2021 Department of Medicine Research Day award winners

This year’s Department of Medicine Research Day, held virtually October 14, had an attendance of more than 350 researchers, faculty, staff, and medical students. Presenters from across the department’s 10 divisions shared the exciting basic, translational, and clinical research currently being conducted. The event included Featured Research talks, oral presentations, poster presentations, a keynote, and a presentation of awards.

The event’s keynote address was titled, “Understanding inherited forms of prostate cancer: From familial risk to metastatic prostate cancer” and was delivered by Kathleen Ann Cooney, MD, the George Barth Geller Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Chair of the Department of Medicine at Duke University School of Medicine, in Durham, North Carolina.

Congratulations to this year’s Research Day award winners!

Best Oral Presentation – Clinical/Health Services Research 

• Onynye Iheaku (Hospital Medicine)

Best Oral Presentation – Basic Science Research

• Juline Deppen (PhD Student)

Best Poster Presentation – Clinical Research 

• Matthew Woodruff (Instructor – Immunology)

Best Poster Presentation – Basic Science Research 

• Sandeep Kumar, PhD (Biomedical Engineering)
• Jessica Pierce (Post Doctorial Fellow – Endocrinology)

Best Poster Presentation – Health Services Research 

• Aditi Ramakrishnan (Fellow – Infectious Diseases)

Special thanks to our Office of Research and Office of Faculty Development for organizing this event! We would also like to thank Kathy Griendling, PhD, vice chair for Research and Faculty Development in the Department of Medicine and associate dean for Faculty Affairs and Professional Development in the School of Medicine; Sarah McClellan, MPH, senior program coordinator of research; and Viranuj Sueblinvong, MD and Cecile Lahiri, MD, MSc, Research Day faculty co-chairs.