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
Engineering PEGylated Chitosan–Gold Nanoparticles for Radiosensitization and siRNA Delivery to Glioblastoma, Wesley Chiu
Enucleation Versus Anatomical Resection of Malignant Pancreatic Tumors in Children and Young Adults, Alexander Lee
EUS-Guided Radiofrequency Ablation as an Adjunct to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in PDAC: A Comparative Cohort Analysis, Christiaan van der Weiden and Curtis J Wray
Evaluating Genetic Testing Practices for Neonates with Cleft Lip and/or Palate in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Lily J. Buckner
Evaluating Large Language Models for CPT Code Prediction in Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery, Krishi S. Manem
Evaluating Pediatric Surgical Care Delivery Across Settings: National Trends in Ambulatory, Outpatient, and Inpatient Models, Kyle C. Nevitt
Evaluating Surgical Performance Through Intraoperative Video: A Pilot Study in Robotic Cholecystectomy, Brandon S. Blair
Evaluating the Impact of Eczema on Outgrowing Food Allergies, Multiple Food Allergies, and Atopic Multimorbidity in Children, Nicole K. Koulov
Evaluating the Role of Perineural Invasion in the Risk of Local Recurrence of Cutaneous Melanoma After Adjuvant Radiation Therapy, Riya T. Patel
Evaluation of Incidence of Radiation Induced Kidney Injury with Y-90 Radioembolization, Apurva Veeraswamy
Fenfluramine use as treatment for refractory seizures in Tuberous Sclerosis Complex, Marlizeth Castaneda Hernandez, Evelyn Williams, and Sarah ML Wilson MD
From Injury to Recovery: Clinical and Psychological Outcomes in Pediatric Trauma, Andrew M. Dlugosch
Functional Characterization of a Hepcidin Knockout Mouse Model for the Study of Acute Pancreatitis, Andrew Schmidt, Amanda Bean, Jiajing Li, et al.
Gas Shearing Fabrication of Biodegradable Microparticles for Sustained Polyphage Delivery, Tanner Taylor and Catherine Ambrose
Gauging Understanding of Information in Discharge Education in Trauma and Burn Patients, Marissa N. Thibodeaux
Graded Classification of Sacral Dysmorphism and Its Impact on Osseous Fixation Pathways, Mia Nguyen, Logan Kasper, and Stephen Warner
HPV Vaccination Status and Associated Factors Among Postpartum Patients, Morgan L. Malonson, Sandhya B. Avula, and Mary B. Rysavy
Immunomodulatory role of MUC5AC in Lung Cancer Progression, Julia G. Kim
Implementation Study of AortaGPT, an AI Decision Support Tool for Heritable Thoracic Aortic Disease, Noah Mathai
Individualized Kinematically-Driven Contact Modeling Offers a Reliable Alternative for Periacetabular Osteotomy Planning, James J. McGinley
Injury Patterns and Early Outcomes of Traumatic Obturator Hip Dislocation: A Preliminary Case Series, Robert J. Zamen and Jonathan G. Eastman
Integrating Social Determinants of Health and Temporal Patterns with Wastewater-Based Drug Surveillance in El Paso, Texas, Arav Wijesinghe