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
Local Adherence with Society Guidelines and Postoperative Outcomes in Perforated Appendicitis, Mackenzie K. Joe
Machine Learning Model for Sander’s Score Determination, Andrew Guo
Maternal Characteristics and the Social Determinants of Health in Fetal vs Postnatal Myelomeningocele Repair, Amy Rose Hardcastle
microRNA-433-3p Induced Senolysis of Glioblastoma for Enhanced Viro-Immunotherapy, Stephanie M. Bean
Mixed-Reality Visualization in Revision Reverse Shoulder Arthroplasty: A Retrospective Comparative Study, William C. Smoot
Network meta-analysis of the impacts of Social Determinants of Health on Dialysis Patients’ ability to respond to Natural Disasters, Juan Paulo Yap Gonzales
Non-Medical Determinants of Health in Thoracic Aortic Disease: A Montalcino Aortic Consortium Study, Alberta S. Simmons
Operating Room Waste Reduction in Watts and Water: Savings Beyond the Shift to Reusable Textiles, Taylor R. Sweeney
Parental Perceptions of Child Health and Their Alignment with Clinical Indicators in Overweight or Obese Low-Income Children, Katherine Moorman-Wolfe
Patellofemoral Alignment Following Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Radiographic Analysis of 300 Patients with Two Implant Designs, Giselle K. Henry
Pediatric Insulin Resistance and Obesity in a Mexican Border Population – Associations with Inflammation and Metabolic Disease Risks, Glenda N. Asencio
Pioglitazone and Atheroglitatide As Modulators of Fibroblast Placitiy in Pulmonary Fibrosis, Sean M. Crain
Predictors of Failure Dring Nonoperative Management of Simple Acute Appendicitis, Srisha Jayakumar
Primary Breast Sarcoma in Pediatric, Adolescent, and Young Adult Patients: A Single-Institution Retrospective Review, Amelie D. Perrier
Radiation Exposure of Intraoperative Navigation During Posterior Spinal Fusion for Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis, Emily G. Koch
Real-World Outcomes of Patients with Geographic Atrophy Developing Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration After Receiving Anti-Complement Therapy, Charles F. Lano III
Reducing the Detrimental Effects of Post-Stroke Social Isolation through Inhibition of miRNA-10a-5p in a Mouse Model, Peijun Zhao
Routine but Rarely Needed: Blood Type and Antibody Screen Testing in Pediatric Surgical Patients, Avery N. Sinnathamby
Salinomycin Targets Cancer Stemness in Neuroblastoma via Wnt/β-Catenin and AKT/mTOR Attenuation, Blake M. Elliott
Saving Face: Use of Restraints in MVCs Mitigates Surgery, TBI, and C-Spine Injuries in Pediatric Facial Fracture Trauma, Dustin Rose McHalffey
Sleep Respiratory Biomarkers of Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP): A Case Control, Cat Tien Tran
Social and Psychological Well-being of APS Clients with Elder Mistreatment and Self-Neglect, Thara Ayyar
Sociodemographic and Clinical Factors in NMOSD and MOGAD: Disability, Psychiatric Burden, and Disparities, Neha S. Patil