Digestive Disease Week® (DDW) is excited to congratulate the recipients of the DDW Basic Science Travel Awards. Twenty basic scientists were selected from a pool of applicants to receive a $1,000 travel grant to attend DDW 2018.
Expert members of DDW’s sponsoring societies worked together to select the award winners, who are early-career researchers serving as first or presenting authors of basic science abstracts accepted for presentation at DDW 2018. A full list of the award winners can be found below.
Attending DDW 2018? Be sure to attend the below winners’ abstract presentations and attending the DDW Basic Science Quick Shots Session on Saturday, June 2, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in room 143 of the convention center to learn more about their innovative work. Don’t miss this opportunity to meet and congratulate these pioneering researchers.
DDW 2018 Basic Science Travel Award Winners
Jonathan T. Busada, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institutes of Health
Alexandra Chang-Graham, BA, MD/PhD Student, Baylor College of Medicine
Amy C. Engevik, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Jennifer C. Jones, MS, PhD Candidate, University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus
Runping Liu, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Virginia Commonwealth University
Vanessa Mitsialis, MD, Fellow in Gastroenterology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Ranjan Preet, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Kansas
Nicolette J. Rodriguez, MD, MPH, Resident Physician/PGY-2, Yale New Haven Hospital
Joshua Royal, MSc, PhD Student, University of Louisville
James K. Ruffle, MBBS, Trainee Medical Doctor and Honorary Research Fellow in Neurogastroenterology, Wingate Institute of Neurogastroenterology, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry
Benjamin D. Shogan, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery, University of Chicago
Joshua J. Thompson, BS, MD/PhD Student, Vanderbilt University
Werna Uniken Venema, MS, MD/PhD Candidate, UMCG
Elizabeth J. Videlock, MD, Clinical Instructor of Medicine, UCLA
Praveen Vimalathas, BS, Lab Manager/Research Assistant, Massachusetts General Hospital
Banrida Wahlang, PhD, Postdoctoral Associate, University of Louisville
Ting Yu, PhD, Research Scholar, University of Michigan
Tianhao Zhou, BS, PhD Student, Texas A&M Health Science Center
Iris Zhuang, BS, Medical Student, Baylor College of Medicine
Winnie Zou, BS,MD/PhD Student, Baylor College of Medicine
More Basic Science at DDW 2018
Interested in exploring more Basic Science at DDW 2018? Use DDW Tracks to search all sessions across all societies for the Basic Science sessions that interest you. Read below for a sampling of high-level Basic Science session details:
| Session Title | Session Type | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Mechanisms of Intestinal Injury and Repair | Research Symposium | May 2 |
| Obesity and the Microbiome | Clinical Symposium | May 2 |
| Cancer Therapeutics and Mechanisms of Resistance | Research Forum | May 2 |
| Tuft and Paneth Cells: Dueling Roles in Innate and Acquired Immunity | State-of-the-Art Lecture | May 3 |
| Developmental Biology of the Gastrointestinal Tract | Research Symposium | May 3 |
| AGA Basic Science Plenary | Plenary Session | May 3 |
| A Primer on Animal Models for IBD | Breakfast with the Expert | May 3 |
| Gastrointestinal Stem Cell Plasticity | Research Symposium | May 4 |
| Novel Approaches to Developing GI Cancer Models | Meet-the-Professor Luncheons | May 4 |
| Stem Cell Biology | Research Forum | May 4 |
| Microbial-Induced Alterations of Intestinal Transport | State-of-the-Art Lecture | May 5 |
| Inflammatory, Proliferative and Adaptive Responses of the Intestinal Epithelium | Research Forum | May 5 |
| The Microbiome-Gut-Brain Axis in Health and Disease | Research Forum | May 5 |
