We’re proud to announce the six undergraduate students selected as our 2022-2023 Young Guts Scholar Program recipients. These scholars will participate in mentored research related to digestive diseases throughout the academic year. The goal of this award is to encourage students racial/ethnic and/or other groups traditionally underrepresented in biomedical research to pursue careers in science or medicine, ultimately to expand the pipeline of investigators in digestive disease research.
Click below to view each student’s research project focus.
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Lucy Zhao, MIT
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Andrew Tran, Duke University
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Sohaib Hassan, Rutgers University
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Varun Ponnasumy, University of Michigan
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Daniella Montalvo, University of Miami
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Sara Chough, Columbia University
Lucy Zhao, MIT
Ingestible, autonomous gastric balloon for long-term weight loss, drug delivery, and sensing
Andrew Tran, Duke University
Hepatocellular carcinoma risk in untreated versus treated chronic hepatitis B patients with indeterminate phase: A multi-center study with inverse probability treatment weighting
Sohaib Hassan, Rutgers University
Effect of epithelial signaling on mesenchyme during tumorigenesis and tissue regeneration
Varun Ponnasumy, University of Michigan
Mineralocorticoid receptor: a novel tumor suppressor in colorectal cancer
Daniella Montalvo, University of Miami
Effects of DUOX2 dysregulation in colonic epithelial barrier integrity in ulcerative colitis
Sara Chough, Columbia University
Deciphering fibroblast-myeloid cell interactions in PDAC
