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2023 – 2024 Residency Research Award Recipients

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Katharine Michel, MD

Project Title: "Discharge Home on Lovenox vs Apixaban as Extended VTE Prophylaxis after Radical Cystectomy"
Institution: The University of Pennsylvania
Mentor: Trinity Bivalacqua, MD, PhD
Sponsor: Merck and Co.

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Farnoosh Nik-Ahd, MD

Project Title: "Assessing the Use and Interpretation of Prostate-Specific Antigen Values in Transgender Women: Trends and Psychosocial Drivers"
Institution: The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco
Mentor: Matthew Cooperberg, MD
Sponsor: Robert J. Krane, MD, Urology Research Fund

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Vadim Osadchiy, MD

Project Title: "Multiomics Analysis of Varicocele Repair on the Seminal Microbiome"
Institution: The Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles
Mentor: Sriram Eleswarapu, MD, PhD
Sponsor: Russell Scott, Jr., MD, Urology Research Fund

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Lina Posada, MD

Project Title: "Investigating the role of leptin in clear cell renal cell carcinoma and the obesity paradox"
Institution: Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Mentor: A. Ari Hakimi, MD
Sponsor: Merck and Co.

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Jason Scovell, MD, PhD

Project Title: "Identifying Novel pVHL Dependent Drivers Critical for Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma Oncogenesis"
Institution: Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Mentor: Abhishek Chakraborty, PhD
Sponsor: Russell Scott, Jr., MD, Urology Research Fund

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Mary Oakley Strasser, MD

Project Title: "Defining prostate cancer oncologic outcomes after partial gland ablation"
Institution: Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Mentor: Jim Hu, MD
Sponsor: Robert J. Krane, MD, Urology Research Fund