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Basic Science Essay Award

2024

No award given

2023

Robert Hart Moore, MD, Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Department of Surgery/Division of Urology
A PORCINE BLADDER MODEL OF PRE-CLINICAL URODYNAMICS DEMONSTRATES INCREASED AFFERENT NERVE ACTIVITY DURING FILLING

2022

Joonbeom Kwon, MD, PhD, Department of Urology, Daegu Fatima Hospital, Daegu, South Korea
Overactive Bladder Medication, How Long Should it be Sustained? Mirabegron Interferes with the Central Sensitization Induced by the Mice Model of Overactive Bladder

2021

Joonbeom Kwon, MD, PhD, Daegu Fatima Hospital
ANTIFIBROTIC TREATMENT BY INHIBITION OF VEGF, FGF, AND PDGF RECEPTORS IMPROVES BLADDER REMODELING AND DETRUSOR OVERACTIVITY BY MODULING C-FIBER ACTIVITY IN SPINAL CORD INJURED MICE

2020

Bradley Potts, MD, Duke University
Barrington’s Reflexes Revisited: Proximal Urethral Electrical Stimulation as a Treatment for Underactive Bladder in Rats

2019

Andrea Balthazar, Virginia Commonwealth University
Poster #BS1
AN EXTERNAL COMPRESS-RELEASE PROTOCOL INDUCES DYNAMIC ELASTICITY IN A WORKING PORCINE BLADDER MODEL

2018

Zachary Cullingsworth, BS, Virginia Commonwealth University
AUTOMATED QUANTIFICATION OF LOW AMPLITUDE RHYTHMIC CONTRACTIONS (LARC) DURING URODYNAMICS: IDENTIFICATION OF A DETRUSOR OVERACTIVITY SUBGROUP?

2017

Ming Lu, MD
BIG POTASSIUM CHANNEL (BK) ACTIVITY IN FEMALE MOUSE BLADDER UMBRELLA CELLS IS ENHANCED BY BACTERIAL LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE: AN ACUTE HOST RESPONSE IN UTI PATHOGENESIS

2016

Georgi Petkov, PhD
SELECTIVE PHARMACOLOGICAL INHIBITION OF PHOSPHODIESTERASE TYPE-1 AS A NOVEL APPROACH TO CONTROL HUMAN DETRUSOR SMOOTH MUSCLE FUNCTION

2015

Georgi Petkov, PhD
THE ROLE OF BK CHANNELS AND CHOLINERGIC NEUROTRANSMISSION IN THE HYDROGEN SULFIDE-INDUCED GUINEA PIG DETRUSOR SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTIONS

2014

Georgi V. Petkov, PhD
FUNCTIONAL LINK BETWEEN MUSCARINIC RECEPTORS AND LARGE-CONDUCTANCE CA2+-ACTIVATED K+ CHANNELS IN FRESHLY-ISOLATED HUMAN DETRUSOR SMOOTH MUSCLE CELLS

2012

Bradley Gill, BSE
NEUROTROPHIN THERAPY IMPROVES RECOVERY OF THE NEUROMUSCULAR CONTINENCE MECHANISM FOLLOWING SIMULATED BIRTH INJURY IN RATS

2011

Vikas Tyagi, MD
LIPOSOMES ASSISTED BLADDER UPTAKE OF ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDES AMELIORATE SYMPTOMS OF DETRUSOR OVERACTIVITY IN RAT MODEL

2010

Ariana L. Smith, MD
THE EFFECTS OF ACUTE AND CHRONIC STRESS ON BLADDER STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

2009

Minoru Miyazato, MD, PhD
HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS VECTOR-MEDIATED GENE DELIVERLY OF GLUTAMIC ACID DECARBOXYLASE REDUCES DETRUSOR OVERACTIVITY IN SPINAL CORD INJURED RATS

2008

HaiHong Jiang, MD PhD, Cleveland, OH
DUAL SIMULATED CHILDBIRTH INJURIES RESULT IN SLOWED RECOVERY OF PUDENDAL NERVE AND URETHRAL FUNCTION

2007

Gopal Nand Gupta, MD, Baltimore, MD
INCREASED EFFICACY AND POTENCY OF CARBACHOL IN INDUCING INCREASES IN INTRACELLULAR CALCIUM ([CA2+]I) AND OUTWARD POTASSIUM CURRENTS (I0) IN OVERACTIVE BLADDER (OAB) AND INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS (IC) HUMA

2006

Vivian Cristofaro, PhD, Boston, MA
BLADDER SMOOTH MUSCLE CAVEOLAE DIFFERENTIALLY REGULATE SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION PATHWAYS

2005

Larissa V. Rodriguez, MD, Los Angeles, CA
NEW OBJECTIVE MEASURES TO QUANTIFY STRESS URINARY INCONTINENCE IN A NOVEL DURABLE ANIMAL MODEL OF INTRINSIC SPHINCTER DEFICIENCY

2003

Sophia Drinis, MD, Bloomsburg, PA

2003

Shing-Hwa Lu, MD, Pittsburgh, PA

2002

Katsumi Sasaki, MD, Pittsburgh, PA

2001

Toby C. Chai, MD, Baltimore, MD

2000

Teruhiko Yokoyama, MD, Pittsburgh, PA

1999

Naoki Yoshimura, MD, PhD, Pittsburgh, PA

1999

Teruhiko Yokoyama, MD, Pittsburgh, PA

1998

Suk Young Jung, MD

1997

John M. Park, MD, Ann Arbor, MI

1996

Peter Zvara, MD, Burlington, VT

1994

Larry Thomas Sirls II, MD, Royal Oak, MI

1993

Burkhard von Heyden, MD

1992

F. Trio-Rocha, MD