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Summer Scholars: Medical Students Dive Into Research

September 12, 2023 by Janet Essman Franz

Each summer, many rising second-year medical students engage in clinical, basic science or health policy-related research projects under the guidance of expert faculty. The students choose their topics based on personal passions and immerse themselves in projects tackling medical puzzles and unmet health needs. Engaging in research can be among the most valuable experiences during a medical education.

Wendy Memishian investigated cerebral blood flow autoregulation in adults born from of preeclamptic mothers, under the mentorship from Emmett Whitaker, M.D.

Each summer, many rising second-year medical students engage in clinical, basic science or health policy-related research projects under the guidance of expert faculty. The students choose their topics based on personal passions and immerse themselves in projects tackling medical puzzles and unmet health needs. Engaging in research can be among the most valuable experiences during a medical education. Read on for a glimpse of summer 2023 research by the Larner Class of 2026.

Recent Stories and Publications Featuring VCCBH Members

Larner College of Medicine Dean's Newsletter, Accolades and Accomplishments

Posted August 21, 2024

Mark Nelson, Ph.D., chair and University Distinguished Professor of pharmacology, gave the Björn Folkow Lecture at the 15th Mechanisms of Vasodilation/Endothelium-Dependent Hyperpolarization (MOVD/EDH) 2024 conference July 2–5 at Magdalen College in Oxford, United Kingdom.

Larner College of Medicine Dean's Newsletter, Accolades and Accomplishments

Posted July 31, 2024

A collaborative research team co-led by investigators David Jangraw, Ph.D., M.S., and Denise Peters, Ph.D., D.P.T., PT, has been awarded the 2024 Armin Grams Memorial Research Award by the Center on Aging. 

Larner College of Medicine Dean's Newsletter, Accolades and Accomplishments

Posted July 10, 2024

Two Larner-affiliated researchers won their respective poster competitions at the Vermont Center for Cardiovascular and Brain Health symposium held June 6–7 at the University of Vermont’s Davis Center.

Movement of the endoplasmic reticulum is driven by multiple classes of vesicles marked by Rab-GTPases

Posted May 15, 2024

John Salogiannis, Ph.D., assistant professor of molecular physiology and biophysics, and members of his lab team—Allison (Morrissey) Langley, lab technician and Ph.D. candidate in cellular, molecular, and biomedical sciences; Sarah Abeling-Wang, lab research technician; and Erinn Wagner, UVM undergraduate biology major—have their first preprint*: “Movement of the endoplasmic reticulum is driven by multiple classes of vesicles marked by Rab-GTPases.” The team’s research is supported by an NIH Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA or R35) for early-stage investigators.

The University of Vermont Center on Aging Newsletter

Posted May 2024

Katharine Cheung, M.D., Ph.D., M.Sc., interim director of the UVM Center on Aging, associate director for research, and assistant professor of medicine, and her mentee, medical student Susanna Schuler ’26, presented their research findings at the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine State of the Science meeting on March 23 in Phoenix, Arizona.

Larner College of Medicine Dean's Newsletter, Accolades and Accomplishments

Posted March 6, 2024

A study by a nationwide collaborative group, including Larner scientists Mary Cushman, M.D., M.Sc., University of Vermont Distinguished Professor and co-director of the Vermont Center for Cardiovascular and Brain Health, Russell Tracy, Ph.D., University of Vermont Distinguished Professor and director of UVM’s Laboratory for Clinical Biochemistry Research, Margaret Doyle Ph.D., associate professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and co-director of the Laboratory of Clinical Biochemistry, and Rebekah Boyle, M.S., was recently published in Nature Communications.

 

UVM Scientist Wins Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Grant to Tackle Neurodegenerative Diseases

Larner Scientist Seeks to Advance Neurodegeneration Research

February 22, 2024

Larner College of Medicine scientist Osama Harraz, Ph.D., M.Sc., and his colleague from the University of Maryland (UMD), Thomas Longden, Ph.D., are recipients of a prestigious Collaborative Pairs Pilot Project Award from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s (CZI) Neurodegeneration Challenge Network (NCDN).