UF Health Department of Surgery Issues 2016 Research Awards

The department of surgery held its 12th annual Research Day on March 16, 2016. Michael T. Longaker, MD, MBA, FACS, the Deane P. and Louise Mitchell Professor and vice chair of the department of surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine, was the Lester R. Dragstedt Visiting Professor for the event.

This year’s award recipients are:

CLINICAL/TRANSLATION ABSTRACT ($500):

  • Tyler Loftus, MD (surgery resident and research fellow, Laboratory of Inflammation Biology and Surgical Science): “Early routine bronchoalveolar lavage improves outcomes for a select cohort of intubated trauma patients”

BASIC SCIENCE ABSTRACT ($500):

  • J. Christian Brown, MD (surgery resident and research fellow, research lab of the division of plastic surgery): “Characterization of adipose derived cells from a novel mammalian model of regeneration”

MCGRAY PANCREATIC CANCER RESEARCH ABSTRACT ($500):

  • Song Han, PhD (assistant professor, division of general surgery/GI, oncologic and endocrine surgery): “Mir-205 derived from pancreatic cancer cells induces cxcl10 production by the associated stroma”

MENTORED RESIDENT RESEARCH AWARD ($25,000):

  • Resident: David J. Hall, MD (surgical resident), Faculty mentor: Tiago N. Machuca, MD, PhD (assistant professor, division of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery): “Ex vivo modulation of the Endothelin-1 Axis in a pre-clinical lung transplantation model”

RESEARCH CAREER DEVELOPMENT AWARD ($25,000 EACH):

  • Sooyeon Lee, PhD (assistant professor, division of general surgery/GI, oncologic and endocrine surgery): “The role of mitofusin-1 and mitochondrial dynamics in ischemia/reperfusion injury in old hepatocytes”
  • Elizabeth M. Thomas, DO (assistant professor, division of transplantation surgery): “The use of microfluidics and transcriptomics to implement precision medicine in post solid organ transplant patients”