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2023 College of Pharmacy Research Day
The 14th Annual Research day was a great success, with 790 posters presented, a fantastic keynote seminar by Dr. Eric G. Pamer, and great participation from our alumni and external colleagues from industry, including 49 poster judges. We would like to thank our University supporters (UI Health Research Registry, OTM Innovate@UIC, UI Cancer Center, AAPS, ISPOR, and ISPE) and other outside donors (Swanson Family Research Day Fund) that provided funds for the event and poster awards.
Speakers & Awards Heading link
Keynote Presentation: ” Resurrecting the Intestinal Microbiota to Combat Antibiotic-Resistant Pathogens“
Director, Duchossois Family Institute
Donald F. Steiner ProfessorDepartments of Medicine, Microbiology, and Pathology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Hans W. Vahlteich Research Award: “Type 2 Diabetes Treatment Pathways by Socioeconomic Indicators from Electronic Healthcare Records and Geospatial Analytics“
Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacy Systems, Outcomes, & Policy
Hans W. Vahlteich Research Award: “Engineered macrophages for regulating inflammations in ARDS“
Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Research Impact Award: Medicinal Chemistry & Pharmacognosy, 2003
Edward and Josephine Mika Professor & University Scholar
Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education
Pharmaceutical Sciences, UIC College of Pharmacy
2022 Graduate Student Awards and External Trainee Awards Heading link
This year, we have given out over $30,000 in graduate student awards & scholarships, travel awards, and recruiting scholarships. To see who received which award and for the list of other significant external awards received by our graduate students and postdocs, click on the link below.
2023 Poster Award Winners Heading link
2023 Poster Award Winners
| Category | Place | Authors | Title | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biology: Molecular & Cell Biology; Mechanism of Action | UIC College of Pharmacy Award for Excellence in Research 1st Place | Manead Khin, Manuel Rangel-Grimaldo, Huzefa A. Raja, Ziwei Zhang, Julia Ekiert, Nicholas H. Oberlies, Yu Gao, Joanna E. Burdette | Wheldone, a Fungal Secondary Metabolite, Downregulates HNRNPD, a DNA Damage Repair Protein |  |
| Biology: Molecular & Cell Biology; Mechanism of Action | UIC College of Pharmacy Award for Excellence in Research 2nd Place | Kasra Alizadeh, Nora Vazquez-Laslop, Shura Mankin | Developing a Fully Orthogonal Translation System in Bacteria |  |
| Biology: Molecular & Cell Biology; Mechanism of Action | UIC College of Pharmacy Award for Excellence in Research 3rd Place | Cory Matsumoto, Xinhao Shao, Marko Bogosavljevic, Chris Grams, Ziwei Zhang, Liang Chen, Yu Gao | Automated Container-less Cell Processing System for Single-cell Multiomics |  |
| Chemistry: Discovery, Modeling, Design & Evaluation of Novel Drugs; Detection & Delivery Systems | UIC College of Pharmacy Award for Excellence in Research 1st Place | Lisa E. Rusali,Andrew P. Riley | Efforts Toward a Biomimetic Synthesis of the Aristotelia alkaloids |  |
| Chemistry: Discovery, Modeling, Design & Evaluation of Novel Drugs; Detection & Delivery Systems | UIC College of Pharmacy Award for Excellence in Research 2nd Place | John Sloan, Irina Gaisina, Ryan Bott, Saad Alqarni, Ryan Bott, Laura Cooper, Lijun Rong, Terry W. Moore | Development and Pharmacokinetic Evaluation of Imidazo[1,2-a]pyrimidines as Novel Influenza A Entry Inhibitors Targeting Group Two Hemagglutinin |  |
| Chemistry: Discovery, Modeling, Design & Evaluation of Novel Drugs; Detection & Delivery Systems | UIC College of Pharmacy Award for Excellence in Research 3rd Place | Elizabeth Kaweesa, Jaqueline Bazioli, Herma Pierre, Daniel Lantvit, Samuel Kulp, Kasey Hill, Mitchell Phelps, Christopher Coss, James Fuchs, Cedric Pearce, Nicholas Oberlies, Joanna E. Burdette | Verticillin Cytotoxic Activity in High Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer in Preclinical In vitro and In vivo Models |  |
| Clinical, Social, and Applied Sciences | UIC College of Pharmacy Award for Excellence in Research 1st Place | Brooke N. Curry, Nidhi Singh, Arunkumar Karunanidhi, Osayamen Obanor, Nene Bah, Alan Gross, Zackery P. Bulman | Assessing Antibiotic Combinations for Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Providencia stuartii Isolates to Aid Clinical Decision Making |  |
| Clinical, Social, and Applied Sciences | UIC College of Pharmacy Award for Excellence in Research 2nd Place | Arunkumar Karunanidhi, Nidhi Singh, Brooke N. Curry, Zackery P. Bulman | Optimizing Combination Dosing Strategies for Carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae: Does Timing of Antibiotic Administration Matter? |  |
| Clinical, Social, and Applied Sciences | UIC College of Pharmacy Award for Excellence in Research 3rd Place | Yifan Wang, Rodrigo Burgos, Larry H. Danziger, Emily N. Drwiega | Clinical Outcomes of Candida auris Infections at an Academic Medical Center |  |
| Innovate@UIC Innovation Award | 1st Place | Chih-Jia Chao, Zongmin Zhao | Antigen Capturing Nanoparticle Transformed Dendritic Cell Therapy (ACT-DC) for Cancer Immunization |  |
| Innovate@UIC Innovation Award | 2nd Place | Dahee Jung, Wonkyung Oh, Seung-Oe Lim, Steve S.-Y. Lee | Engineered Anti-CD40 Agonist Antibody as a Novel Cancer Neoantigen Vaccine Delivery System |  |
| UI Cancer Center Cancer Science Prize | 1st Place | Monica A. Haughan, Tova M. Bergsten , Hannah J. Lusk, Aloysius J. Klingelhutz, Laura M. Sanchez, Joanna E. Burdette | Probing the Molecular Crosstalk Between Ovarian Cancer and Omentum |  |
| UI Cancer Center Cancer Science Prize | 2nd Place | Joohyun Im, Yi-Chien Wu, Dan D. Lantvit, Steve S.-Y. Lee, Barbara C. Vanderhyden, Joanna E. Burdette | The Critical Role of PAX8 in High-Grade Serous Cancer Survival and its Therapeutic Implications |  |
| American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists Student Chapter Choice Award | 1st Place | Deanna Aman, Diandra Vaval Taylor, Nancy E. Freitag | Characterizing the pPplA Peptide Pheromone that Contributes to both Listeria monocytogenes Vacuole Escape and Bacterial Fitness |  |
| ISPOR Student Chapter Choice Award | 1st Place | Sodam Kim,Kibum Kim, Przemysław B. Radwański, Mark A. Munger | Riluzole Mitigates the Risk of Heart Failure: A Retrospective Cohort Study |  |
| ISPE Student Chapter Choice Award | 1st Place | Abdullah Abdelaziz, Charles E. Gaber, Todd A. Lee | High Throughput Screening for Roflumilast Adverse Effects in Real-World Settings |  |
