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
Integrating Social Determinants of Health and Temporal Patterns with Wastewater-Based Drug Surveillance in El Paso, Texas, Arav Wijesinghe
Investigating Neuromuscular Coordination and Adaptations from KAFO-Assisted Gait Training in Post-Stroke Individuals, Matthew De Guzman
Investigating Patient Reported Outcomes (PROs) of Long COVID, Luke A. Sims
Leveraging Sports Analytics and Intraoperative Video to Improve Surgical Quality and Outcomes, Jasie L. Williams-Roberts
Local Adherence with Society Guidelines and Postoperative Outcomes in Perforated Appendicitis, Mackenzie K. Joe
Long-Term Quality of Life for Patients with Merkel Cell Carcinoma Receiving Standard-of-Care Adjuvant Radiation Therapy, Christian Paul D. Denolan, Kelsey N. Nordlund, Aya F. Salem, et al.
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
Metabolic Correlates of Suicidal Ideation in a Longitudinal Cohort of Hospitalized Adults with Mood Disorders, Mihai Bendea, Nanako Matsuda, Ali Muhammad Lalani, et al.
microRNA-433-3p Induced Senolysis of Glioblastoma for Enhanced Viro-Immunotherapy, Stephanie M. Bean
MicroRNA Regulation of Human Trophoblast Stem Cell Proliferation, Eva E. Adams, Madison Vu, and Jacqueline G. Parchem
Mixed-Reality Visualization in Revision Reverse Shoulder Arthroplasty: A Retrospective Comparative Study, William C. Smoot
More Than a Mesh: Gastrocnemius Flap Augmentation in Extensor Mechanism Reconstruction, Jered Wilson
Neonatal Surgical Site Infections: Evaluating Risk Factors and Adherence to Preventive Protocols, Owen N. Ferriola, Allen Huang, Joan C. Bruce, et al.
Network meta-analysis of the impacts of Social Determinants of Health on Dialysis Patients’ ability to respond to Natural Disasters, Juan Paulo Yap Gonzales
Neurodevelopmental Outcomes after Posthemorrhagic Hydrocephalus of Prematurity, Mekal S. Mathew, Rene Leal, Caroline L. Hanan, et al.
Neuroinflammatory Profiles in the Hippocampus of Cognitively Resilient Alzheimer's Disease Patients, William H. Otte, Avery Matthews, Hongyu Wu, et al.
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
Optimizing Biomechanical Conditioning for Human Intestinal Organoids with an Enteric Nervous System, Cash L. Davis, Rachel Bordelon, Madushani Herath, et al.
Optimizing Esophagogastric Junction Assessment and Antisecretory Medication Documentation During EGD: A Preintervention Quality Improvement Analysis, Vikram R. Ekambaram, Maneera Chopra, and Wasseem Skef
Optimizing Feeding Trajectories in High-Risk NICU Infants: A Quality Improvement Initiative, Saachi Singal, Amirali Tahanan MS, Manouchehr Hessabi MD, MPH, et al.
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