Current Trainees
Year of Award | Trainee | Trainee Department | Mentor | Mentor Department | Title of Research |
2023 | Marija Nadjsombati | Oncological Sciences | Alana Welm, PhD | Oncological Sciences | Defining the role of short-form Ron kinase in the anti-tumor immune response |
2023 | Rachel McCarty | Population Health Sciences | Jennifer Doherty, MS, PhD | Population Health Sciences | Characteristics of the tattooed population in Utah and associations between tattooing and hematologic malignancies and melanoma |
2023 | Kade Loveridge | Biochemistry | Paul Sigala, PhD | Biochemistry | Mechanisms of Iron Acquisition in Malaria Parasites |
2023 | Erykah Starr | Medicinal Chemistry | Amy Barrios, PhD | Medicinal Chemistry | Development of chemical toolkit for mammalian histidine kinase, NME1/2, with in vitro peptide libraries and fluorogenic probes |
2023 | Karishma Shah | Psychiatry | Deborah Yurgelun-Todd | Psychiatry | Am I my pain? How pain embodiment relates to default mode network neurodynamics in chronic pain |
2023 | Paola Fonseca-Romero | Pathology | Daniel Leung, MD, MSc | Internal Medicine | Integrating Clinical Prediction Rules and Metabolomic Biomarkers for Diagnosis and Prognosis of Diarrheal Infections in Children |
2022 | Selene Tobin | Health and Kinesiology | Tanya Halliday, PhD, RD | Nutrition and Integrative Physiology | Energy Balance in the Weight-Reduced State |
2022 | Christine Platt, PhD, DNP | College of Nursing | Andrea Wallace, PhD, RN, FAAN | College of Nursing | Improving Care for Children with Medical Needs in Foster Care |
2022 | Rosemarie Murray, PhD | Mechanical Engineering | Tommaso Lenzi, PhD | Mechanical Engineering | Toward optimizing hip assistance in stroke patients using powered exoskeletons |
Past Trainees
Year of Award |
Trainee |
Trainee Department |
Mentor |
Mentor Department |
Title of Research |
2023 |
Corey Shayman |
Psychology |
Kinesiology |
Understanding the Role of Auditory Cues in Multisensory Integration for Improving Navigation |
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2022 |
Sara Bybee, PhD |
Center for HOPE, Huntsman Cancer Institute |
Population Health Sciences |
Meeting the Social Needs of Those Without Telephone or Internet Access |
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2022 |
Ophthalmology & Visual Science |
Ophthalmology & Visual Science |
Access to Vision Care Services for Children in the United States |
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2021 |
Travis Tu'ifua |
Human Genetics |
Clement Chow, PhD |
Human Genetics |
Functional Characterization of Genetic Modifiers of NGLY1 Deficiency |
2020 |
Cecile Avery |
Human Genetics |
Lynn Jorde, PhD |
Human Genetics |
Leveraging Large Pedigrees to Identify Pathogenic Genetic Variation in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis |
2020 |
Population Health Sciences |
Jennifer A. Doherty, PhD |
Population Health Sciences |
Influence of comorbidities on disparities in ovarian cancer treatment, treatment response and survival |
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2020 |
Mechanical Engineering |
Tommaso Lenzi, PhD |
Mechanical Engineering |
Adaptive Neural Control of Robotic Leg Exoskeletons to Improve Mobility in Stroke Patients |
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2020 |
Michael Paskett, MD |
Biomedical Engineering |
Gregory A. Clark |
Biomedical Engineering |
Cognitive Load Measurement during Neuromyoelectric Prosthesis Use with Sensory Feedback and Intuitive Motor Control |
2020 |
Julie Feusier, PhD |
Huntsman Cancer Institute |
Nicola Camp, PhD |
Internal Medicine |
Investigating the genetic and transcriptomic landscape in CLL |
2019 |
Daniel Labuz, MS |
Pathology |
Daniel Leung, MD, MSc |
Internal Medicine |
Targeting secondary infections following sepsis through de novo DNA methylation inhibition of mucosal associated invariant T (MAIT) cells |
2019 |
Michael Cormier |
Human Genetics |
Aaron Quinlan |
Human Genetics and Biomedical Informatics |
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2019 |
Daria Anderson |
Biomedical Engineering |
John Rolston |
Neurosurgery |
Cellular and Network Mechanisms of Seizure Control Through Stimulation in Epilepsy |
2018 |
Emily Innis, PhD |
Pathology |
Adam Spivak, MD |
Internal Medicine |
Analysis of Latent HIV-1 Infection in Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes of Aviremic HIV-1 Infected Patients |
2018 |
Stephanie Kravitz |
Human Genetics |
Christopher Gregg, PhD |
Neurobiology & Anatomy |
Identifying Epigenetic Allelic Effects in Human Tissues |
2018 |
Population Health Sciences |
Jennifer A. Doherty, PhD, MA |
Population Health Sciences |
Blood Methylation Biomarkers and Lung Cancer Risk and Survival in Heavy Smokers |
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2018 |
Huntsman Cancer Institute |
David Wetter |
Huntsman Cancer Institute |
Using a mHealth framework to understand health behaviors: Implicationf for tobacco cessation interventions among marginalized populations |
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2016 |
Andrew Farrell, PhD |
Human Genetics |
Gabor Marth, DSc |
Human Genetics |
Novel Genomic Methods Used to Investigate the Poorly Understood Genetics of Autism and Suicide |
2015 |
Neurology |
Lynn Jorde, PhD |
Human Genetics |
Genetic Investigation of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis |
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2014 |
Edward Osborne |
Human Genetics |
Mark Yandell, PhD |
Human Genetics |
Work surrounding the genetic mapping of pathogenicity genes in the Streptococcus pneumoniae and developing software for the identification and typing of infectious agents |
2013 |
Brett Kennedy |
Human Genetics |
Mark Yandell, PhD and Lynn Jorde, PhD |
Human Genetics |
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