MEDICAL RESEARCH SCHOLARS PROGRAM (MRSP) SAMPLE OF 2014-2015 SCHOLARS’ RESEARCH TOPICS Cortlyn Brown Yale University School of Medicine Topic: Specificity of Familial Aggregation and Cross-transmission of ADHD and Mood Disorder Subtypes in a Community-based Sample; Mentor: Kathleen Merikangas, Ph.D., Chief, Genetic Epidemiology Research Branch, NIMH Raju Chelluri SUNY Upstate Medical University Topic: Heat Shock Protein 90 Inhibition Combined with Targeted Therapies Synergistically Affects Cytotoxicity in Bladder Cancer Models; Mentor: Leonard M Neckers, Ph.D., Sr Investigator, Urologic Oncology, NCI Michael J Feldman Univ of Rochester Sch of Medicine & Dentistry Topic: Protein Phosphatase 2A in Pediatric Brain Tumors; Mentor: Prashant Chittiboina, M.D., Staff Clinician, Surgical Neurology Branch, NINDS Presley Garrison Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University Topic: Spatial Regulation of Bone Morphogenetic Proteins in Postnatal Growth Plate and Articular Cartilage; Mentor: Jeffrey Baron, M.D., Head, Section on Growth and Development, NICHD Molly Hague UCLA, San Francisco School of Dentistry Topic: The Role of Fibronectin and Btbd7 in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma; Mentor: Kenneth Yamada, M.D., Ph.D., Chief, Lab of Cell and Developmental Biology, NIDCR Richard Ho Albert Einstein College of Medicine Topic: Multiparametric MRI Predicts Biochemical Recurrence in Men Undergoing Radical Prostatectomy; Mentor: Peter A Pinto, M.D., Head, Prostate Cancer Section, Urologic Oncology Branch, NCI Jason K Hsieh Cleveland Clinic Lerner Col of Med at Case Western Univ Topic: Graph Metrics of Seizure Foci in Epilepsy; Mentor: Kareem Zaghloul, M.D., Ph.D., Staff Clinician, Surgical Neurology, NINDS Ali Jamil NYU Sch of Medicine Topic: Clinical Aspects of Hyper IgE-Like Cohorts; Mentor: Joshua D Milner, M.D., Chief, Genetics & Pathogenesis of Allergy Section, Lab of Allergic Disease, NIAID Nikhil Jiwrajka Johns Hopkins Univ School of Medicine Topic: Evaluation of IL13Rα2 as a Therapeutic Target for Pulmonary Fibrosis; Mentor: Thomas A Wynn, Ph.D., Chief, Immunopathogenesis Section, Lab of Parasitic Diseases, NIAID Amrita Karambelkar Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Topic: Mechanistic Insights into Efficient Targeting of Ewing’s Sarcoma by Ex Vivo Expanded Natural Killer Cells: Promise for Natural Killer Cell Immunotherapy; Mentor: Richard Childs, M.D., Sr Investigator, Lab of Transplantation Immunotherapy; Clinical Director, NHLBI Jane Kim University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine Topic: Incidence and Prevalence of Childhood Uveitis; Mentors: H Nida Sen, M.D., MHS, Director, Uveitis and Ocular Immunology Fellowship Program; Robert B Nussenblatt, M.D., MPH, Chief, Laboratory of Immunology, NEI Jennie D Leikin Tufts University School of Dental Medicine Topic: Analysis of IsomiRs in Lung Cancer; Mentor: Bríd Ryan, Ph.D., M.P.H., Stadtman Investigator, Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis, Center for Cancer Research, NCI Angela Liu Univ of California San Diego, Sch of Medicine Topic: Reproducibility and Determinants of Colposcopic Impressions and Predictive Diagnostic Accuracy; Mentor: Nicolas Wentzensen, M.D., Ph.D., Sr Investigator, Epidemiology Genetics Section, Hormonal & Reproductive Epidemiology, NCI Joseph Cataquiz rimando Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University Topic: Amino Acid Excess Modulates the Phenotype of Rapamycin-Resistant CD4+ T Cells; Mentor: Daniel Fowler, M.D., Sr Investigator; Head, Cytokine Biology Section, Experimental Transplantation and Immunology Branch, NCI Denise Fay Ye Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Topic: Visual Exploration in Parkinson’s Disease and Freezing of Gait; Mentor: Mark Hallett, MD, Chief, Human Motor Control Section, NINDS Foundation for the National Institutes of Health | 9650 Rockville Pike | Bethesda, MD 20814-3999 | fnih.org