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Basic Science Podium Award

2024

Zhina Sadeghi, MD, University of California Irvine
1st Place, Podium #4
UNRAVELING THE URINARY INCONTINENCE PUZZLE: EXPLORING FEMALE URETHRAL CHANGES WITH AGING AS A CENTRAL ELEMENT IN URINARY INCONTINENCE

2024

Kourosh Kalayeh, PhD, University of Michigan
2nd Place (tie), Podium #5
HUMAN BLADDER PRESSURE MEASUREMENT WITH CONTRAST-ENHANCED ULTRASOUND: A PROOF OF CONCEPT

2024

Ashlee Caldwell, PhD, Laboratory of Ion Channel Research, Belgium
2nd Place (tie), Podium #7
UNIQUE SIGNALLING ACTIVITY IN UMBRELLA CELLS: FINDINGS FROM A NOVEL METHOD FOR IMAGING THE INTACT UROTHELIUMS

2023

Margot Damaser, PhD
1st Place, Podium #BS2
MEASUREMENT OF FELINE BLADDER PRESSURE AND VOLUME USING CATHETER-FREE WIRELESS INTRAVESICAL SENSOR

2023

Samuel Cornelius
2nd Place, Podium #BS8
ANTIGEN STABILIZED VACCINES AGAINST RECURRENT URINARY TRACT INFECTION

2023

Nicolas Montalbetti, PhD
3rd Place, Podium #BS5
TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR-4 EXPRESSED IN BLADDER SENSORY NEURONS MEDIATES SENSORY SYMPTOMS DURING UTI

2022

Andrea M. Sartori
1st Place (tie), Podium #6
SUBPOPULATIONS OF NEURONS OF THE PONTINE MICTURITION CENTER PROJECT TO DISTINCT REGIONS OF THE SPINAL CORD AND PLAY DEFINITE ROLES IN LOWER URINARY TRACT FUNCTION

2022

Nicole Roselli, MD, MBA
1st Place (tie), Podium #10
ABSENCE OF PANNEXIN 1 CHANNELS ATTENUATES THE EARLY EFFECTS OF DIABETES ON MOUSE BLADDER FUNCTION

2022

Alec Szlachta-McGinn, MD
3rd Place, Podium #3
VIRULENT URINARY FUNGAL STRAINS IN INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS/BLADDER PAIN SYNDROME INCREASE HOST INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE AND INDUCE UROTHELIAL CELL KILLING

2021

Claire C. Yang, MD
1st Place, Poster #5
EARLY CHEMODENERVATION OF DETRUSOR AFTER SPINAL CORD INJURY CAN REDUCE BLADDER FIBROSIS AND HYPERTROPHY

2020

Julie Christianson, PhD
1st Place, Poster #8
REDUCED HIPPOCAMPAL VOLUME AND METABOLIC RESPONSE TO ADULT STRESS EXPOSURE IN A MOUSE MODEL OF UROGENITAL HYPERSENSITIVITY

2020

Elishia Renee Mckay
2nd Place, Poster #9
PURINERGIC RECEPTORs P2Y12 AND A2B ANTAGONISTICALLY REGULATE BLADDER FUNCTION

2020

Loren Ketai, MD
3rd Place, Poster #10
URINARY TIMP-2 IS SIGNIFICANTLY ASSOCIATED WITH POOR BLADDER COMPLIANCE AND UPPER URINARY TRACT DAMAGE IN ADULT PATIENTS WITH SPINA BIFIDA

2019

Stephen A. Zderic, MD
1st Place, Poster #4
OPTOGENETIC INHIBITION OF NEURONS EXPRESSING CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE (CRH) IN BARRINGTON'S NUCLEUS FACILITATES MICTURITION

2019

A. Lenore Ackerman, MD, PhD
2nd Place, Poster #6
TEMPORAL DYNAMICS OF THE GENITOURINARY MICROBIOME

2019

Larissa V. Rodriguez, MD, FPMRS
3rd Place, Poster #5
CEFTRIAXONE INHIBITS STRESS-INDUCED HYPERALGESIA AND ALTERS CEREBRAL MICTURITION AND NOCICEPTIVE CIRCUITS: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF CHRONIC PELVIC PAIN (MAPP) RESEARCH NETWORK STUDY

2018

Toby C. Chai, MD
1st Place, Poster #2
OVEREXPRESSION OF ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ß IN UROTHELIUM PROTECTS AGAINST UROPATHOGENIC E. COLI URINARY TRACT INFECTION

2018

Anna S. Nagle, PhD
2nd Place, Poster #9
QUANTIFICATION OF BLADDER WALL MICROMOTION DURING URODYNAMICS IN A NOVEL ANESTHETIZED PIG MODEL WITH LOW AMPLITUDE RHYTHMIC CONTRACTIONS USING M-MODE ULTRASOUND

2018

Julie Christianson, PhD
3rd Place, Poster #6
STRESS-INDUCED BLADDER HYPERSENSITIVITY, HINDPAW ALLODYNIA, AND DEPRESSION-LIKE BEHAVIOR IN AN ANXIETY-PRONE STRAIN OF MICE

2017

Melissa Talbert Sanford, MD, USC Department of Urology
1st Place, Poster #BS7

2017

Vivian Cristofaro, PhD, VA Boston Healthcare System
2nd Place, Poster #BS10

2017

Yingchun Zhang, PhD, University of Houston
3rd Place, Poster #BS3