Basic Science Podium Award
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