Welcome New CCTS Trainees!

New KL2 Trainees

Joseph Bednash, MD, Assistant Professor, College of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine. Project Title: The Role of Deubiquitinases in SARS-CoV-2 ARDS. Lead Mentor: Rama Mallampalli, MD

Sushmitha Durgam, DVM, PhD. Assistant Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine, Department Veterinary Clinical Sciences. Project Title: Integrating tenocyte and macrophage phenotypes to identify novel tendon fibrosis mechanisms. Lead Mentor: Prosper Boyaka, PhD

New Path to K Trainees

Funded by the Davis-Bremer endowments in the College of Medicine:

Daryl McLeod, MD, Assistant Professor, Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Project Title: A targeted approach to improving kidney failure prediction in children with congenital urinary tract obstruction. Lead Mentor: Peter Minneci, MD, MS.

Ashley Pariser, MD, Assistant Professor, College of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine. Proejct Title: Optimizing Delivery of Cancer Survivorship Education to Community Healthcare Professionals. Lead Mentor: Seuli Brill, MD.

New TL1 Trainees

Kristen Fox, PhD. Postdoc at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Project Title: E-cigarette and Tobacco Use Patterns of Adolescent Congenital Heart Disease Survivors. Lead Mentor:  Jamie Jackson, MD

Victoria Diedrichs. Doctoral student in Department of Speech & Hearing Science. Project Title: Neural Compensation in the Language Network. Lead Mentor:  Stacy Harnish, PhD, CCC-SLP

Aaren Kettelhut. An MD/PhD student in the Biomedical Science Graduate Program. Project Title: Altered Cardiovascular Disease Risk in HIV-infected Transgender Women on Estrogen Therapy. Lead Mentor: Nicholas Funderburg, PhD

Wesley Wang. MD/PhD student in the Neuroscience Graduate Program. Project Title: Machine Learning Based Workflows for Identification of Novel Features to Guide Differentiation of Glioblastoma Progression versus Pseudoprogression. Lead Mentor: Jose Otero, MD, PhD