GSRM News
GSRM News
Pedro Reyes Wins Award at SACNAS
Description: Pedro Reyes, from Cornell University, was awarded Best Poster in Health at the 2025 Society for Advancing Chicanos and Native Americans in Science Conference (SACNAS) in Columbus, Ohio for his research in the Justin Bosch Lab: "Hormonal Plot Twist: AI Tools Uncover Secret Hormone-Receptor Affairs."
Merit Ghodrat Wins Award at ABRCMS
Description: Merit Ghodrat, from University of California San Diego, was awarded Best Poster in Computational & Systems Biology at the 2025 Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists (ABRCMS) in San Antonio, Texas for his research in the Aaron Quinlan Lab and as an MD/PhD sponsored student: "Mitochondrial DNA Copy Number: A Family Affair?"
Zhiting Xu and Lola Maldonado Win Award at Undergraduate Research Symposium
Description: At the 2025 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium, Zhiting Xu from the University of Utah, was awarded Best in STEM for her research in the Tristani-Firouzi Lab: "Defining the Expression of Alternative Splice Variants in the Cardiac Transcription Factor NFATC1 in the Human Heart"
Description: At the 2025 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium, Lola Maldonado from Brown University, was awarded Honorable Mention for Social Sciences category for her research in the Debbink Lab: "Inversion and Preterm Birth Outcomes: Characterizing Exposure Windows Using Distributed Lag Modeling"
Award-Winning Research Demonstrates the Effectiveness of the GSRM Program
Description: At the Annual Society for Advancing Chicanos and Native Americans in Science Conference, Isabella Dinardo, a Senior at the University of Utah, was awarded Best Poster for her research about the effectiveness of the GSRM program. Her findings demonstrated trainees participating in the GSRM program reported an increase in confidence in technical skills and genomics knowledge. In addition, targeted interventions and tailored mentorship led to an increased sense of belonging in the genomics field. Introducing a wide range of students to genomics may serve as a catalyst for building the workforce and advancing the field. Together, the improvements reflect the GSRM’s program effectiveness in preparing scholars for STEM careers.
Click here to watch Isabella's presentation.
