HPH NOWPoster Day Winners Announced
The winners of the annual Poster and Exhibit Day have been announced. This year's event took place on May 1 in the Kresge cafeteria. Posters and exhibits prepared by students or by a team on which a student was the first author and presenter were eligible for a $500 prize, as judged by the Faculty Council. Postdocs were eligible for a separate $500 prize.
Award-winner Phuong-son Nguyen (right)
- "CTLA4 haplotypes, UV-induced tolerance, and risk of nonmelanoma skin cancer" with lead author Marleen Marie Welsh of the Department of Environmental Health
- "Genome-wide analysis of survival in early-stage non-small cell lung cancer" with lead author Yen-Tsung Huang of the Department of Environmental Health
- "Critical roles of tissue-derived Th2 cytokines and myeloid PPARd in resident macrophage polarization and insulin sensitivity" with lead author Kihwa Kang of the Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases
- "Maternal asthma causes epigenetic changes of IL4 and IFN-g promoters in asthma-susceptible T cells" with lead author Phuong-son Nguyen of the Department of Environmental Health