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T32 Awards Recipients

Current Trainees

Year of Award Trainee Trainee Department Mentor Mentor Department Title of Research
2024 Holden Wagstaff Emergency Medicine Jennifer J. Majersik Neurology Priority dispatch versus Criteria-based dispatch for the timely and the accurate recognition of stroke
2024 Jared Almazan  Oncological Sciences Sheri Holmen Surgery Investigating the combined inhibition of RAF, MEK, and FAK in melanoma molecular subtypes
2024 Adam Kotter Biomedical Informatics  Guillerme Del Fio Biomedical Informatics An Approach to Identify and Mitigate Algorithmic Performance Biases in Sepsis Prediction Models
2024 Qwynn Landifeld  Pharamcology & Toxicology Karen Wilcox Pharmacology & Toxicology Changes in Structure and Function of NG2-glia During Viral Encephalitis
2024 Alexandria Carlson Pharmacology & Toxicology Martin Golkowski & Mei Koh Pharmacology & Toxicology Functions and Translational Value of Adapter-Associated Kinase 1 in Therapy Resistant Liver Cancers
2024 Danny Davis Health & Kinesiology Kota Takahashi Health & Kinesiology Novel Mechanisms and Assistive Devices for Improving Older Adult Mobility Outcomes

Past 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
2023 Corey Shayman Psychology Peter Fino, PhD Kinesiology Understanding the Role of Auditory Cues in Multisensory Integration for Improving Navigation
2022 Sara Bybee, PhD Center for HOPE, Huntsman Cancer Institute Andrea Wallace, PhD, RN, FAAN Population Health Sciences Meeting the Social Needs of Those Without Telephone or Internet Access
2022 Afua Asare, OD, PhD Ophthalmology & Visual Science Brian Stagg, MD, MS Ophthalmology & Visual Science Access to Vision Care Services for Children in the United States
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 Lindsay Collin, PhD Population Health Sciences Jennifer A. Doherty, PhD Population Health Sciences Influence of comorbidities on disparities in ovarian cancer treatment, treatment response and survival
2020 Jacob George, PhD Mechanical Engineering Tommaso Lenzi, PhD Mechanical Engineering Adaptive Neural Control of Robotic Leg Exoskeletons to Improve Mobility in Stroke Patients
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  
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 Laurie Grieshober, MA, PhD Population Health Sciences Jennifer A. Doherty, PhD, MA Population Health Sciences Blood Methylation Biomarkers and Lung Cancer Risk and Survival in Heavy Smokers
2018 Lindsey Potter, MPH, PhD Huntsman Cancer Institute David Wetter Huntsman Cancer Institute Using a mHealth framework to understand health behaviors: Implicationf for tobacco cessation interventions among marginalized populations
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 Summer Gibson, MD Neurology Lynn Jorde, PhD Human Genetics Genetic Investigation of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
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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