Brian Nguyen: Brown, Mentor at Stanford

Project: Family Income-to-Poverty Ratio Differences in Characteristics and Mortality of Patients with Chronic Liver Disease in the United States, 1999 – 2018

Goal: MD

Hobby: Soccer, Photography

Cassidy (Cass) Condray: U of Oklahoma, Mentor at Mayo Clinic

Project: Panic! At The Bathroom: Biopsychosocial and Physical Impacts of Bathroom Bans on Transgender Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients

Goal: Gastroenterologist MD or MD-PhD, Physician Scientist

Hobby: 3D Printing, Reading, Fishing Achievements:

a. Panelist in Crohn's and Colitis Foundation's IBD Plexus Panel for 2024 and 2025

b. Mayo Clinic NAPP Award 2024

c. Association of Native American Medical Students/ANAMS research grant to study IBD disparities in Indigenous communities

d. Challenges in IBD Research 2024: Preclinical Human IBD Mechanisms, Inflamm Bowel Dis 2024 May 23;30(Supplement_2):S5-S18

Daniel Juarez: Columbia

Project: Increasing Epithelial Serotonin as a Novel, Effective Remedy for Anxiety and Depression: A Paradigm Shift in Novel Treatment Approaches for Mood Disorders.

Goal: PhD in neuroscience with a focus on the gut-brain axis

Hobby: Running and Poetry

Jason Lin: U of Michigan

Project: Defining the Therapeutic Role of Malic Enzymes Dependence in Pancreatic Cancer

Goal: PhD or MD/PhD

Hobby: Painting

Achievement:

U. Penn, Cell Biology PhD program 2024

Lara Cheesman: Johns Hopkins

Project: Comprehensive Pain Assessment Tool for Chronic Pancreatitis-Short Form (COMPAT-Sf) Pain Questionnaire for Hispanic Patients with Painful Chronic Pancreatitis

Goal: MD/PhD

Hobby: Soccer

Mahmoud (Moudy) Salem: Stony Brook University

Project: The Regulation of p27 via K17 in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma

Goal: MD/PhD

Hobby: Running, Reading, and Movies

Rafaella Lavalle Lacerda de Almeida: Michigan State U

Project: Role of enteric glial prostaglandin E2 in enteric neuroplasticity and dysmotility following colonic inflammation

Goal: MD/PhD

Hobby: Reading, working out and watching movies/series

Riya Malhotra: Case Western Reserve University

Project: Uncovering mechanisms of T cell-epithelial cell interactions under healthy and diseased conditions

Goal: MD

Hobby: discovering new music, cooking, and running

Achievement:

a. Ulcerative colitis-derived intestinal epithelial cells are protected from cell death by the immune mediators released from resting and activated systemic T cells. Riya Malhotra et al. Presented at the 2024 Crohn's & Colitis Congress, Las Vegas 1/2024