2008 NIH Summer Research Program

June 2nd - August 8th  2008 

University of Massachusetts Medical School 
55 Lake Avenue North
Worcester, Massachusetts 01655-0132
Co- Program Directors: 

Deborah Harmon Hines, Ph.D.
Associate Vice Chancellor for School Services
 
and Professor of Cell  Biology 
and 
Janet Stein, Ph.D. 
Professor of Cell  Biology 
 

Karen J. Zirpola
Program Coordinator
 
NIH Summer Research Program 
School Services 

University of Massachusetts Medical School 
Telephone   (508) 856-5033
Toll Free:   (877) 395-3149
Fax:   (508) 856-4888
summer.research@umassmed.edu 

GOALS

  • Attract under-represented, disadvantaged and disabled students into biomedical and behavioral research careers in the area of heart, lung and blood disorders.
  • Increase the number of applicants from targets groups to the Graduate Schools of Biomedical Science at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

ELIGIBILITY

Participants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents of the United States. No students accepted with Student Visa status.

PROGRAM

Sponsored by the Office of School Services, this program is funded by the National Institutes of Health and the UMMS Office of Research. The program targets disadvantaged,under-represented and disabled students.

 
There is no Massachusetts  residency requirement for the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences or the Graduate School of Nursing.


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2007 NIH Summer Research Program

2007 NIH Summer Research Program Participants

Student School Sponsor Project/Name

Ivonne Andujar-de Sanctis, UPR Rio Redras 2009

Steve Grossman Ph.D., Cancer Biology

"ARF/CtBP2 Interaction Promotes the Expression of the Pro-Apoptotic Gene BIK" 

Adrian Cora Morges, UPR Mayaguez 2008

Jaime Rivera, Ph.D., Cell Biology 

"Visualization of Early Mouse Embryo With Fluorescence Tracers"

Christina Gutierrez, Amherst College 2009

Elliot Androphy, Ph.D., Medicine

"Characterization of SMN expression in SMA fibroblasts"

Rashad Hardaway, Worcester Polytechnic Institute 2008

Robert Finberg, Ph.D., Medicine

"Murine in-vivo infection model of enhanced green fluorescent protein coxsackievirus B3"

Soana LaGuerre, Worcester Polytechnic Institute 2009

George Witman, Ph.D., Cell Biology

"GFP Tagging of Chlamydomonas PF16, a protein required for flagellar motility" 

Ryan Jajosky, Worcester Polytechnic Institute  2008 

Anthony Imbalzano,Ph.D., Cell Biology 

"Does Adipose Differentiation Require either PRMT4 or PRMT5 Chromatin Remodeling Enzymes?"

Julio Rodriguez, UMass Amherst 2010

Jean A. King, Ph.D.,Psychiatry-Neuroimage Research

"Effects of Varenicline, A Non-Addictive Smoking Cessation Drug, on Working Memory and Cognitive Ability" 

Nnenna Minimah, W. Virginia University 2007

Oliver Rando, Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology

"Scanning for effects of paternal diet on gene expression patterns in offspring"

Najwa Mohammad, Weslyan GA 2008

Michael Brodsky, Ph.D., Gene Function & Expression

"Identifying cis-regulatory Mutations in Drosophila Proapoptotic Genes hid, rpr and skl" 

Paloma Monroig, UPR Mayaguez 2009

John Leong, Ph.D., Molecular Genetics & Microbiol

" Potential role of B1b lymphocytes in providing immunity to the Lyme Disease Spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi"

Oranmiyan Nelson, Michagin State 2009

Gyongyi Szabo M.D. Ph.D., Rheumatology 

" The  Influence of Ca2+-activated potassium channels (BK channels) on Alcohol-mediated impairment of
TLR4-induced Macrophage Activation"

Kristy Webster, Yale University 2008

Pranoti Mandrekar, Ph.D., Rhuematology 

Delineating the Protein Interaction Network Mediating HIV-1 Rev Function using Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET)"

Dianna Williams, Hofstra University 2009

Maria Zapp, Ph.D., Molecular Medicine

"The effects of chronic ethanol on lipopolysaccharide-induced NF-κB and Heat Shock Factor 1 DNA binding"

 Chinonyelum Obih, Xavier University

Maria Zapp, Ph.D., Molecular Medicine

"Developing an Assay System to Evaluate HIV-1 Rev Function in Male Germ Cells"  

Neha Sanan, Mt Holyoke College 2009 

Jose R. Lemos Ph.D., Physiology 

"A1 and A2A Adenosine Receptors are Located on Vasopressin and Oxytocin Neurohypophysial Terminals"

Adrienne Taylor, Duke University 2008

Jean A. King, Ph.D.,Psychiatry-Neuroimage Research

"Neuroprotective Agents Change Cognitive Deficits in Parkinson’s Disease"

Juliet Zhang, USC 2008

Anthony Poteete, Ph.D., Molecular & Genitics & Microbiology 

" The expansion of a duplication in the chromosome into an amplified array studied in the bacterium Escherichia coli"

Min Zhang, Worcester Polytechnic InstituteWPI 2008

Jeffery Nickerson, Ph.D., Cell Biology

"The study of PI(4,5)P2 in Nuclear PI Signaling Pathway" 

2007 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Participants

 

Jessica Gutierrez, New Mexico State, 2009

Michael Green, Ph.D., Molecular Medicine                                   

"Structure/Function Analysis of a TBP-related factor, TRF3"
                          

Kimberley Watson, Swarthmore College 2009

Michael Green, Ph.D., Molecular Medicine

"Functional Analysis of Genes Uniquely Expressed in Murine Embryonic Stem Cells" 

 




FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONTACT:

Deborah Harmon Hines, Ph.D. 
Associate Vice Chancellor for School Services
Program Director NIH Summer Research Programs
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Telephone:   (508) 856-2444
or Karen J. Zirpola
Program Coordinator
NIH Summer Research Program
 
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Telephone: (508) 856-5033
Toll Free: (877) 395-3149
Fax: (508) 856-4888
summer.research@umassmed.edu 

Click here to complete an on-line application