2023 Young Guts Scholars
Sarah Chough
Columbia
Project: Deciphering fibroblast-myeloid cell interactions in Pancreatic adenocarcinoma
Post Graduate Career: Business/Finance
Sohaib Hassan
Rutgers
Project: Effect of epithelial signaling on mesenchyme during tumorigenesis and tissue regeneration
Post Graduate Career: Stanford University Biomedical Informatics PhD
Daniella Montalvo
University of Michigan
Project: Effect of DUOX2 dysregulation in ulcerative colitis
Publication: The TLR4 antagonist Resatorvid modulates inflammation induced DUOX2 activation. Daniella Montalvo et al. DDW 2023 Oral Presentation
Varun Ponnusamy
University of Michigan
Project: Mineralocorticoid receptor: a novel tumor suppressor in colorectal cancer
Publication: Mineralocorticoid receptor: a novel tumor suppressor in colorectal cancer. Varun Ponnusamy et al. DDW 2023 Poster Presentation
Post Graduate Career: Yale MD/PhD
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
Publication: 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
Post Graduate Career: University of Miami MD
Lucy Zhao
MIT
Project: Ingestible, autonomous gastric balloon for long term weight loss, drug delivery, and sensing.
Awards: Association of MIT Alumnae (AMITA) Award 2024 (highest level of academic excellence)
Post Graduate Career: Harvard Medical School MD