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Founders' Medal Award

Congratulations to Don Rockey, MD, Medical University of South Carolina, the SSCI's 2024 Founders' Medal Award recipient!
Mentors of the Year Award
Desiree Burroughs-Ray, MD, MPH
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Vivian A. Fonseca, MD
Tulane University School of Medicine
Amit Gaggar, MD, PhD
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Tinsley Harrison Award

The 2024 Tinsley Harrison Award was presented to, Timothy Wilson, MD, Thomas Jefferson University, for his paper entitled "Serum Antibodies to Peptidylarginine Deiminase-4 In Rheumatoid Arthritis Associated-Interstitial Lung Disease Are Associated With Decreased Lung Fibrosis And Improved Survival".
SSCI Research Scholar Award
Fabian Bock, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
"RAC1 and the Actin Cytoskeleton in Renal Tubular Repair"

SSCI Awards
SSCI Young Investigators Award

First
Juliet Strauss, Tulane University Health Sciences Center
"Translesion Synthesis Polymerases Affect Mutagenesis And Response To DNA Damaging Agents In Mutant Pole Cells"

Second
Robert Clark, Tulane University Health Sciences Center
"Anti-CD20 Attenuates Lung Humoral And Cellular Immune Responses: Implications For Gene Therapy In Cystic Fibrosis"

Third
Giovanni Zlaket, Ochsner Clinic Foundation
"Additive Risk For Pericardial Effusion Of Exposure To Either Hydralazine Or Minoxidil And Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease"
SSCI Young Investigator Award in General Internal Medicine

Grace Yang, Tulane University
"Naloxone Distribution Associated With Increased Bystander Naloxone Administration Before Ems Overdose Calls"
Nathan Solomon & Irene Oransky-Solomon Medical Student Awards
First Place

Grace Kim, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
"Effects Of SARS-COV-2 Variants On CD8+ T Cell Epitope Diversity: Estimating Clinical Severity In The United States Population"
Second Place

Ashlyn Anderson, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
"Prevention and Reversal of Furosemide-Induced Diuretic Resistance Using the Kappa Opioid Receptor Agonist Nalfurafine"
SSCI Poster Awards
First Place
Christopher Axelrod, Pennington Biomedical Research Center
"Restricting Bioenergetic Efficiency Enhances Longevity And Mitochondrial Redox Capacity In Drosophila Melanogaster"

Second Place
Morgan Ford, University of Tennessee Health Science Center
"Reproducibility Of Urinary Albumin-To-Creatinine Ratio And Its Association With Prediabetes Risk"

Third Place
Zikora Nnadike, Emory University School of Medicine
"Quality Improvement Project Addressing Involuntary Discharged Hemodialysis Patients In Urban Predominantly Black"

SSCI Tinsley Harrison Scholars

SSCI Student Research Award

SSCI Trainee Research Award

SSCI Young Faculty Research Awards
