.
Research posters cover a variety of topics in healthcare, including psychology, immunology, infectious diseases, gynecology, oncology, neurology, and more. During the day-long event, students discussed their work with interested passers-by and were evaluated by 82 judges.
Dr. Ali Khademhosseini is this year’s keynote speaker. He is CEO of the Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation and CEO and founder of Omeat, a company exploring how to grow edible meat from cells. Richard Barohn, MD, Hugh E. Sarah D. Stephenson, dean of the School of Medicine and executive vice chancellor for health affairs, and Bettina Mittendorfer, PhD, senior associate dean for research, delivered opening remarks.
“Each year we proudly showcase the talents of our researchers, training researchers, and faculty researchers. I love seeing students go through the process of discovery,” Barone said. “We are all here with the same goal in mind, which is to impart expertise, experience and passion for research.”
By tradition, the Dorsett L. Spurgeon, MD Distinguished Medical Research Award is presented during the HSRD to University of Missouri School of Medicine researchers in recognition of outstanding achievements early in their careers. This year’s recipient is Jussuf Thomas Kaifi, MD, for his research identifying cellular targets in lung cancer. Currently, he is the Chief of Thoracic Surgery Department and Assistant Professor of Surgery.
“It’s a meaningful recognition of what we do,” Keffi said. “It didn’t just recognize me, either. We have a lot of contributors and mentors on our multidisciplinary team.”
This year, Dr. Donald Burke-Aguero received the Excellence in Mentored Research Award. He is a professor of molecular microbiology and immunology in the School of Medicine and a professor of biochemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Three health science students received dean’s awards from their respective schools for their research abstracts.
The School of Medicine Research Committee highlighted three projects as honorable mentions for the Dean’s Award.
Students’ basic science and clinical research projects are reviewed in two categories: Category 1 for undergraduates, medical students, Conley Scholars, and Summer Research Fellowship participants, and Category 2 for graduate students, residents, and postdoctoral researchers and fellows.
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For the first time in history, there was a three-way tie for first place.
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