TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE 2024

Translational Science 2025 Top 50 Posters

Please find the TS25 top 50 posters below. These posters include the highest scoring trainee and non-trainee abstracts for this year’s annual meeting. You can view these posters in the International Terrance Foyer during breakfast hours on Tuesday, April 15 through Thursday, April 17. 

Additionally, please join us for the Oral Poster Sessions on Wednesday, April 16 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM EDT. 

Top 50 Posters

Poster Number: 1                                        

Poster Title: Projecting Outcomes in Respiratory Technology Dependent Children After Serious Illness (Project ORCAS)

Presenting Author: Julia A. Heneghan

Oral Poster Session: 1 - Georgetown East

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Poster Number: 2

Poster Title: Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome: Phenotypic Presentation, Comorbidity Risk, and Medical Service Utilization in the United States

Presenting Author: Rachael E. Bishop

Oral Poster Session: 3 - Jefferson East & West 

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Poster Number: 3 

Poster Title: Feasibility and accuracy of a portable ultrasound stadiometer for in-home pediatric height measurement

Presenting Author: Emily E. Hohman

Oral Poster Session: 3 - Jefferson East & West

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Poster Number: 4

Poster Title: Modernizing Clinical Research: An Administrative Approach to Unlocking the Potential of Decentralized Clinical Trials

Presenting Author: Jerry Tribout

Oral Poster Session: 1 - Georgetown East

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Poster Number: 5

Poster Title: Aurora Kinase Inhibition Synergizes with Fanconi Anemia Pathway Defects to Limit Tumorigenesis

Presenting Author: Emily Stahl

Oral Poster Session: 2 - Georgetown West

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Poster Number:  6

Poster Title: Exploring Data Scraping on ClinicalTrials.gov to Identify Key Variables to Include in an EHR-based recruitment tool

Presenting Author: Klara Klein

Oral Poster Session: 3 - Jefferson East & West

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Poster Number: 7

Poster Title: THE UCLA CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE INSTITUTE (CTSI) INSPIRED WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PATHWAY PROGRAMS              

Presenting Author: Laurie Shaker-Irwin

Oral Poster Session: 4 - International Ballroom East

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Poster Number: 8

Poster Title: A DECADE OF EXCELLENCE AND IMPACT: The UCLA CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE INSTITUTE - RESEARCH ASSOCIATES PROGRAM (CTSI-RAP)

Presenting Author: Laurie Shaker-Irwin

Oral Poster Session: 4 - International Ballroom East

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Poster Number: 9

Poster Title: Empowering Communities through Theater Testing: Engaging Promotoras de Salud in Substance Use Disorder Research on the US-Mexico Border

Presenting Author: Cynthia Killough

Oral Poster Session: 4 - International Ballroom East

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Poster Number: 10

Poster Title: “I liked having my voice heard:” Co-designing an adolescent-centered contraceptive counseling training program for primary care clinicians with teen, caregiver, and clinician advisory boards

Presenting Author: Bianca Allison      

Oral Poster Session: 3 - Jefferson East & West

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Poster Number: 11

Poster Title: Using human-centered design to improve cervical cancer screening for people experiencing homelessness

Presenting Author: Lara Balian

Oral Poster Session: 3 - Jefferson East & West

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Poster Number: 12

Poster Title: Reimagining Postpartum Care to Advance Health Equity - A Qualitative Study with Black Birthing People and Health Workers

Presenting Author: Christina Marea

Oral Poster Session: 2 - Georgetown West

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Poster Number: 13

Poster Title: Piloting a Novel Community-Engaged Bloodborne Infection and Drug Supply Surveillance System to Improve Harm Reduction Services for People Who Inject Drugs in Kentucky

Presenting Author: Hilary Surratt

Oral Poster Session: 5 - Lincoln East & West

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Poster Number: 14

Poster Title: Staying Connected: Community Engagement for Enhanced HIV Care Outcomes

Presenting Author: Bridget Hawryluk

Oral Poster Session: 1 - Georgetown East

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Poster Number: 15

Poster Title: The FAST PACE Toolkit: A Tool to Foster State-Wide Translation Science

Presenting Author: Athena McKay      

Oral Poster Session: 1 - Georgetown East

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Poster Number: 16

Poster Title: The effect of providing genetic risk information on lifestyle behaviors in African Americans

Presenting Author: Jennifer Caldwell

Oral Poster Session: 3 - Jefferson East & West

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Poster Number: 17                                      

Poster Title: Optimizing Trauma Prognostication via Machine Learning: Automating Frailty Detection in Geriatric Trauma Patients

Presenting Author: Maya Carter

Oral Poster Session: 3 - Jefferson East & West

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Poster Number: 18                                      

Poster Title: Leveraging artificial intelligence to summarize abstracts in lay language for increasing research accessibility and transparency

Presenting Author: Cathy Shyr

Oral Poster Session: 5 - Lincoln East & West

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Poster Number: 19                                      

Poster Title: Predicting daily PM2.5 in Mexico City: a hybrid spatiotemporal modeling approach

Presenting Author: Mike Z. He

Oral Poster Session: 2 - Georgetown West

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Poster Number: 20

Poster Title: Decoding Auto-immunity: Uncovering Pre-Onset Infectious Disease Patterns of Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies

Presenting Author: Tayler Fearn

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Poster Number: 22

Poster Title: Advancing Clinical Trial Reporting and AI Integration: Optimizing Protocol Data Extraction Using LLMs and Regulatory Best Practices

Presenting Author: Ramya Sri Baluguri

Oral Poster Session: 4 - International Ballroom East

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Poster Number: 23

Poster Title: Generative Artificial Intelligence for Automated Unstructured MRI Data Extraction in Prostate Cancer Care

Presenting Author: Aidan Pace

Oral Poster Session: 4 - International Ballroom East

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Poster Number: 24

Poster Title: Key Brain Region Identification in Obesity Prediction with Structural MRI and Probabilistic Uncertainty Aware Model

Presenting Author: Walia Farzana      

Oral Poster Session: 3 - Jefferson East & West

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Poster Number: 25

Poster Title: The Association of a Documented Prescription of Medication for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) During Pregnancy with Maternal Outcomes

Presenting Author: Ashley Hailer

Oral Poster Session: 1 - Georgetown East

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Poster Number: 26

Poster Title: Evaluating AI Models Trained with Varying Amounts of Expert Feedback for Chronic Graft-Versus-Host Disease Skin Assessment in Photos of Patients with Diverse Skin Tones

Presenting Author: Andrew McNeil    

Oral Poster Session: 5 - Lincoln East & West

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Poster Number: 27                                      

Poster Title: Automated IRB Compliance and Secure Data Delivery in i2b2

Presenting Author: Daniella Garofalo/Praveen Angyan

Oral Poster Session: 4 - International Ballroom East

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Poster Number: 28

Poster Title: Using AI to Predict Molecular Subtype from Histopathology Slides in Endometrial Cancer

Presenting Author: Vincent Wagner

Oral Poster Session: 1 - Georgetown East

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Poster Number: 29                                      

Poster Title: A Pilot Study of DataDay: Daily support for people with dementia

Presenting Author: Hafsah Umar

Oral Poster Session: 2 - Georgetown West

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Poster Number: 30                                      

Poster Title: Extracellular Vesicle Metabolic Protein Changes During Ischemic Stroke

Presenting Author: Amanda Trout

Oral Poster Session: 5 - Lincoln East & West

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Poster Number: 31                                      

Poster Title: Enhancing the Clinical Utility of Whole-Genome Sequencing for Pharmacogenomic Clinical Decision Support

Presenting Author: Lusi Zhang

Oral Poster Session: 1 - Georgetown East

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Poster Number: 32                                      

Poster Title: Investigating the Importance and Function of ENL and AF9 Domains in MLL-ENL and MLL-AF9 Leukemia

Presenting Author: Franchesca Franzen

Oral Poster Session: 1 - Georgetown East

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Poster Number: 33                      

Poster Title: Effect of Ketogenic, Mediterranean or Plant-Based Low-Fat Diets on Moderate Weight Loss-Induced Improvements in Skeletal Muscle Insulin Sensitivity in People with Metabolically Unhealthy Obesity

Presenting Author: Max C. Petersen

Oral Poster Session: 1 - Georgetown East

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Poster Number: 34                                      

Poster Title: Cognitive models of reading are also models of the brain: identifying the neural correlates of a computational model of reading

Presenting Author: Ryan Staples

Oral Poster Session: 2 - Georgetown West

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Poster Number: 35                                      

Poster Title: High throughput screens identify genotype-specific therapeutics for channelopathies

Presenting Author: Christian Egly

Oral Poster Session: 5 - Lincoln East & West

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Poster Number: 36                                      

Poster Title: Kidney MiRNA Expression in BTBR ob/ob Mice at a Critical Time Point in Disease Development and Progression

Presenting Author: Dr. Sadaf Ghaderzadeh

Oral Poster Session: 2 - Georgetown West

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Poster Number: 37                                      

Poster Title: Preclinical Modeling of HPV-associated Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Presenting Author: Albert Han

Oral Poster Session: 4 - International Ballroom East

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Poster Number: 38                                      

Poster Title: Biomarkers and Neurocognitive Impairment in Traumatic Brain Injury Patients

Presenting Author: Tanlix Bartolomei-Traviza

Oral Poster Session: 2 - Georgetown West

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Poster Number: 39                                      

Poster Title: Nanoscale imaging of pT217-tau in aged rhesus macaque entorhinal and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex: Evidence of interneuronal trafficking and early-stage neurodegeneration

Presenting Author: Dibyadeep Datta

Oral Poster Session: 2 - Georgetown West

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Poster Number: 40                               

Poster Title: Impact of Feminizing Hormone Therapy on Rectal Mucosal HIV Target Cells in Thai TGWSM       

Presenting Author: Jadah Keith

Oral Poster Session: 5 - Lincoln East & West

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Poster Number: 41                                                      

Poster Title: Elucidating the altered metabolism of NAD+ in the selective targeting of glioblastoma with the NQO1- activated drug β-lapachone

Presenting Author: Bruce Chang-Gu

Oral Poster Session: 5 - Lincoln East & West

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Poster Number: 42                                      

Poster Title: Gestational diabetes mellitus shares genetic risk factors with type 1 and type 2 diabetes and is predicted by diabetes polygenic scores

Presenting Author: Jessica LG Winters

Oral Poster Session: 5 - Lincoln East & West

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Poster Number: 43                                      

Poster Title: Calcium Channel Blockers for Treatment of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

Presenting Author: Destiny Lawler

Oral Poster Session: 2 - Georgetown West

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Poster Number: 44                                      

Poster Title: Polycomb Group Protein Yin Yang 1 controls DNA Methylation in T Cell Development

Presenting Author: Yinghua Wang

Oral Poster Session: 1 - Georgetown East

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Poster Number: 45                      

Poster Title: Off-Label Prescription of Common Antidepressants: Examination of Evidence Available to Clinicians

Presenting Author: Reem Alharithi     

Oral Poster Session: 4 - International Ballroom East

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Poster Number: 46                                      

Poster Title: Do we know it when we see it? Moving towards a systematized identification of translational science

Presenting Author: Melissa D. Vaught

Oral Poster Session: 4 - International Ballroom East

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Poster Number: 47                                      

Poster Title: A CTS Approach to Golden Allies: Merging Adoptive Cell Therapy and Nanotechnology in the Fight Against Brain Tumors

Presenting Author: John Figg

Oral Poster Session: 5 - Lincoln East & West

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Poster Number: 48                                      

Poster Title: Extracellular Vesicles as Senolytic Drug Delivery Vehicles for Diabetic Kidney Disease

Presenting Author: Maya Learmonth

Oral Poster Session: 3 - Jefferson East & West

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Poster Number: 49                                                      

Poster Title: Perinatal opioid exposure compromises placental structure and alters immune function at the maternal-fetal interface

Presenting Author: Heather True

Oral Poster Session: 5 - Lincoln East & West

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