March 7, 2008
2008 Celebration
of Science
Posters of Distinction
Clinical trials
Independent and Incremental Prognostic Value of Multimarker
Testing in Acute Dyspnea
Shafiq Rehman, MD, Cardiology/Medicine
Epidemiology
Defining a Threshold of Anticoagulation Quality that Leads to
Net Clinical Benefit in Atrial Fibrillation: The ATRIA Study
Daniel Singer, MD, General Medicine
Genetics/Genomics
Mutations in TMPRSS6 Cause Iron-Refractory, Iron Deficiency Anemia
Karin Finberg, MD, Pathology
Large-scale chemical dissection of mitochondrial function
Toshimori Kitami, PhD, Center for Human Genetic Research
Immunology & Inflammation
The Lysophosphatidic Acid Receptor LPA1 Links Pulmonary Fibrosis to
Lung Injury by Mediating Fibroblast Recruitment and Vascular Leak
Andrew Tager, MD, Medicine
Physiology & Metabolism
Metabolic Profiling of the Human Response to an Oral Glucose Challenge
Oded Shaham, MSc, Center for Human Genetic Research
Regulation of longevity by the coordination of fat metabolism and
reproduction
Meng Wang, PhD, Molecular Biology
Other basic research
Identification of Host Proteins Required for HIV Infection Through
a Functional Genomic Screen
Abraham Brass, MD, PhD, Medicine
PD-1 exerts its inhibitory effect on primary human T cells in HIV
by interfering with proximal TCR signaling and targeting downstream signals
associated with proliferation and survival
Quentin Eichbaum, MD, PhD, MPH, Medicine
Reversal of established autoimmune diabetes by H60-loaded immature
dendritic cells plus the natural killer T cells ligand a-Galactosylceramide
Wen Yang, MD, BM, Medicine
Other clinical research
IGF-1 Predicts Abnormal Bone Microarchitecture in Women with Anorexia
Nervosa
Elizabeth A. Lawson, MD, Medicine
Longitudinal fMRI Demonstrates Loss of Hippocampal Signal Associated
With Clinical Decline
Jacqueline O'Brien, Psychiatry/Neurology
A Patient-Tailored Navigator Program for Colorectal Cancer Screening
in a Community Health Center: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Sanja Percac-Lima, MD, PhD, Medicine
Translational
A role for regulatory cells in tolerance induction in recipients of
haploidentical combined non-myeloablative bone marrow and kidney transplantation?
Giovanna Andreola, MD, Transplantation Biology Research Center