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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Changing the Map of Teen Pregnancy in Indiana is a evidence-based prevention program in place to help educate the youth. This evidence base prevention program is used to advocate for the health and wellness of adolescence by...
Animal welfare refers to the state of the well-being of an animal. In terms of treatment, this includes animal care, animal husbandry, and humane treatment. The objective of my research at the Laboratory Animal Resource Center...
Encephalitis is the widespread attack of inflammation of the active tissues in the brain while encephalomyelitis involves the inflammation of the brain and spinal cord which affects an estimated 2.5 million Americans. This is...
Substance use disorder and risky sexual behavior is becoming exceedingly common in younger demographics due to its normalization in school and social environments. Certain factors, such as a family history of substance abuse...
Cerebral Palsy (CP) is a common disorder in children that affects muscle movement and coordination. It is caused by abnormal brain development, oftentimes due to the lack of oxygen and nutrients delivering to the brain while a...
The Susan G. Komen Tissue Bank (KTB) is the world’s only biorepository that collects and stores normal breast tissue, matching serum, and plasma that researchers around the world can study. The KTB’s mission...
This project consists of supporting research regarding defining physician wellness to reach a consensus on the first official definition of physician wellness, as agreed upon by expert family medicine faculty and physicians...
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is a highly malignant, difficult-to-treat brain tumor with a median survival time of only 15-20 months. GBM treatments are especially hard to deliver because most drugs cannot cross the blood brain...
The lab focuses on radiation oncology and understanding and improving the radiation response of ovarian and pancreatic cancer. Over the course of my internship, I have been working with the SKOV, SKOV-AX (genetically altered by...
Starting in mid-July, I began working under Dr. Rebecca McNally Keehn and Angela Rae Paxton and the Pediatric and Adolescent Comparative Effectiveness Research (PACER) team in the Department of Pediatrics at the IU School of...
Dr. Scott Aoki’s laboratory at the IU School of Medicine in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology focuses on is focused on developing new experimental methods to study the molecular mechanisms of...
The Comprehensive Pain Assessment Clinic is a clinic that specializes in assessing patients living with chronic pain. Chronic pain can be described as pain that lasts for years and interferes with day-to-day activities such as...
My internship is at the IU Health Neuroscience Center under Dr. Apostolova. The Longitudinal Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease Study (LEADS) is focused on understanding the disease progression in order to develop clinical...
The lab focuses on radiation oncology and understanding and improving the radiation response of ovarian and pancreatic cancer. Over the course of the internship, we have been working with SKOV and SKOV-AX (genetically altered...
The objective of my internship was to test drugs that could be used as a cancer treatment as an alternative to chemotherapy or radiation therapy which come with severe side effects. The drugs focused are in this project were...
The Kids Healthcast podcast strives to make health information easily accessible to parents in the Indianapolis community and beyond. The podcast offers a way for listeners to understand the role that social determinants of...
My site is doing research on the importance of social factors of health as well as finding available resources to assist families in the communities. We record monthly episodes about various health topics for parents and...
Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is a genetic disorder characterized by hyperactivity and intellectual disability. FXS is the result of FMR1 gene inactivation on the X chromosome. FMR1 encodes for FMR protein, which likely plays a role...
By 2030 21% of the U.S. population will be over 65 years old. Multiple diseases associated with aging correlate with chronic inflammation. Previous studies have shown that aging results in an "immunosenescent" state...
Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is characterized by progressive decline in kidney function and one of the most common side effects is increased bone fragility. People who have CKD, therefore, have an increased risk of bone...
Streptococcus mutans is an oral bacterium commonly attributed to the formation of cavities on teeth. Red raspberries (RR) contain ellagic acid (EA) that is able to prevent bacterial growth. It is known that nicotine usage...
The Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) was founded in 2008 with the mission to improve health challenges across Indiana. The CTSI has assisted over 5,000 investigators conduct research studies and has...
Pancreatic cancer has approximately 50,000 deaths per year in the United States, making it the fifth leading cause of cancer death. The goal of this study was to evaluate expression of the LIMK2 biomarker in pancreatic cancer...
At Dr. Hummer’s Media and Brain Development Lab, we are testing whether virtual reality can help adolescents with disruptive behavior disorders see other perspectives. In my role, I review different versions of the...
Social functioning is an important aspect of everyday life and impacts how individuals interact with the world around them. Individuals with early phase psychosis often have impairments in social functioning and, if not...
Elevated Intraocular pressure (IOP) is thought to be the major risk factor of Primary Open Angle Glaucoma (POAG), an eye disease that results in the irreversible loss of peripheral vision and blindness. The only way to treat or...
Many of the underlying mechanisms of neuron degeneration are highly conserved throughout neurodegenerative diseases. To further understand neurodegeneration, human pluripotent stem cells are differentiated into neurons, and...
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. Currently, medical imaging is critical for diagnosis and treatment planning. Development of better imaging tools could improve medical imaging accuracy and save...
Biomarkers and metabolites are compounds that can be measured in clinical patients that help inform physicians about the progression of various illnesses. Thus, detection of those compounds in plasma and serum is an area of...
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a complication of the eye due to long-standing diabetes, affecting 131.66 million people worldwide. DR is characterized by damage to the tiny blood vessels supplying blood to the eye; in some...
My internship was with RIME (Research in Medical Education) Unit in the School of Medicine. One of the functions of this unit is to create reports for the IUSM (Indiana University School of Medicine) and the IMEB (Indiana...
I currently study the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. I am characterizing a protein named Tousled-Like Kinase (TLK) that plays an important role in the poorly understood process of parasite mitosis. Despite the...
Gender expansive adolescents refer to adolescents who expand notions of gender identity and expression beyond societal norms. Gender expansive adolescents are at a higher risk for physical, emotional, and mental abuse,...
RNA has long been a point of fascination within the fields of molecular and developmental biology. This is because of its ability to act as both a substrate (binding site) and as an enzyme; essentially RNA can catalyze its own...
Life expectancies, number of surgeries, and chemotherapy treatments are common to be reported to a pediatric physician database to calculate information, such as tendencies of patient's outcome and statistics of...
This web-based survey aims to examine and compare the needs of international medical graduates (IMGs) and their US peers. A comprehensive literature review was conducted, and sample topics and questions were pulled from other...
Goals of care conversations are essential in determining patient preferences when it comes to advanced prognoses. Because each patient is different in terms of their values, goals, and treatment plans, the course of their...
Oral health is vital to an individual’s overall health as studies have shown that untreated oral diseases can increase the risk of adverse health conditions. Our research focuses on studying the effects of various...
The LifeRAFT (Lifespan Reward, Affective, and Family Ties) Project explores how early life stress and family factors affect youth brain and behavior outcomes. Early life stress is a serious public health problem with lasting...
The study is being conducted at IU Health Methodist, University, West, and North hospitals. We are gathering information by conducting interviews focusing on populations that are typically overlooked. These populations include...
