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| Third-year medical student Saad Awan discusses his poster at Summer Research Day. |
The event featured Errol Crook, M.D., director of the Center for Healthy Communities and professor and Abraham Mitchell Chair of internal medicine, who presented the lecture “From Bench to Bedside to Community: The Path(s) for Medical Research to Effectively Address Health Disparities.”
There were eight oral presentations, 44 medical student presenters, and nine graduate and undergraduate research students who participated.
Presentations covered a multitude of topics. Arcole Brandon, a second-year medical student, presented research on side effects after COVID-19 vaccination in USA students and employees; while Cade Smelley, a first-year medical student, presented research titled, “Analyzing Conformation-Sensitive Anti-P53 Antibodies in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer.”
The USA Summer Research Program is a 10-week program that allows medical students to develop an appreciation of how research is needed to improve the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases. Accepted entering students or rising second-year students in the USA College of Medicine are eligible to participate. The summer experience includes hands-on research related to basic science and/or clinical medicine, a seminar program that focuses on various scientific and clinical topics, and student presentations.
