Summer Research Program Abstracts
Summer Research Program abstracts from 2026-current.
If you are a McGovern Medical School at UTHealth first-year medical student, you can gain hands-on laboratory experience under the supervision of a faculty sponsor during the summer between your first and second year of medical school.
As a summer research program student, you will be guided by your faculty mentor on a research project over 10 weeks. Students are expected to work 40 hours weekly on their research in their selected faculty mentor’s laboratory. At the conclusion of the program, you will submit an abstract of your research. Your mentor will also help you develop a poster that must be presented at the annual Research Forum held in the fall.
Submissions from 2026
Acceleration of Coagulation Kinetics for Clot Burst Pressure Assessment, Hanuk Kwon
A Community-Informed Survey Identifying Research Priorities For Sex Chromosome Aneuploidies, Matthew Fein
Age and Sex Modulation of No Signaling in Mouse Brain, Emmaline R. Thorpe
A Head of the Curve: Investigating Helmet Therapy Compliance in Patients with Craniosynostosis, Racquel V. Lyn
A High-Stakes Landing: Traumatic Innominate Artery Injury After a Skydiving Accident, Claire G. Lewis MS, Sarah Burki MD, Mahmound Alhusseini MD, et al.
AI-Enhanced Predictive Model for Adverse Clinical Outcomes of Chronic Diseases in Older Adults, Grace C. Giles
AI-Segmented Upper Airway Imaging Biomarkers Across the Lifespan, David L. Holt and Vishwa S. Parekh
A leg up: Flap choice in the management of defects of the distal third of the leg, Nikitha Bhavani
AMCF-1 Overexpression Enhances Motor and Physiological Outcomes in a Mouse Model of Leigh Syndrome, Andrew Fanous
Analysis of Surgical Irrigants in High-Pressure Paint Injection Injuries As Determined By Fluorescent Particle Imagery, Elise Ehrlich
Anesthetic Considerations in Geriatric Oncological Patients: A Case Series, Allison Chen and Edward H. Tsai
A New Tool to Improve Prediction of Clinical Outcomes After Endovascular Therapy for Patients with Large Infarct Core., Demi K. Waworuntu
A Novel Acoustic Emission Technology for Assessing Osseointegration in Bone-Anchored Implants, Ethan Snyder
Assessing the Effects of Tunicamycin in Trophoblast Stem Cell Differentiation, Kay Chi Pua
Assessing the Potential Risk Factors for Major Surgical Complications in Operative Fixation of Patients with Pelvic Ring Disruptions, Benjamin Roberts
Assessment of the Best Practices of Pose Estimation and Machine Learning use for Clinical Gait Analysis, Micah B. Stull
Associations Between TRPM4 Gene Variants and Intracranial Pressure Dynamics Following Traumatic Brain Injury, Emily H. Saweris
Bacteriophage Encapsulation with Type A and Type B Gelatin Microparticles to Treat Antimicrobial-Resistant Orthopedic Device-Related Infections, Aiden A. Willis
Between Burn and Graft: Evaluating Outpatient Management in Pediatric Burn Patients, Nicholas A. Long, Alexa Cumming, Ananya Sampathkumar, et al.
Beyond the Numbers: Body Mass Index in Gender Affirming Mastectomy, Alyssa M. Griffith
Biomarker-Defined Neural Injury-Risk Profiles and Maternal Plasma Small Extracellular Vesicles in Preeclampsia, Mariele Patungan, Jacqueline Parchem, Tina O. Findley, et al.
Biomechanical Assessment of Extensor Pollicis Longus Following Dorsal Wrist Approach: A Pilot Investigation, Jacob Jefferson
Biomechanical Gait Analysis to Classify Neurological Gait Scores in a Spina Bifida Sheep Model, Shreya Pandiri
Bridging the Gap: Assessing Barriers to Patch Testing Across Diverse Skin Tones, Ritesh V. Soule
Bridging the Gap: Patient Perspectives on Transition of Care in Hirschsprung Disease, Stefanie F. Faucher