Below, explore the work of students in the Life-Health Sciences Internship Program with last names beginning with A through L.
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Pulmonary hypertension (PH) includes various, often fatal, diseases caused by high blood pressure in the lung, impacting pulmonary arteries and the cardiac muscle in the right side of the heart. Female patients with pulmonary...
The IU school of Medicine’s Media and Development Lab, is focused on the intersection of digital media use and brain development, including understanding the positive and negative influences of media use in children. I am...
My project for this internship experience was to compare three different tissue analysis computer image analysis platforms with factors such as user friendliness and overall performance. To determine the performance of these...
I primarily work under Dr. Sarah Honaker as a research assistant, and I perform retrospective chart review to examine racial/ethnic disparities in diagnosis of pediatric obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). I also shadow Jonathan...
An adverse drug reaction can be described as any unexpected outcome which occurs following the consumption of a drug. This reaction may occur in the form of a rash, anemia, or a number of other health-related issues. In order...
This project consists of understanding the treatment patterns in an Integrated health primary care clinic for rising mental health concerns. When patients see their regular family practitioner, they often report having symptoms...
This project is a systemic review of research detailing the meaning-making and self-recovery process for individuals with psychosis. Psychosis often involves the loss of identity and inhibited metacognition. This keeps...
The main purpose of the studies was to evaluate different markers of endothelial integrity in the setting of acute kidney injury with or without novel treatments aimed at mitigating vascular damage. Acute kidney injury induces...
Our research focuses on an observational study conducted between 2002-2009 of women that received buprenorphine and methadone opioid therapy treatments during their pregnancy at Wishard Memorial Hospital in Indianapolis, IN....
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) affects millions of Americans and patients frequently incur bone loss and iron deficiency. My research focuses on the intersection of these two co-morbidities. Histone deacetylase 4 (HDAC4) is...
This study aimed to understand the morphological differences within the ACL complex (i.e. the anterior cruciate ligament, insertions, and surrounding bone) in pubescent mice that voluntary ran on resistive cage wheels for 4...
Osteocytes are the most numerous cells in the bone and the most mechanosensitive. Mechanotransduction is the ability of a cell to sense a stimulus and be able to convert that stimuli from mechanical to biochemical signals....
For LSHI, I have the chance to work with Dr. Leslie Hulvershorn and her team. Her team is working to find neural response connections with risky decision making in youth that at are risk for substance use. Together they use...
My internship is in the Division of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology at Riley Hospital for Children with Dr. Emily Mueller and her research assistant, Anneli Cochrane. One of the major projects we have been working on is the...
Each year since 2012, the Office of Research in Medical Education gathers survey data on family medicine residents from 12 Indiana family medicine residency programs. The goal of this survey is to get a better understanding of...
The lab site that I work at is interested in understanding the nature of kidney injury, specifically the types of kidney injuries that lead to a reduction of function in the kidneys, as well as the processes that mediate kidney...
The goals of this project are to create a partnership between faith leaders and IU Health to enhance the care and health of faith leaders, faith community members, and local communities. This begins with partnering with a faith...
Congenital anomalies occur in approximately 3% of live births and are the leading cause of perinatal death. Parents faced with these diagnoses experience unexpected trauma and grief, loss of anticipated parenting roles, and...
Old world primates are primates that are represented today by living monkeys in Africa, Asia, and Europe. A subgroup of these primates are Cercopithecoids. My project analyzes the cusp proportions of maxillary and mandible...
For my project, I would like to outline the steps of clinical research as well as what research looks like at my internship site, the Indiana Alzheimer’s Research Center (the Clinical Core). By doing this, I want to...
In order to be classified as mesenchymal stem cells, the ISCT has certain requirements that must be met. These requirements include positive surface antigen expression of CD105, CD73, and CD90, and negative surface antigen...
In this role, I have had the opportunity to work with Dr. Leslie Enane and her research assistant Ms. Judith Toromo. Our main focus throughout this internship has been to explore how HIV stigma influences adolescent retention...
The purpose of this research project is to study newborns born with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS), a condition where a baby was exposed to drugs in utero and experiences withdrawal symptoms once born. Indiana has the...
Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease. Pancreatic beta cells are destroyed and insulin which regulates the body's glucose metabolism are dangerously low. There are five autoantibodies associated with type one...
My current internship is called the “IU Brain Imaging Study”, we are affiliated with the IU School of Medicine’s department of Psychiatry. My supervisor is Dr. Leslie Hulvershorn who is a Clinical Psychologist...
During the 2020-2021 school year I have interned with HANDS in Autism and I have assisted in delivering Pre-employment Transition (Pre-ETS) services to individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and related disabilities....
Osteoporosis affects 50% of women and 20% of men, which may lead to bone fracture. There are three major bone cell types. The primary function of osteoclasts is bone resorption, while osteoblasts work to form bone. Once...
For my LHSI internship, I prepared biological tools to assist in the study of Plasmodium Falciparum, which is the parasite that causes malaria. My work consisted of cloning recombinant DNA that allowed for the study of specific...
Learning how to better provide quality patient-centered care starts with focusing on the physical needs of patients, as well as their mental and emotional needs. Taking this approach and seeking out various barriers that...
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is a highly malignant brain tumor with a poor prognosis despite aggressive surgery and radiochemotherapy options. The current standard of care treatment fails the vast majority of patients because...
After synthesis, proteins undergo further alterations in the form of post-translational modifications (PTMs). One of the common types of PTMs present in the proteome is lysine methylation, catalyzed by lysine methyltransferases...
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a sleep disorder which involves common episodes of decreased airflow caused by throat muscles relaxing blocking oxygen exchange. This regular occurrence can harm the growth and general...
In my internship site, we are focused primarily on the synthesis and therapeutic application of one type of artificial nucleic acid molecules – the mirror-image DNA and RNA molecules. These structures are created by using...
The Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) was established in 2008 and is a part of 61 Clinical and Translational Science centers in the United States. It is a statewide research partnership between...
Genetic modification of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) may allow further improvement of their therapeutic potential through promotion or suppression of gene expression. An additional benefit of MSCs as a gene delivery system is...
Background: HPV is a cancer prevention vaccine, and cancer survivors and African Americans are at higher risk for HPV-related cancers. HPV vaccine hesitancy is a serious problem among cancer survivors and minoritized...
