Residents

Winner:  Payal Desai, M.D., The Incidence of Human Papillomavirus in Squamous Cell Carcinomas Metastatic to the Neck.  Mentor:  Alfred B. Jenson, M.D., Brown Cancer Center

Clinical Research Fellows

Winner:  Inemesit Umoren, M.D., Narrow Spectrum Antibiotic Therapy is not Associated with Worse Clinical Outcomes in Patients with Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia.  Mentor:  Julio Ramirez, M.D., Medicine

Postdoctoral Research Fellows

First Place:  Delphine El Mehdi, Ph.D., HSP25 Expression and Phosphorylation Induces Cellular Tolerance and Promotes Astrocyte Process Extension after Rat Spinal Cord Injury.  Mentor:  Evelyne Gozal, Ph.D., Pediatrics

Second Place-Tie: Scot Ouellette, Ph.D., Chlamydial Species Exhibit Differential Interactions with the Endosomal Pathway.  Mentor:  Rey Carabeo, Ph.D., Microbiology and Immunology

Second Place-Tie:  Claudia von Montfort, Ph.D., Contribution of the Sympathetic Hormone Epinephrine to the Sensitizing Effect of Ethanol on Lipopolysaccharide-induced Liver Damage.  Mentor:  Gavin Arteel, Ph.D., Pharmacology and Toxicology

Third Place:  Majorie Bon Homme, Ph.D., Down Regulation of JNK-2 mRNA Following Acute Acetaminophen Poisoning: Potential Implications on Adaptive Tolerance.  Mentor:  Mark Linder, Ph.D., Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Research Staff Award

Winner:  Larry Adamson, Regulatory T Cells Infiltrate the Transplanted Skin of Rats Induced to Accept a Hind-limb Allotransplant.  Mentor:  Suzanne Ildstad, M.D., Institute for Cellular Therapeutics/Department of Surgery