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
Pioglitazone and Atheroglitatide As Modulators of Fibroblast Placitiy in Pulmonary Fibrosis, Sean M. Crain
Plasma and extracellular vesicle–enriched protein profiles in chronic rhinosinusitis, Aryana Amin, Rutviben P. Shah BDS, Dhvani Parikh MPH, et al.
Population-Level Eligibility for BoneMRI as a Radiation-Free Alternative to Spine CT, Niels Levy-Thiebaut and Timothy Borden MD
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
Procedural Pain in Extremely Preterm Infants During the First 28 Days of Life, Emma Young, Manouchehr Hessabi MD, Amirali Tahanan MS, et al.
Quadriceps Tendon versus Patellar Tendon Autograft for Primary ACL Reconstruction: A Matched-Pairs Analysis at 3, 6, and 9 Months, Grant Gueller, Steven Higbie, and Walter Lowe
Quantifying Hemodynamics in Implantable Cardiac and Renal Support Devices Using Computational Modeling, Alexander D. De Oliveira
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 Over-Isolation: Baseline Evaluation of Isolation Precaution Reassessment in Hospitalized Children, Laura Brambilla and Wan-Hsuan Chen
Reducing the Detrimental Effects of Post-Stroke Social Isolation through Inhibition of miRNA-10a-5p in a Mouse Model, Peijun Zhao
Reference-Point Indentation Captures Age-Related Material-Quality Changes in Human Infant Rib Cortical Bone, Kush Patel
Regional Hemodynamic Characterization of the Thoracic Aorta Using 4D Flow MRI: A Single-Center Pilot Study, John H. Major
Reviewing the Perioperative Process for Gastrostomy Tube Care: A Qualitative Study, Douglas J. Fox III, Owen N. Ferriola, Allen J. Huang, et al.
Review of Outcomes: Quality Improvement of Upper-Extremity Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections, Cailey A. England BS, Ryan A. Reinhart BS, Tien Do DO, et al.
Robot-Assisted Frameless Stereotactic Implantation of High-Density Depth Arrays in an Ovine Model, Trevor Alwell
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
Seeing It Through: Stage 2 Attrition in the Masquelet Technique for Lower Extremity Segmental Defects, Erica Y. Lee, Ryan A. Reinhart, Noelle Smurawa, et al.
Sex Differences in Surveillance Outcomes of Thoracic Aortic Disease: Insights From the “Watchful Waiting” Study, TRANG H. DO, Brian Shukwit, MinJae Lee, et al.
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