Each year, the Department of Surgery celebrates Research Week, bringing together the work of our residents, faculty, staff and community partners representing the significant areas within the department related to research in health informatics, translational, clinical and educational exploration.

Our robust research programs provide the opportunity to participate in scientific discovery and clinical innovation. We have a rich history of renowned basic and clinical science research, distinguishing ourselves as an academic and clinical center of excellence.

Research Week: Grand Rounds Lecture Series

Tuesday, October 10, 2023 | 7:00 to 8:30 am | Location: MT 5-125 & Zoom

- For Zoom details, contact Michelle Lunden at lund0538@umn.edu

Please join us for Research Week Grand Rounds with faculty experts Drs. Genevieve Melton-Meaux, Stephen Huddleston & John Osborn!

  • Moderated by Dr. Masato Yamamoto | Eugene C. and Gail V. Sit Chair in Pancreatic and Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Vice-Chair of Surgical Science

  • Introduction by: Dr. Sayeed Ikramuddin | Jay Phillips Professor & Chair of the Department of Surgery

  • Each of the three speakers will give a 20-minute talk, with five minutes allotted for questions after each talk.

Research Week: Poster Session Event

Thursday, October 12 | 3:30 to 7:00 pm | Location: Coffman Great Hall

Over 100+ abstracts will be on display! 

View all of the abstracts in the Poster Session Digital Program.

All faculty, staff, students and community researchers are invited to present their work and as in past years, we hope to have broad representation from each division and invite our adjunct faculty members to participate. Abstracts recently presented at meetings are also encouraged! Judges from around the Medical School will visit posters for awarding.

The judges will be given a scoring sheet with 1-9 score range with 1 being exceptional and 9 being the lowest (NIH scale). The criteria include - poster content, presentation and impact of the research.

Research Week Abstract Awards

There will be three categories for judging clinical/educational & basic/translational research. Prizes to be awarded first, second, and third place in each category.

Clinical/Educational Research

  1. First Prize: $1,000 Travel Award
  2. Second Prize: $750 Travel Award
  3. Third Prize: $500 Travel Award

Basic/Translational Research

  1. First Prize: $1,000 Travel Award
  2. Second Prize: $750 Travel Award
  3. Third Prize: $500 Travel Award

Abstract Posters Winners Archive

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Abstract Posters Winners Archive

2023

Clinical/Education Research

First Place: William Miller
"The Importance of p12INK4a: A Biomarker of Frailty in Liver Transplant Recipients"
Travel Award: $1,000
Second Place: Nayara Pestana-Oliveira
"Chemically induced perimenopause increases MAP in a salt sensitive model of hypertension." 
Travel Award: $750
Third Place (awarded two third-place prizes): McKenzie White
"Missing, not Forgotten: Missing Data by Cancer Center Accreditation in Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results"
Travel Award: $500
 
Allison Stephenson
"The Development of a Novel CTLA-4lg Fusion Protein for use in Non-Human Primate Transplant models"
Travel Award: $500
 

Basic/Translational Research

First Place: Maria Martell
"Intestinal Inflammation has a Greater Impact on Female Fertility than Natural Microbial Exposure in a Co-housed Mouse Model" 
Travel Award: $1,000
Second Place: Parthsarathy Rangarajan
"Multi-Tissue-Organoid Derived Exosomes for the Treatment of Osteoarthritis"
Travel Award: $750
Third Place: Sierra Palmer
"A translational nonhuman primate model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy using cardiotoxin-induction in target muscle"
Travel Award: $500

2022

Clinical/Education Research

First Place: Taylor Krivanek
"Assess readability of FDA labeling for breast implants"
Travel Award: $1,000
Second Place: Alex Dayton, MD
"Loss of Protection from Salt-Sensitive Hypertension in T-cell Deficient SSCD247-/- Rats Enables the Isolation of the Pathological Effects of Renal T-cells from Hypertension"
Travel Award: $750
Third Place: David Leishman, MD
"Characterization of gut microbiome on tacrolimus metabolism in transplanted nonhuman primates"
Travel Award: $500
 

Basic/Translational Research

First Place: Jillian Wothe
"Evaluation of Minnesota Score in the Allocation of Venovenous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation During Resource Scarcity"
Travel Award: $1,000
Second Place: Maria Martell
"The Impact of the Kras and ApcΔ468 Oncogenes on the Colorectal Cancer Microbiome"
Travel Award: $750
Third Place: Courtney Broedlow
"A longitudinal investigation of reoccurring bacterial vaginosis"
Travel Award: $500

Congratulations to our 2023 abstract poster winners representing research in health informatics, translational, clinical, and educational exploration! 

Clinical/Education Research

First Place: William Miller
"The Importance of p12INK4a: A Biomarker of Frailty in Liver Transplant Recipients"
Travel Award: $1,000
Second Place: Nayara Pestana-Oliveira
"Chemically induced perimenopause increases MAP in a salt sensitive model of hypertension." 
Travel Award: $750
Third Place (awarded two third-place prizes): McKenzie White
"Missing, not Forgotten: Missing Data by Cancer Center Accreditation in Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results"
Travel Award: $500
 
Allison Stephenson
"The Development of a Novel CTLA-4lg Fusion Protein for use in Non-Human Primate Transplant models"
Travel Award: $500

Basic/Translational Research

First Place: Maria Martell
"Intestinal Inflammation has a Greater Impact on Female Fertility than Natural Microbial Exposure in a Co-housed Mouse Model" 
Travel Award: $1,000
Second Place: Parthsarathy Rangarajan
"Multi-Tissue-Organoid Derived Exosomes for the Treatment of Osteoarthritis"
Travel Award: $750
Third Place: Sierra Palmer
"A translational nonhuman primate model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy using cardiotoxin-induction in target muscle"
Travel Award: $500