College of Osteopathic Medicine announces recipients of Dean's Research Fellowships for 2012

The ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ College of Osteopathic Medicine  Research Committee would like to congratulate the following COM students who have received the 2012 Dean's Research Fellowship:

  1. Patricia Ruth Atchinson (Class of 2014)
    Project title: Assessing the variability in ASA physical classification
    Mentor: Angus Christie, MD, Maine Medical Center
     
  2. Caitlin Buttaro (Class of 2015)
    Project title: Testing VT201's ability to improve structural integrity of epithelium in human cell lines
    Mentor: Johannes Fruehauf, MD PhD, ViThera Laboratories
     
  3. Nicholas Church (Class of 2015):
    Project title: Development of a bioinformatics system for research on brain function in rats
    Mentor: David Mokler, PhD, ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏCOM
     
  4. Zack DeCant (Class of 2015):
    Project title: Comparison of spontaneous movement frequency in opioid_exposed infants treated postnatally with methadone and morphine
    Mentor: Marie Hayes, PhD, University of Maine – Orono
     
  5. Tina Jumani (Class of 2015):
    Project title: Surveying medical provider attitudes towards donor breast milk for extremely lowbirth weight infants
    Mentor: Sarbattama Sen, MD, Tufts Medical Center
     
  6. Robert L. Zondervan (Class of 2015):
    Project title: Dynamic properties of the functional spine unit
    Mentor: Norman "Peter" Reeves, PhD, Michigan State School of Medicine