2024 Young Guts Scholars
Lara Cheesman
Johns Hopkins
Project: Comprehensive Pain Assessment Tool for Chronic Pancreatitis-Short Form (COMPAT-Sf) Pain Questionnaire for Hispanic Patients with Painful Chronic Pancreatitis
Cass Condray
University of Oklahoma (Mentor at Mayo Clinic)
Project: Panic! At The Bathroom: Biopsychosocial and Physical Impacts of Bathroom Bans on Transgender Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients
Publication: Challenges in IBD Research 2024: Preclinical Human IBD Mechanisms, Inflamm Bowel Dis: 2024 May 23;30(Supplement_2):S5-S18
Awards: Mayo Clinic NAPP Award 2024; Panelist in Crohn's and Colitis Foundation's IBD Plexus Panel for 2024 and 2025; Association of Native American Medical Students/ANAMS research grant to study IBD disparities in Indigenous communities
Daniel Juarez
Columbia
Project: Increasing Epithelial Serotonin as a Novel, Effective Remedy for Anxiety and Depression: A Paradigm Shift in Novel Treatment Approaches for Mood Disorders.
Post Graduate Career: NYU Dentistry Research
Rafaella Lavalle Lacerda de Almeida
Michigan State University
Project: Role of enteric glial prostaglandin E2 in enteric neuroplasticity and dysmotility following colonic inflammation
Jason Lin
University of Michigan
Project: Project: Defining the Therapeutic Role of Malic Enzymes Dependence in Pancreatic Cancer
Post Graduate Career: University of Pennsylvania Cell Biology PhD
Riya Malhotra
Michigan State University
Project: Uncovering mechanisms of T cell-epithelial cell interactions under healthy and diseased conditions
Publication: Ulcerative colitis-derived intestinal epithelial cells are protected from cell death by the immune mediators released from resting and activated systemic T cells. Riya Malhotra et al. Presented at the 2024 Crohn's & Colitis Congress
Post Graduate Career: Case Western MD
Brian Nguyen
Brown (Mentor at Stanford)
Project: Family Income-to-Poverty Ratio Differences in Characteristics and Mortality of Patients with Chronic Liver Disease in the United States, 1999 – 2018
Post Graduate Career: Pastor
Mahmoud “Moody” Salem
Stony Brook University
Project: The Regulation of p27 via K17 in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma