Basic Science Poster Award
2023 — Session One
Ilaha Isali, MD, Case Western Reserve University
Poster #BS18
MODULATION OF TISSUE REPAIR VIA M2 MACROPHAGE SUBTYPES IN VITRO
2023 — Session Two
Star Okolie, University of Texas at Dallas, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Poster #BS41
DEFINING THE DYNAMICS OF UROGENITAL MICROBIOME STRUCTURE IN POSTMENOPAUSAL WOMEN
2022 — Session One
Betsy Salazar, PhD, Houston Methodist Research Institute
Poster #BS22
NOVEL SITE SPECIFIC NEUROMODULATION TO MAP THE VENTRAL SPINAL CIRCUITRY COORDINATING THE NEURAL CONTROL OF MICTURITION AFTER SEMI-CHRONIC SPINAL CORD INJURY
2022 — Session Two
Sarah Maxwell, College of Pharmacy, Univ. Tennessee Health Science Center
Poster #BS39
KV7 CHANNEL ACTIVATION RESULTS IN ATTENUATION OF RAT URINARY BLADDER SMOOTH MUSCLE EXCITABILITY AND CONTRACTILITY
2021 — Session One
Raymond Xu, MD, Wake Forest Baptist Health
BLADDER HYDRODISTENTION DOES NOT SIGNIFICANTLY CHANGE GENE EXPRESSION IN THE BLADDER MUCOSA: VALIDATION OF THE USE OF SAMPLES FROM NON-HYDRODISTENDED PATIENTS AS CONTROLS
2021 — Session Two
Sundharamani Venkitapathi, The University of Texas At Dallas
ROLE OF KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE TYPE 3 FIMBRIAE IN ASSOCIATION AND INVASION OF HUMAN BLADDER EPITHELIAL CELLS
2020 — Session One
Zhina Sadeghi, MD, Case Western Reserve University
Poster #2
CHRONOLOGICAL STUDY OF MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS (MSCS), AND MSC-TREATED INJURED URETHRAL TISSUE CROSS-TALK IN RAT BIRTH TRAUMA URINARY INCONTINENCE MODEL: A HIGH ALTITUDE GENE ANALYSIS
2020 — Session Two
Martin Keung, BSc, University of British Columbia
Poster #37
URODYNAMIC STUDIES AND TELEMETRIC MONITORING OF BLADDER FUNCTION AFTER TRAUMATIC THORACIC SPINAL CORD INJURY IN MINIPIGS
2019 — Session One
Amy Dobberfuhl, MD, MS, Stanford University
Poster #BS20
AMBULATORY AND EX-VIVO EFFECT OF INTRADETRUSOR iPSC-DERIVED HUMAN PROGENITOR SMOOTH MUSCLE CELLS IN A RAT MODEL OF RADIATION INDUCED BLADDER DYSFUNCTION
2019 — Session Two
Karthik Urs, BS, MS, University of Texas At Dallas
Poster #BS31
THE PARADOX OF RAPID GROWTH AND INDUCTION OF STRESS RESPONSES OF UROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI: INDUCTION OF THE NITROGEN-REGULATED (NTR) RESPONSE
2018 — Session One
Haeyeong Lee, PhD
Poster #BS11
THE ROLE OF PDGFRa+ CELLS IN CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE-INDUCED DETRUSOR OVERACTIVITY
2018 — Session Two
Nathan R. Tykocki, PhD
Poster #BS19
SEARCHING FOR THE SOURCE: MACROSCOPIC MEASUREMENT OF CALCIUM SIGNALS AND MICROMOTIONS IN THE MOUSE URINARY BLADDER
2017 — Session One
Haeyeong Lee, PhD, University of Nevada
Poster #BS3
SPINAL CORD INJURY AND DETRUSOR PDGFR?+ CELLS
2017 — Session Two
Randy Vince, MD, Virginia Commonwealth University Division of Urology
Poster #BS36
A NOVEL MECHANISM FOR DETRUSOR UNDER-ACTIVITY MEDIATED BY MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN PHOSPHORYLATION AND AMP-DEPENDENT KINASE
2016 — Session One
Claire Doyle, PhD, Boston Children's Hospital & Harvard Medical School
Poster #BS18
INOSINE ATTENUATES SPONTANEOUS AND EVOKED ACTIVITY IN NEUROGENIC BLADDER THROUGH AN ADENOSINE RECEPTOR-MEDIATED PATHWAY
2016 — Session One
A. Lenore Ackerman, MD, PhD, UCLA
Poster #BS13
IDENTIFICATION OF A DIVERSE FUNGAL COMMUNITY (“MYCOBIOME”) IN THE NORMAL FEMALE HUMAN LOWER URINARY TRACT
2016 — Session Two
Alvaro Munoz, PhD, Houston Methodist Research Institute
Poster #BS24
LOCALIZED INHIBITION OF P2X7R IMPROVES GAP43 SPREADING, LOCOMOTION, AND BLADDER FUNCTION IN SCI RATS
2016 — Session Two
Rosalyn Adam, PhD, Boston Children's Hospital & Harvard Med School
Poster #BS25
NEUROPILIN 2 DELETION ENHANCES DETRUSOR CONTRACTILITY UNDER CONDITIONS OF BLADDER OUTLET OBSTRUCTION
2015
C.R. Powell, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN
Poster #BS9
WIRELESS URODYNAMIC DEVICE DEMONSTRATES SUBMUCOSAL SENSOR IS COMPARABLE TO URODYNAMIC CATHETER
2015
Zhina Sadeghi, Department of Urology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
Poster #BS14
THE INTERACTION BETWEEN URINARY INCONTINENCE (UI), RECURRENT LOWER URINARY TRACT INFECTION (UTI), AND AGING IN MICE
2015
Jayoung Kim, PhD, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Poster #BS19
NONINVASIVE BIOMARKER CANDIDATES OF INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS/PAINFUL BLADDER SYNDROME
2015
Stacey Schutte, PhD, Emory University SOM, Atlanta, GA
Poster #BS32
ENGINEERED VAGINAL TISSUE: TOWARDS AN AUTOLOGOUS GRAFT FOR PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE
2014 — Session One
Sandra M. Gomez Amaya, DVM
Poster #BS1
NEUROMUSCULAR NICOTINIC RECEPTORS MEDIATE BLADDER CONTRACTIONS FOLLOWING BLADDER REINNERVATION WITH SOMATIC TO AUTONOMIC NERVE TRANSFER AFTER DENERVATION BY SPINAL ROOT TRANSECTION
2014 — Session One
Neil Lamarre, PhD
Poster #BS4
EVIDENCE OF NEUROGENIC BLADDER DYSFUNCTION IN A MOUSE MODEL OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
2014 — Session One
Qi−Xiang Song, MD
Poster #BS8
LONG−TERM EFFECTS OF SIMULATED CHILDBIRTH INJURY ON FUNCTION AND INNERVATION OF THE URETHRA
2014 — Session Two
Kangli Deng, MD
Poster #BS41
SECRETOME OF MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS FACILITATES RECOVERY FROM SIMULATED CHILDBIRTH INJURY
2014 — Session Two
Zhina Sadeghi, MD
Poster #BS43
PERIURETHRALLY IMPLANTED AFFINITY−BASED CCL7 RELEASING HYDROGELS FOR STIMULATING STEM CELL MIGRATION IN STRESS URINARY INCONTINENCE (SUI)
2014 — Session Two
Alvaro Munoz, PhD
Poster #BS46
EFFECTS OF UROTHELIAL P2X3 RECEPTOR INHIBITION ON RAT BLADDER CONTRACTILITY
2013 — Session One
First Prize: Lysanne Campeau
LACK OF NICOTINAMIDE MONONUCLEOTIDE
2013 — Session One
Second Prize: Duane Hickling
THE ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE CATHELICIDIN
2013 — Session Two
First Prize: Byoung Koh
FUNCTIONAL ROLE OF PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR - ALPHA
2013 — Session Two
Second Prize: Kathleen Conneil
KNOCKDOWN OF HOXALL GENE EXPRESSION
2012
H. Henry Lai, MD
THE ROLE OF METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR SUBTYPE 5 (MGLUR5) IN MICTURITION AND BLADDER PAIN
2012
Michael D. Byrne, MD
A NEW METHOD FOR OBJECTIVE ANALYSES OF DETRUSOR RYTHMIC CONTRACTION
2012
Zongwei Wang, PhD
INHIBITION OF TNF-Α IMPROVES THE BLADDER DYSFUNCTION THAT IS ASSOCIATED WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES IN MICE
2012
Matthew O. Fraser, PhD
REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES IN THE SACRAL SPINAL CORD CONTRIBUTE TO NEUROGENIC BLADDER DYSFUNCTION IN SUPRASACRAL CHRONIC SPINAL CORD INJURY
2011
Andrew Horowitz, MD
NEUROGENIC BLADDER CAUSES MARKED BLADDER REMODELING IN MICE WITH EXPERIMENTAL AUTOIMMUNE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS
2011
Phillip Smith, MD
MATURATION, NOT AGING, IS ASSOCIATED WITH ALTERED URINE STORAGE AND VOIDING IN AN AGING MOUSE CYSTOMETRIC MODEL
2011
Vivian Cristofaro PhD
ALTERED CAVEOLAE-MEDIATED PURINERGIC SIGNALING IN SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RATS WITH DETRUSOR OVERACTIVITY
2011
Yu-Chao Hsu, MD
IN VITRO CHARACTERIZATION OF PHENOTYPIC DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PRIMARY CULTURED RAT AND HUMAN BLADDER UROTHELIAL CELL
2010
Vivian Cristofaro PhD
CALCIUM SENSING RECEPTOR EXPRESSED IN INTERSTITIAL CELLS MODULATES BLADDER FUNCTION
2010
Bradley C. Gill, BSE
EFFECTS OF OBESITY AND TYPE 2 DIABETES ON RECOVERY FROM PUDENDAL NERVE INJURY IN FEMALE ZUCKER RATS
2010
Françoise Valentini MD, PhD
CAN MODELIZED ANALYSIS OF PRESSURE-FLOW STUDIES IMPROVE THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE NERVOUS CONTROL OF BOTH BLADDER AND URETHRA?
2009
Clinton Collins, MD
SPONTANEOUS RHYTHMIC CONTRACTION IN DETRUSOR SMOOTH MUSCLE IS CONTROLLED BY CYCLOOXYGENASE PRODUCTS RELEASED BY INTERSTITIAL CELLS OF CAJAL
2009
Peter Zvara, MD, PhD
NON-ANESTHETIZED MOUSE MODEL FOR RECORDING SENSORY URINARY BLADDER ACTIVITY
2009
Salah Baker, PhD
FUNCTIONAL ROLE OF STRETCH-DEPENDENT POTASSIUM /TREK-1 CHANNELS IN PARTIAL BLADDER OUTLET OBSTRUCTION
2008
Vivian Cristofaro, PhD
DETRUSOR OVERACTIVITY IN SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RATS IS ASSOCIETED WITH ALTERATIONS IN CAVEOLAE-MEDIATED SIGNALING EVENTS
2008
Christian Gratzke, MD
CHRONIC SOY AND PHYTOESTROGEN TREATMENT LEADS TO SIGNIFICANT FUNCTIONAL AND MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES IN THE URETHRA OF FEMALE NON-HUMAN PRIMATES
2008
Yasuhiro Yamada, MD
NEUROSELECTIVE ELECTROSTIMULATION OF THE BLADDER AFFERENT PATHWAYS INDUCES C-FOS EXPRESSION IN THE REGIONS OF THE SPINE SPECIFIC FOR BLADDER AFFERENT C AND A-DELTA FIBERS
2007
Zhonghuang Yang, MD, PhD
DIFFERENTIAL VULNERABILITIES OF URETHRAL AFFERENTS IN DIABETES AND FINDING OF A NOVEL URETHRA-TO-URETHRA REFLEX
2007
Una Lee, MD
URINARY INCONTINENCE, BLADDER DYSFUNCTION AND PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE IN LYSYL OXIDASE LIKE-1 (LOXL1) MUTANT MICE: A COMPLETE ANIMAL MODEL FOR FEMALE PELVIC FLOOR DISORDERS?
2007
Yan Sun, PhD
LINK BETWEEN CYTOKINE EXPRESSION AND PURINERGIC SIGNALING IN BLADDER UROTHELIAL CELLS (BUC)
2004
Gina Angela Defreitas, MD, Downsview, ON
REFINING THE DIAGNOSIS OF FEMALE OUTLET OBSTRUCTION: A COMPARISON OF PRESSURE-FLOW STUDY PARAMETERS IN CLINICALLY OBSTRUCTED WOMEN TO THOSE OF NORMAL CONTROLS
2002
Shing-Hwa Lu, MD, Pittsburgh, PA
2002
Kyu-Sung Lee, MD, PhD, Kangnam-Ku, Seoul, South Korea
2000
Kyoko Sakamoto, MD, San Diego, CA
2000
Michael E. Franks, MD, Midlothian, VA
2000
Kevin Carlson, MD, New York, NY