2022 Young Guts Scholars
Lucy Zhao
MIT
Project: Ingestible, autonomous gastric balloon for long term weight loss, drug delivery, and sensing.
Goal: Physician-scientist at the intersection of medical device engineering and policy
Hobbies: piano, swimming, cooking
Post-Graduate: Harvard Medical School, MD program 2024
Association of MIT Alumnae (AMITA) Award 2024 (highest level of academic excellence)
Andrew Tran
Duke University (Mentor at Stanford)
Project: Hepatocellular carcinoma risk in untreated versus treated chronic hepatitis B patients with indeterminate phase: A multi-center study with inverse probability treatment weighting
Goal: MD or PhD
Hobbies: Basketball, strength training, Entrepreneurship
Publications: DQ Huang, A Tran et al. Antiviral therapy substantially reduces hepatocelluar carcinoma risk in chronic Hepatitis B patients in the indeterminate phase. Hepatology 2023; 78(5):1558-1568
Varun Ponnuasamy
University of Michigan
Project: Mineralocorticoid receptor: a novel tumor suppressor in colorectal cancer
Goal: MD/PhD
Hobbies: weight lift, cooking
Publications: Mineralocorticoid receptor: a novel tumor suppressor in colorectal cancer. Varun Ponnusamy et al. DDW 2023 Poster Presentation
Daniella Montalvo
University of Michigan
Project: Effect of DUOX2 dysregulation in ulcerative colitis
Goal: PhD
Hobby: cooking
Publications: The TLR4 antagonist Resatorvid modulates inflammation induced DUOX2 activation. Daniella Montalvo et al. DDW 2023 Oral Presentation
Sohaib Hassan
Rutgers
Project: Effect of epithelial signaling on mesenchyme during tumorigenesis and tissue regeneration
Goal: PhD in Biomedical Informatics, conducting research on complex diseases including neuromuscular conditions
Hobbies: watching baseball, reading manga
Post Graduate: Stanford University, Biomedical Informatics PhD program 2023
Sarah Chough
Columbia
Project: Deciphering fibroblast-myeloid cell interactions in Pancreatic adenocarcinoma
Goal: MD
Hobbies: piano, cooking, writing