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T32 Awards Recipients

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

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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