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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