Congratulations to the Sarah Baskin Research Award winners: Dr Akash Bhakta, Dr Debbie Lee @DebbieLeeMD, Dr Emily Kivlehan @EmilyKivlehanMD, and Dr Kevin Huang. The hard work of all of the residents and fellows was evident in their presentations today! pic.twitter.com/xpuafCpiR6
— NU Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (@NorthwesternPMR) June 9, 2020
Congratulations are in order to Dr. Debbie Lee, who received a 1st place Sarah Baskin Research Award for her presentation today! Dr. Lee, along with other fellows and residents at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, conducted remote Zoom presentations today (June 10th, 2020) for this annual tradition showcasing residents’ and fellows’ scientific contributions at SRALab and Feinberg School of Medicine.
Dr. Lee presented work she performed in the Franz Lab of Regenerative Neurorehabilition, using different cell lines of human stem cell-derived neurons to model neurotrauma in vitro. She found that, as in human patient populations, different patient’s neurons showed distinctive and disparate outcome trajectories in response to identical trauma. These findings highlight the need for personalized and specific approaches to neurotrauma patients, and for careful attention to genetic factors when conducting neurotrauma research.
(photo from February ISPRM meeting in Orlando, as coronavirus safety measures prevented in-person presentations today)